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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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Greetings, Jonni!
I just completed this pair of half-masks for a friend to use in a ventriloquist act. Following the directions in your book, “Masks!”, made this project much easier so thank you!
Lyman
Wonderful, Lyman. So creative. Everyone, be sure to click on Lyman’s name to see the masks.
A paper Mache fancy goldfish.
Beautiful! And I love the rest of the work on your site, too. Thanks for showing it to us.
Hi Jonni, thanks for the details and information. I think I will do the rhino method since it doesn’t take as long. For the clay, is there a specific kind of clay to use?
That’s a good idea to have a turntable. But it would have to be big one! I like your idea of one on the floor where you could put a table on top of it. Maybe the turntable could incorporate ball bearings so it could turn easily. Please post when you someday make one! Seriously though. I’d love to see it!
I love all the different sculptures everyone is doing! This inspires me to do more dogs! Here’s one of my latest dogs I did about a year ago. If Dogs Run Free, Bull Terrier, 10.25”H x 12.75”W x 5.5”D
Very nice, Helen. I really like the happy posture, and the interesting way you’ve decorated him. Thanks for showing him to us.
Thanks, Jonni. You are an inspiration and so generous sharing your techniques and encouragement. I used pages from my favorite dog magazine, Bark, so there are dog references and images smattered about. I used magazine illustrations to “paint” the decoration on the piece.
Hi Helen! What a fun piece! I love his terrier sturdiness and friendly attitude, and the creative way you’ve applied the color. I’d love to see more of your work! Can we?? Pleeeaase?
I’m making more dogs for a local open studios and will definitely post more of my work. Thanks for asking, Xan!
Yeay! I’ll keep an eye out!
Hi Xan, here’re a few of my latest dogs. Let me see how many I can post at one time or if I will need to post them separately.
Helen
Another one.
I was inspired by a 14th century tapestry of hunting dogs for this one. The curly tail caught my eye and I said to myself “I have to make a sculpture of this!” So again, no paint is used. My pallette is magazine pages.
Wow! Helen, where do you show your sculptures? Are they in a local gallery, or do you sell them online?
OK – now I see that you’re making the pups for a local open studio show. Wonderful – please let us know how it goes.
Jonni, I enjoyed the open studios. I like to share my art and chat with art enthusiasts. It’s worth a million bucks to me when I see visitors get a big smile on their face! I sold two over two weekends. I will be putting my new dogs onto my Etsy site, PaperPort. My inventory is really low, but that’s ok. I’ll continue to make more. I made some notecards of my pups this time and they sold well.
FYI. My dogs are smaller than they appear!
Jonni, I dug out your animal sculpture book that I bought a year ago [?]. Your way of making the armatures is just what I need now in order to make my dogs faster! Currently my dogs are made by wrapping magazine paper with masking tape [which I borrowed from your book] and methyl cellulose around a wire armature and it takes forever to build up the form before I even get to some of the defining muscles and features! It’s hard to transition to a new way of doing things, what with the learning curve!
Hi Helen. Did you see the post about my rhino? If you’re trying to do things faster, you might be interested in that one. I used the pattern, as usual, but used wet clay instead of crumpled paper to fill in the rounded forms. Then a coat of plaster cloth captured the shapes, and the clay was removed. At that point, you’re ready to go on with the paper mache clay, or regular paper mache, or the new air-dry clay, or whatever. The original method works great, and it’s a lot cheaper, but if you need things to go more quickly (maybe because you have a few buyers waiting in line) then the extra expense of the plaster cloth could be a good investment. Let me know what you think.
Hi Jonni, I did see your rhino posting. Amazing! It looks complicated, but I definitely like how you can sculpt with clay and then make a mold from it. Very clever! I have sculpted in clay and love how forgiving it is – too big, remove some clay; not big enough, add some clay. I think I understand the process. After sculpting in clay, I would cover the clay with plastic, so it doesn’t stick to the plaster cloth and so you can reuse the wet clay. Where do you get your plaster cloth? I have a potential commission to do a full size 60 pound dog and am looking for alternative ways to create a paper mache sculpture. I think your technique is a great solution! But I bet your rhino with wet clay weighed a ton!
That’s how I’m doing it, yes. I buy the 12-pack 4″ plaster cloth from Brick in the Yard. I ask for USPS shipping, and it gets here in two days. I added up all the rolls I used for the rhino, and figured in the shipping costs, and it looks like my rhino has cost me about $30 so far. However, the same system works with the “shop towel mache”, and the paper mache clay. It just takes longer (and the paper mache clay would be really hard to cut apart.)
