Paper Mache Clay

Paper Mache Prom Decor with an Egyptian Theme

ShareI’ve received some fantastic images this week from readers, and it’s been difficult to decide which artist’s work to post first. Tiffiny’s “life-sized” Egyptian sculptures were created for her daughter’s prom, but I sure hope they find a permanent home where they can be on display. Fantastic job. Here’s what Tiffiny said in her email [...]

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Chimpanzee Bust – A Paper Mache Clay Experiment

ShareI seem to be in the mood for experiments this month. Most of my experiments have been out in the garden (no results to report yet), but yesterday it was cold and wet, so I decided to stay inside and do an experiment with paper mache clay. This experiment actually started a few weeks ago [...]

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Readers Show us Their Paper Mache Clay Sculptures

ShareWe’ve been receiving some very interesting comments lately, complete with photos of new artwork made with paper mache clay. I’m going to showcase a few of them here, just in case you don’t have time to read through every single page on this site every single day (whew – that would take some serious time!). [...]

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Life-Sized Bust Made with Paper Mache Clay

ShareJoanne Gennarella, a reader who often shares her comments on this site, sent in a photo of a life-sized bust that she recently completed. I know there are a lot of folks who have been wondering if you can use paper mache clay for human figures and portraits, so you’ll enjoy seeing what Joanne did [...]

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Sculpt a Dragon with Paper Mache Clay, Part 2

ShareIn this video I let you watch over my shoulder as I add paper mache clay to the dragon armature I made for a previous episode. The dragon came out a little bumpier than usual, just because I was trying to hurry. The process of applying the paper mache clay is usually a nice slow, [...]

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Horse Sculpture – Project #7 from Paper Mache Book

ShareThis horse sculpture is the last project in my new book Make Animal Sculptures With Paper Mache Clay. (The video was made before the book came out – it is now available on Amazon.com) In the video you can see how I reinforced the legs so the armature is strong enough. A larger horse would [...]

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African Elephant – Project #6 in New Paper Mache Book

African Elephant Made with Paper Mache Clay

ShareThis video is part of a series showing the projects in my new book Make Animal Sculptures With Paper Mache Clay. (The video was made before the book came out – it is now available on Amazon.com) This video is a bit longer than normal, because I wanted to show you how the paper mache [...]

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Begging Dachshund – Project #5 in New Paper Mache Book

ShareThis video is part of a series showing the projects in my new book Make Animal Sculptures With Paper Mache Clay. (The video was made before the book came out – it is now available on Amazon.com) In this video I introduce you to the fifth project in my upcoming paper mache book. The begging [...]

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Spotted Piglet – Project #4 in New Paper Mache Book

ShareThis video is part of a series showing the projects in my new book Make Animal Sculptures With Paper Mache Clay. (The video was made before the book came out – it is now available on Amazon.com) In this video, I introduce you to a spotted piglet. He’s the fourth project in my upcoming book [...]

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Emperor Penguin Family, Project #3 in New Paper Mache Book

Emperor Penguin Family - Project #3 from New Paper Mache Book

ShareThis video is part of a series showing the projects in my new book Make Animal Sculptures With Paper Mache Clay. (The video was made before the book came out – it is now available on Amazon.com) In this episode I show you how the emperor penguin family is made, using patterns, some Styrofoam cubes [...]

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What is “Joint Compound” Called in Your Country?

ShareYou may be able to help out our growing international online artist community. We need to know what joint compound is called in other countries. The home-made paper mache clay recipe I created (recipe here) is made with premixed drywall joint compound and Elmer’s Glue-All® as the main ingredients, along with toilet paper and linseed [...]

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Clownfish – Project #2 in New Paper Mache Book

ShareThis video is part of a series showing the projects in my new book Make Animal Sculptures With Paper Mache Clay. (The video was made before the book came out – it is now available on Amazon.com) This video is the second in a series showing off the projects in my upcoming book Make Animal [...]

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Vintage Chicken – Project #1 in New Paper Mache Book

ShareThis video is part of a series showing the projects in my new book Make Animal Sculptures With Paper Mache Clay. (The video was made before the book came out – it is now available on Amazon.com) You haven’t heard much from me in the last three months, because I’ve been working so hard on [...]

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Make a Delicate Butterfly with Paper Mache Clay

ShareToday I’ll show you how I made these butterflies, which have rather surprisingly thin wings, yet don’t break when you drop them on the floor (I didn’t mean to, but at least now I know they’ll survive a bit of clumsiness…) I don’t normally make tiny things. I don’t collect tiny things, either. That’s just [...]

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Make this Frog with Paper Mache Clay

ShareI spent my Christmas vacation making this frog out of newspaper, masking tape, pipe cleaners and paper mache clay. I show you how I did it below. If I did it again I’d use stronger wire in place of the pipe cleaners so I could get thinner fingers and toes, but that’s the only part [...]

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