Super Sculpey

Paper Mache Horse, Day 12

It’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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How to Make a Paper Mache Giraffe

I’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 Flying Pig

This paper mache flying pig was a fun project. I won’t give detailed instructions, since it was made primarily the same way that the paper mache bunny was made. You can see the basic shape of the pig below. This is after the second layer of paper mache has been added, but before the details [...]

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Paper Mache Giraffe, With Some Thoughts About Art…

It took over a week, but my giraffe sculpture is finally finished. The neck was made with a cardboard armature (see the African mask tutorial). It took quite a lot of pushing, prodding, (and some wire “stitching”), to get the cardboard to behave the way I wanted it to. The process wasn’t pretty, and I [...]

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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