Your Paper Mache Sculptures -
Paper Mache Pumpkin
We’ve been receiving some wonderful photos of paper mache sculptures from our readers, like this paper mache pumpkin from Angie and Alex.
And now we want to see yours. Just upload your photo (small file sizes, please!) into your comments. We would all love to see your latest creations.
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Hi Jonni
Here is the requested photos of my dog sculpture. It was a present for my mother on Mother’s day. She has a tan poodle. I think it turned out ok since it was my first time using your clay recipe. I used the original version with baby oil and Elmer’s Glue-All. No clay. If your looking for a cheap place to buy Glue-all, try Lowe’s. $13 a gallon. It’s in the paint section. Again, thanks for sharing your recipe.
Brett
What a lovely sculpture, Brett. Your mother must be so happy with it.
Jonni,
“Shouldn’t we specialize and create exactly what feels right to us, and use that uniqueness as a selling point to the few people who might be interested,” you say.
I don’t disagree . . . however, I think that “failure to place” your work is linked to not so much to content, but to the exactness of your presentation. If your “uniqueness” can carry water, then there will be interest in it. “Two excited buyers seem better than 200 semi-interested lookers,” is interesting. The problem is that it is easier to cull the two excited buyers from an “identifiable 200 semi-interested lookers” than to wait passively on a street corner waiting to be discovered . . . as the traffic and time flash by.
What’s “exactness of presentation?” Not erecting distractions! Distractions are errors in our building that we don’t bother to correct, subject matter that cares no message and having the conceited thought that because our family, friends, church guild or the like are doing they are not an indication of creative ability. Personally, I’ve never had a child who didn’t like what I’ve made . . .
I think your Steven Pressfield book, THE WAR OF ART, got to the point quite well when he opined that some artists are amateur, others professional in their thought process. For myself, I intend to earn a couple bucks, which casts me in the latter group. As such, doesn’t objective self-criticism tend stay the course? It also causes some sleepless nights.
Jim
Hello Jonni! I was finally able to send these photos of my bunny. This is my second project and I think it turned out well. We are currently living in Sweden and they have alot of chicken decorations for Easter time but not many bunnies so I decided to make my own using your paper mache clay. Oh, regards to the feathers… they hang feathers in the trees (since everything is still gray and bare around Easter time) so I added it to the bunny which can be removed later. Thanks again for all your tutorials, its changed everything I thought about paper mache!
Sprinda, I am truly impressed with your bunny. He’s got such a wonderful personality. Thanks for showing him to us.
Sprinda, I LOVE your bunny!! He is so cute and full of personality! Great work for your second project.
Thank you Terry, it was a lot of fun to do. Easter is over, but he is just too cute to put away. I think he is a summer bunny now.
https://www.dropbox.com/home/Public/Bunny%20hanging%20from%20carrot
Hello Jonni
I hope that you are able to open this. This is only my second project, second posting (about a year ago) so I am having to figure out how to post again. The information about this bunny is on the previous note.
Hello Jonni!
I hope I have done this correctly and my photos have shown up. This is my second project and I think it turned out well. We are currently living in Sweden and they have alot of chicken decorations for Easter time but not many bunnies so I decided to make my own using your paper mache clay. Oh, regards to the feathers… they hang feathers in the trees (since everything is still gray and bare around Easter time) so I added it to the bunny which can be removed later.
Thank you for letting me post.
Hi Sprinda. I can’t get to the image for some reason, but you can now upload your images directly without going through Dropmox. Just use the field below the comment box. You will need small-sized images, so have your camera or image editing program save them “for the web,” and they should work just fine. I would really love to see this sculpture, so I hope you’ll try again.
I just want to let everyone know that the new Daily Sculptors page is now live. If you’d like to join our challenge, and work on your craft every single day (any medium, any size, any subject) you’re more than welcome to come join us.
Oh. Is there something in the book with wings that could be used as an example/template? Your work is truly amazing. As is the work of the folks who have put their photos up…I am so impressed!
The chicken and penguins have wings, sort of – but not the kind you need if you’re making a flying pig. You would make the wings the same way the dachshund’s and elephant’s ears are made, but in a slightly different shape and in a different place.
Sounds great…….just a little tweek here and there…….I think I will try that! Thanks! I am going to order the book from Amazon! I am so excited!
Great, Kristy. I sure hope you’ll let us see how it turns out.
Amazing! Truly spectacular!
huge!!!! and so well done, beautiful piece, will be hanging on the wall??
Wow!
Wow is right! And I love his (her?) face.
huge! and so well done, beautiful piece, will be hanging on the wall?
So beautiful!
Wow .. seems to be the word for this work, its amazing. very well done.
Thanks, everyone!! It’s 7’4″ tall and weighs about 35lbs, so it stays on the floor. Not sure what to do with it, now. Or what to make next! I took photos along the way, so I suppose I could make one of those how-to videos I see on here…
If you do make a video, please let me know – we’d all love to see it. Or, would you like to write a guest post? If you would, just let me know.
I stumbled across your website a few weeks ago doing research on paper mache, and decided to try your paper mache clay recipe on this monster. 7 feet tall!! There was a bunch of trial and error but in the end I am happy with the results and will be using your paper mache clay in all my future projects. Thanks, Jonni!! (not sure why the pic is skewed on the upload?)
Hi Coty. The image didn’t come through. It is probably too big for the system to accept. Try taking another picture with the camera set to take low resolution photos for the web. The owner’s manual will have instructions for that setting. I do hope you’ll try again – I’d love to see that huge monster!
WOW!!!!! These are amazing! I am so impressed! My mom loves flying pigs, does your book have that pattern Jonni?
Thanks, Kristy. But no, the pig in my book has no wings – but you could add wings if you want to. The flying pig was a special gift for my daughter. (She loves it.)
I have been asked to have another display at our Library. I love doing the butterflies so I thought I would do about a dozen to display. I plan to show how the life cycle of the butterflies work.
The butterflies are very nice, Dodie. The post I did showing how to make a paper mache butterfly has consistently been one of the most popular posts on this site, but I rarely get to see any finished butterflies – thanks for showing them to us! (P.s. – I think your butterflies actually came out better than mine….)
Hi again,
Here is my other completed sculptures, the penguin family. I have a lot of the other projects from the book at different stages of completion but these are the only ones I’ve finished completely. You can check out other pictures and other types of work on the website I’ve added.
The pig and penguin family turned out really great! I’m so glad you showed them to us. The penguin looking down at baby looks so loving, doesn’t she [he]?
Thank you!! Yes, she’s very loving.
Awwwwwww! That’s so special!
Hi Jonni,
I finally completed some of my own paper mache projects from your wonderful book. Here’s my pig sculpture that I modified to make into the literary character of Wilbur with an added rubber spider on its nose as Charlotte.
I love the pups
Thought I would try again
Yay! It worked!
I don’t think our readers have seen your wonderful paper mache dogs yet. Could you upload a photo of them, too?
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