I used over 50 pounds of clay for the rhino, even though I used all that foam and stuff inside. I don’t have a turntable big enough to put it on, so it was really hard to work on it. Maybe that’s my excuse for building a proper turntable. It would have to go on the floor, I think, so I could turn it with my feet. And put a table of whatever height on top of it. Maybe someday…
Wow Helen, I really love your dog and its wonderful paint job.
Thanks, Tammy!
I just started doing paper mache again
Here a photo of a horse head I’m working on…
Ginny, I somehow missed seeing your horse when you first posted it. It’s lovely – it almost feels like you should go get an apple to share with him. Very nice!
I didn’t know about paper mache clay — obviously this first face attempt turned out very crude with the packaged CelluClay. I fused the head to a tray using bath tub caulk — don’t know of other options yet — any recommendations? It’s still drying so I don’t know if it was the best option or not…
I don’t know of anything that sticks to paper mache that’s still wet. I tend to use a hot glue gun, but only after the mache is completely dry.
Made with Paper Pulp.
Nice character. Do you have a special way of making your paper pulp? And do you seal it somehow so you can display the pumpkin outside?
I start with paper pulp, formed over a carved foam armature covered with plastic. I do a front and back half, leaving the openings for eyes, nose and mouth. I soak the inside with boiled linseed oil the prime with off white oil primer. Then using a mod of your paper clay made with waterproof wood glue and exterior latex primer, I do all of the sculpting details on the out side painting with exterior latex primer and paint. then spry with exterior clear enamel. My paper mache Birdbath has been outside for over 2 years and doing very well.
Another Halloween prop. Cerberus, the faces and paws are paper mache clay! Love this stuff…
Halloween props. The face and hands are made with paper mache clay. Thank you for this wonderful tool!
You’re welcome. What wonderfully creepy Halloween props. Your neighborhood kids must be scared out of their wits.
Jonni,
Hello, I’ve always wanted to try paper mache art but didn’t know how to approach it. I found you on YouTube and love watching your tutorials. Thank you for all the great information and recipes. I have no sculpturing experience but I took what I learned from you and created my very first paper mache zebra! You are an inspiration.
Yer
Your zebra is wonderful! How big is it?
Thank you. I didn’t realize going into this that I would have to study stripes from EVERY angle!
I wanted to paint the stripes multi-neon colors but that didn’t work out (the paints I picked up were too transparent). It’s approximately 7″ x 7″ x 2.5″. Happy New Year.
Well… Maybe this time>>>>
Wow – what a great costume! The kids must be having a great time with it.
Here is a shot of the complete body. The costume is now going to be used in a kindergarten reading program. The winners get to wear and be photoed in the costume. Should be a lot of fun.
Thanks for the hints on your site. This is our first attempt at the art. My 6 year olds spinosaurus costume this holloween Oct 2012. This is the head roughed out. Still have to download the rest. candy was put into the mouth and slid thru tubes into the top of the spine which served as the candy bucket. Strobing LEDs were rigged for in the eyes for night safety.
Hello Jonni, I got the picture of my pumpkins up hope this works okay. I have never done paper mache or any type of sculpting before in my life so go easy on me as this is my first time. I learned allot and if anyone wants any tips or how these were done just let me know.
Here is a pic of some of the pumpkins I made for hallowen 2012. This is the first time ever doing paper mache.
Ooh – they’re wonderfully creepy!
They’re great. And, of course we’d love to see how they were done.
Hi Jonni, just wanted to thank you for all your great info and tutorials. I live in a small apartment so i was looking for a non toxic, easily cleanable sculpting material and your paper mache is it! I used both the clay and the gesso. This is Dimples, my first paper mache sculpture and kind of an experiment. Next I would like to make a hollow pieces so they would be lighter weight and perhaps able to move. Its not the best photo.
She’s lovely! I’ll bet you have a wonderful name picked out for this piece -
Here are the heads for a couple of costumes that I made using the blue towel, glue, and plaster technique. I used 24″ beach balls for an armature and attached the heads to hardhats for easy wearability. I also used this method on a 48″ beach ball to create the slinkydog front and back body parts. I will definitely use this method again in the future. I was amazed at the short time it took for the pieces to dry to a hard finish. Thank you for sharing this technique!
Thanks, Denise! The costumes really turned out well. I’ll bet the audience loved them.
