Made by Alan Monteith
In my last post, I made a 3D poly bear printed on card stock. I did not quite like him because one leg was not right and a little flimsy. I did cut him open and stuff him with paper. I covered him in tape. Next I covered him in paper mache, then I gave him a coat of joint compound. I left it to dry and then I used a wet rag to smooth it. It still has a lot of of pucks that did not fill in. I gave it a coat of primer paint. I sort of like him now. I lost most of the sharp lines but that is ok. I do not know if I should go back and do some more filling or just leave it???? I do not know if I should paint him and if I do what color??????? My goal was to use him for a model so that I could make a life size bear in steel. I do not think that I am going to do that at this time.
I love the simple lines of your polar bear. It needs no other embellishments. Great job!
Great job Alan! Thanks for the shout out Jonni. It is fun to work with the patterns and I dont mind losing a few edges to get the over all look. For my two cents I would def stick with the white. Even if you go matte. Looks great with nothing more. Use a flexible spatula and just do the small touch up spots that bug you that you missed. Then resmooth. You have done a really great job with it!
I personally love it being white. It captures the lumbering that one associates with bears. Really nice project. So, where will he live?
I wanted to say that when I made my paper mache clay, the clay would clime up the beater. I took one beater and cut off two of the opposing paddles and only used one beater. It worked a little better. My batch was thin, 1/2 cup flower, I wanted to spread thinner.
What a great idea! It does really bug me when the paper mache clay crawls up the beaters, because it’s a pain to clean it out of those little holes where the beaters go into the mixer. Thanks so much for the idea!
Wow, thanks.
Hi Alan. I really like the way your bear turned out. Our friend Phyllis Huber also used a low-poly papercraft pattern of an elephant wall sculpture. It’s almost all white, except for the eyes and tusks, and it’s quite striking. Your bear looks really nice all white, too. (Just in case folks missed it, here’s a link to your metal sculpture of a bear with his fish.)