Paper Mache Animal Sculptures

Paper Mache Horse, Day 12

ShareIt’s finally looking like a horse! It’s been almost two weeks already. Here’s what I did yesterday and today: Rebuilt the face with Super Sculpey Covered the plastic clay with one to two layers of paper mache Added the mane and tail Getting Both Sides The Same I have a hard time getting my sculptures [...]

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Paper Mache Horse, Day 10

ShareNow I know why this is the first time (and perhaps the last time) that I show you a project before it’s finished. Here it is Day 10 already, and my paper mache horse isn’t done. But I am happy to say there are a lot of lessons learned with this project, and I’ll be [...]

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Paper Mache Horse, Day 6

ShareI can see now that I really need to build a solar dryer if I’m going to continue making larger paper mache animal sculptures. It’s warm enough on my front porch to make wild yeast happy (that’s why paper mache paste gets that watery grey liquid on top if you leave it out for a [...]

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Paper Mache Horse, Day 4

ShareOops. I missed a day in this series because the paper mache horse had to spend the night in the ER with a cast on her ankles. The plaster board legs were, (I now realize), a bad idea. Fortunately, even when things break with paper mache you can almost always fix it. The water in [...]

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Paper Mache Horse, Day 2…

ShareYesterday I started to make a paper mache horse. (See the first post here). To be slightly more accurate, it will, I hope, look like an appaloosa colt when it’s finished. Yesterday I made a full-sized sketch and cut legs from plasterboard, using the sketch as a pattern. Today I used the same pattern to [...]

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Paper Mache Horse, Day 1

ShareA recent visitor asked for some tips for making a paper mache horse for her daughter. I’ve never made one, but I think my grandson would love one for his room, too. I chose an appaloosa foal for my sculpture for two reasons – I love the long legs on a new colt, even though [...]

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How to Make a Paper Mache Giraffe

ShareI’ve mentioned my giraffe in a previous post, but I skipped over the directions because this was an experiment for me. This is the largest paper mache sculpture I’ve ever done, and part of the process wasn’t very pretty. In fact, I stopped taking pictures before the project was complete. There were many times during [...]

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Paper Mache Animal Sculptures – Some Basic Tips

ShareI just completed a paper mache goat kid. It’s a study for a larger sculpture I hope to do this summer. I thought it would be a good subject to use to discuss the leg bones, and how they affect the finished sculpture. The Importance of Leg Bones… If you find a photo of an [...]

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Paper Mache Rabbit II

In a previous post I showed you how to make a little paper mache lop-eared bunny, using newspaper and masking tape to create the form. In this post I’ll show you how I created a Dutch rabbit using Super Sculpey as a temporary internal form.

I’ve been using the newspaper and masking tape technique for years, but it does have it’s drawbacks. It is cheap, but developing small details can be a real challenge. Creating details in Super Sculpey is easy – it’s a wonderful medium for sculpting, but I don’t like the “plastic” look of it after it’s been baked. For that reason, I decided to see what happens if

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How to Make a Paper Mache Bunny Sculpture

ShareProject Difficulty Level: Intermediate. This little paper mache lop-eared rabbit was a lot of fun to make, and only cost a few pennies in materials. I found some wonderful models for my bunny out at MyBunnyBlog.com, and if you happen to live in England you could actually adopt one of the beautiful rabbits they show [...]

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How to Make a Paper Mache Whale Wall Hanging

ShareProject Difficulty Level: Intermediate I found a photo of a rare white baby sperm whale in the wonderful book Sperm Whales by Jonathan Gordon. I couldn’t resist the idea of doing a sculptural portrait of this rare baby – is she Moby Dick’s grandaughter? During this project I encountered some challenges, and found a new [...]

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