Ok guys, here is my first horse (well Pegasus) done using Jonni’s horse pattern from her amazing book. It needs work but hey who doesn’t love making more Paper Mache …:)
Progress …..
Finished.
Hi Tammy, I really like your horse. I’m new at this paper clay stuff that Jonni has made, but it’s great, I love seeing all the wonderful things people are creating
Marilyn
Hi Jonni,
and his.
Believe it or not the turtle is mainly made from the paper mache clay recipe here on the web site. I made the loose looking skin with cut up sheets (cut to approximately 1.5 the size of what ever I was covering) I than soaked the clothe in white glue, squeezed out the extra and loosely draped it over and around the parts I wanted to cover. Than I let it dry over night. For the shell I used clothe too but this time I folded each glue covered piece to give the ridge like look ( all this was over a dried paper mache ball that I cut in half to form the shape of the shell. I learned this technique from “Dan The Monster Man” over at papermacheblog.com and from his book. (I have 2 paper mache books only. …Yours
I hope this explains everything ok. If you or anyone have any specific question please go a head and ask . I would be happy to share.
Thank, Tammy. The results are wonderful, (and so is Dan’s book.)
Hi everyone
I think I may have an addiction ………! I am a paper mache addict!
I made this for The North Island Reptile Rescue here on Vancouver Island. It is a Red ear slider turtle. This little guy took about 2.5 weeks including drying time. It is so ooooooo hard to be patient with the drying time.
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What do you think?
I love it! What materials and techniques did you use? Any secret tips to pass on?
Saw this website and it inspired me to do some paper mache sculpting for Halloween, so I made this life size skeletal specter for the front yard. Its armature is left over construction and packing materials and the skin is made of paste saturated paper towels. It is still unpainted but I thought it looked pretty cool in its raw paper mache state:
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This is my first time working with paper mache but I have a natural affinity for the weird and creepy so I think it came out all right. If this is successful I think I’ll do a big old dragon.
Yes, it’s wonderfully creepy. I do hope you make the dragon, too.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this!! Great job!
Wow this is amazing! I would love to see some more of her:)
Hi again Jonni,
I was finally able to size my pics. What do you think? I would love any opinions and suggestions any one might have.
Thanks
Tam
Hi Tammy. It’s hard to believe that these are the first paper mache projects you’ve ever worked on – they’re great! Very inventive. Did you design the creatures?
Thank you Jonni
If you look up “Rat Fink” you will see that he is the green guy with the big eye balls. I made him for my boyfriend (its a muscle car character that he really likes and I used a reference photo from the net) I made the dragon for my son ……. he wanted a friendly Chinese type dragon so that is what I came up with. The pterodactyl was made for a nephew of mine (he has a hip hop group named “Pterodactyl” I used a tattoo that he liked and a realistic reproduction pic. from the internet as references.
I have now started a Pegasus using the horse pattern from your book . I usually use wire armatures and paper mache balls to build my sculptures but I’m liking the cardboard method very much. My proportions are definitely a problem for me but this is helping quite a bit.
When my turtle and Pegasus is done I will definitely post them .
I love your site:0)
Tam
I would love to see those progress pictures on your giraffe …it is just beautiful. Your painting looks very nice. It looks so real, I love the nose the most….. I just want to snuggle it.
you can view pics of my art ventures on my facebook page..if you like send me a friend request and i will add you………..cat jarvis bedford texas
Hi Cat,
I can’t find you on face book?? There are a few Cat Jarvis but so far none in texas
try searching using my email addy…..catcjarvis@yahoo.com
I will upload the last two in an hour or so ..My very first was the Pterodactyl (pic coming up), 2nd was the small dragon, (had a hard time with small detail on this one)and 3rd “Rat Fink”.
Hi again here are my first 3 projects
Please tell me what you think.
Tammy
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Here is the last one that was really my first one.
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Hi Jonni,
I just want to start by say I love your site. I also have your book and it is great. I am totally new with this media but thanks to you I just love it. I love your paper mache clay. I have done 3 projects so far. I have combined “Dan the monster mans” technique with yours and have created a very large Pterodactyl, small Chinese like dragon ,and a large Rat Fink ( cartoon muscle car figure). I still have to figure out how to size the pic for the web but will post them soon. I would appreciate any criticisms and opinions.
