Comments on: Paper Mache Horse, Day 2…

By: Jonni

Jonni — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:03:57 +0000

I like to use acrylic artists paint, myself. Let us know how your horse turns out.

By: hannah

hannah — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:28:10 +0000

hi i have home work at school i need to do i would love to make a ww1 cavelry horse what type of paint should i use

By: Jonni

Jonni — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 01:53:50 +0000

To answer that, I think I’d need to see exactly how your cardboard head is built. You’ll use tape somehow, but I don’t know exactly where the tape would go because I can’t see it.

By: Kay Harper

Kay Harper — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:14:54 +0000

I saw where you said to attach the horse head to the stick before beginning to add the paper mache. What is the best way to attach the cardboard head to the stick?

By: Jonni

Jonni — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:31:55 +0000

Hi Olivia. I tend to avoid balloons, because they’re rather hard to handle, and because you’re kind of stuck with their shape. I’d much rather build my entire sculpture’s armature with crumpled paper and masking tape. You can use a pattern inside a human form, just like I did with the horse, and that helps make sure your final sculpture is the right size and shape. Keep padding the form with more scrunched up paper, tape it on really well, and build up the form until it looks the way you want your final sculpture to look. Then add your layers of paper mache or paper mache clay.

By: Olivia

Olivia — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:04:14 +0000

Hiya im Olivia and i do alot of paper Mache at school but i really want to know
how to make a human size person out of paper mache. The reason i need you help is because i don’t know what to use as the inner structure of my human i need your help. I know thats a hard job but i think i can do it. I was think a balloon for the head but i’m stuck for the body and the arms and legs and all the rest.

yours Sinceirly, Olivia

By: Jonni

Jonni — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:24:17 +0000

Sure you could. Check out the video of this horse (a smaller one, although you can make it any size). The full instructions and pattern for it are in my paper mache book.

By: Irdina Inani Razdwan

Irdina Inani Razdwan — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:09:56 +0000

COOL!I couldn’t do that!

By: Jonni

Jonni — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:37:32 +0000

You certainly could. In fact, I recommend it. I spent weeks developing the easiest way to create the horse that's shown in my paper mache clay book. The first horse I made, which is on this page, was a "warm-up" in many ways. In contrast, I built 5 different horses while developing the methods used in the book, and my experimentation "behind the scenes" allowed me to find the easiest way to do it. The new instructions, along with the new paper mache clay recipe, removes most of the frustration and gives you the best chance of success. However, many people have also used the original ideas on this and related posts to make their own horse. If you decide to follow along with these older methods, I definitely recommend using the wire leg armatures that I show in this video instead of the plaster board that I used in my first horse, shown on this page - the plaster board was a big mistake, because it weakens when it absorbs water from the paste.

By: dana cole

dana cole — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:19:54 +0000

could you possibly make this foal like how u made the horse in the book