Paper Mache Animal Sculptures

Paper Mache Bunny – 3 Experiments in One

Share This week I’ve been doing more experiments, while also playing around with modeling clay portraits. The portraits were just for me, because I’m trying to learn how to do it. You can see a few (and also see what our fellow sculptors have been up to this week) on our Daily Sculptors page. All [...]

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How to Make a Paper Mache Cat – Final Lesson

Share Well, it took a bit longer than usual, but my paper mache cat is done. I made a video showing how I painted my cat, (shown below). If your paper mache cat is a portrait of a different feline, or if you added less texture, you’ll want to use different colors and probably smaller [...]

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Paper Mache Book now Available in Kindle

ShareThis is just a quick announcement: My book, Make Animal Sculptures with Paper Mache Clay, now has a Kindle version. I think it looks best on the free Kindle for PC ap because the photos are nice and big, and they’re in color. Now that I’m finished with that little project, I can go back [...]

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Full-Sized Paper Mache Elephant Created for High School Opera Performance

ShareBack in May Dianna Duffy left this comment on our blog: Our high school was fortunate to receive the first license in the state of Mississippi this year (and across an 8 state area) to perform the Phantom of the Opera after being released to the public. After performing 5 nights locally to more than [...]

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Marusya, the T-Rex by Nick Allen – Guest Post

ShareToday’s guest post is by Nick Allen, a journalist who somehow found the time to build this fabulous T-Rex out of items scrounged from garbage bins. I love the bumps on her back. Nicholas tells us how he made her below… And now, here’s Nick: I made the T-Rex model using a simple interior wood frame, [...]

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Paper Mache Hippo Wall Hanging is Finished

ShareThis is the second in the planned series of display masks/wall art/? – I haven’t quite figured out what to call them yet (suggestions welcome, as always). I’m happy with both the cougar and the hippo. They’re now hanging on my office wall, and I enjoy their company. Black Bear is next. I’m also enjoying [...]

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Ginny’s Howlelujah Chorus.

ShareGinny, one of our regular readers, sent this photo in her latest email update – and I fell in love with it. I asked her if I could show you the piece here on my blog, just in case you haven’t signed up for her newsletter. She told me that: The piece has a cat, [...]

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Walrus is Done, Finally

ShareRemember the walrus I used as an experiment to see if you can use the paper mache clay in a mold? It took me a while to get this guy finished. (Arabian Oryx still isn’t done…) That’s the problem with my little experiments – once I know for sure the idea works, I get bored [...]

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Uh Oh – Tortoise is Sick…

ShareAt the beginning of summer I made a Ploughshare tortoise out of paper mache clay, to test how well it would hold up out in the garden. For many months it did just fine – through rain, downpours, sprinklers, and lightly filtered sun. He lived under a rose bush, since I didn’t think he’d want [...]

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Baby Chick Made With Paper Mache Clay

ShareI started this project to test a modification to the paper mache clay recipe that was suggested by Ginny in a comment on our paper mache clay page. Her idea of substituting glycerin for the linseed oil in the recipe started a lot of activity in the comments section, so I just had to do [...]

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Colorful Paper Mache Giraffe “Painted” with Tissue Paper

ShareI absolutely had to show you this colorful giraffe, made by a class of grade school kids with a bit of help from a parent with carpentry skills. A few days ago we saw a fairly realistic (very buff) paper mache panther mascot made by 7th and 8th grade kids, with some help from a [...]

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My Paper Mache Book Project, Suggestions Please…

ShareThis morning I received a comment from a reader who has been searching for a pattern she could use to make a monkey or gorilla in paper mache, like the patterns I’ve been creating for the elephant, panda, and others here on this blog. Unfortunately, I haven’t made the pattern she’s looking for yet, and [...]

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“Ghost Cat” – Snow Leopard Sculpture

ShareThis is one BIG cat. 28″ long, 22″ high and 16″ wide. I really enjoy making the large sculptures, especially now that I’m using the home-made paper mache clay recipe, but really – what was I thinking? The snow leopard needs to be transported to Bellingham in time for the after-Thanksgiving art show. I’d better [...]

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Bobcat Sculpture

ShareThis sculpture is all about the spots. The bobcat is 21″ from nose to tail, 14″ high and 12″ wide. It was made with papier mache and paper clay over a wire, paper and masking tape form. Lately I’ve been using Dan Reeder’s method of creating the inside form. Dan’s the author of Papier-Mache Monsters, [...]

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Life-Sized Lion Cub Sculptures

ShareI’ve been working on a set of four large sculptures of lion cubs, and two of them are now finished. These two are playing with each other, in cat-like fashion. These are quite large – the sitting lion cub is 15″ high, 22″ long and 12″ wide. The upside-down cub is 14″ high, 26″ long [...]

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