Tammy
Hi Tammy. I do hope you get the photos posted, because I’d love to see them! If you camera came with a instruction booklet, search for “save for the web” or instructions on how to save at a low resolution for emailing photos. All cameras are different, so it’s hard to help from here – but I can’t wait to see those sculptures…
started to make the Rhinos 3 weeks ago, the small one is now complete and the large one is almost there, need to be finished by tuesday night as in the carnival procession on Wednesday, was hampered by the weather so much rain it has been taking an age to dry out properly
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luckily the small one fits in the house
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now the question is, as i have nowhere to store these long term what do i do with them afterwards? i have already asked if any schools in the area would like them, No takers, may have to try E Bay, any ideas gratefully accepted
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You made these in three weeks? That fantastic! I can’t believe you haven’t found anyone willing to take them for permanent display. What city do you live it? Maybe one of my readers lives near you, and would like a couple of rather largish “pets.”
i spend a bit of time over the weekends and each evening after work putting thin layers on, as i only really do this once a year for the carnival and have no storage it always is a last minute project which does help me focus my efforts and i seem to get a lot done within a short time frame. Couldn’t sustain it all the time though. The large Rhino will only be the front half now so it will be emerging through greenery. If any of your readers would like them they are more than welcome, (subject to them surviving the procession) i’m in Weymouth U.K,
That’s very generous of you! By the way, shipping the pieces would be really expensive. I hope you can find someone nearby who will enjoy your rhinos. Good luck!
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Primer
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And it begins..
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This is the Sand Castle Card Box I made for my friends wedding. I been meaning to share this with you guys. I used elmers glue, flour and water over the 2 box’s and toilet paper rolls. Then did a coat of primer to keep it sturdy and not buckle in heat. Then mixed sand, flour, and water to make a base type clay and spackled it on. Then to finish, I used spray glue and a sprinkled a mixture of sand and touch of glitter. It made it look more realistic. It turned out better than I expected and was a total hit at the wedding. My friend teared up when she saw it. Made the whole experience worth it!
Lovely! Thanks for the project photos, too – this would be a really fun project.
my first attempt at using your wonderful paper mache recipe! thank you!
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Wow – your giraffe is wonderful! May I ask how you made the armature? Did you take progress photos, by any chance?
i built the armature with 2×4′s and 1×2′s…i have progressive pics but they seem to be to large of a file to upload here…thats why i couldnt post the full body pic i have. thank you for the compliment, i am almost done with mt next project and enjoy this medium very much!
superb, absolutely love the facial features and paint effect, green with envy!
Hi Jonni, so glad i found your site so very inspiring getting loads of ideas (and i can share some of my work too) few more pics of my attempts, the Skull was made on a chicken wire armature and took 3 weeks to complete, although i was blessed with glorious weather so it dried quickly, not like this year just hasn’t seemed to stop raining. i dream of having a covered work space so i could really go for a huge project, keeps me out of mischief as well. i have tried working with expanding foam and though it is easy to sculpt it is an expensive medium to work with so i think paper and wire is it for me but since seeing your examples using wood “the baby elephant” i will give this a try too. thanks
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Nice work!
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hi, just found your website, quite inspirational and given me some new ideas, i have never used “clay” but have recently started using shredded paper from the office good texture for dragon skin etc. i have adde a few pics of some projects i have done for carnival floats.
think i may try a lifesize adult Rhino after seeing your baby one.
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Nice work. I love the elephant.
Dear Jonni,
I have checked all stuff stores and art supply stores and tried to explain joint compound nobody could get what exactly it is. I am writing from Turkey and made a simple cat with your explanations which I will load the picture soon. But to have the main clay as you told here could not be achieved yet because of joint compound… Do you think I can find it in Ikea stores or leroy Merlin that you can maybe give me a brand name and all my sufferings will end =))
Some says its a kind of derz to fulfill tiles some says its plaster of paris some says it must be wallpaper glue?
Sincerely
Egemen
It isn’t either plaster of Paris or wallpaper glue. If the construction methods in Turkey don’t use gypsum board to create walls, there won’t be any joint compound in the stores. You may need to simply use paper strips and paste made with flour or wallpaper paste instead. If you’d like to see how joint compound is used by people building houses, do a search with that term on YouTube.com.
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
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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
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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??
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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.
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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.
[img]http://ultimatepapermache.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/IMAG0046.JPG[/img]
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.
[img]http://ultimatepapermache.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/IMAG0016.JPG[/img]
I love the pups
[img]http://ultimatepapermache.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Mylittlepups.JPG[/img]
Thought I would try again
[img]http://ultimatepapermache.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Butterfly.JPG[/img]
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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