Create a sculpture of a face or figure with paper mache.
Let go of some stress while playing around with a clay sculpture of a Giant. Clay is intuitive, it feels good in the hands, and there’s no pressure if you never intend to keep it as a permanent sculpture. If life is stressing you out, grab some wet clay and have fun with it. 🙂
I made this pattern for a skull-shaped form to make sculpting a head a lot easier (and it’s less expensive than the resin skull I’ve often used in the past).
Made by Trui Malten All my theatre work dried up from one day to the next in March. I am mainly a lighting designer, but … Read more
In this video we add the air dry clay to the wise men’s robes, give them turbans made with Super Sculpey, and get them ready for hands and gifts. Only one more video to go!
I changed the way the figures are attached to the base of the Three Wise Men, and I used Super Sculpey for the new heads, the feet and the sandals.
In this post I start making one of the Three Wise Men from the Christmas story. This is part 1 of this series.
Archangel Wings made by Sarah Manchester – full tutorial for making them with paper mache and paper mache clay.
How Harry Rosen makes his paper mache clay sculptures, and protects them from the weather with FlexBond mortar.
How Wishes Goodearth, from Tasmania, creates her figure sculptures. For her delightful figures she uses tissue paper, glue and calcium carbonate (also called powdered marble, … Read more
My DIY Gnome spent the winter outside, in Minnesota – and it’s still waterproof and hard as a rock. Success. Except for the varnish…
Today our friend Fran O’Meara shows us how she made a large paper mache sculpture of a lady in a swimsuit, using several inventive new … Read more
In this video we see how the gnome is covered with a hard-coating to keep out the rain, and his face is made with Magic Sculpt epoxy clay.
My DIY gnome will live outside, but you could put him next to your Christmas tree. This video shows how to sculpt the armature out of foil.
This figure sculpture series was made with paper mache clay, over a wax positive mold. It’s a unique way to make many different sculptures using one original model. Guest post tutorial on UltimatePaperMache.com
In this post we discover Debbie Court’s method for making figure sculptures with paper mache clay. As soon as you can see the sculpture she … Read more
A package of WED clay arrived in the mail a few days ago, and I used it for this silly Goblin portrait. Maybe I’ll use … Read more
Harry Keaton wrote a guest post for us, showing us how he made the armature for his Laurence of Arabia sculpture. Armatures for two-legged critters … Read more
Today we have a guest post from Carolyn of St. Croix. She shows us some small sculptures she makes with an adapted version of my … Read more
Today we have a guest post from our friend Eileen Gallagher. We receive a lot of questions and comments about Paverpol here on the blog, … Read more
We have another guest post today by Cory Triplett, a grade school teacher who uses paper mache and other art forms to help his students … Read more
Our old friend Steve Sack will be showing his wonderfully humorous paper mache sculptures from June 5 to July 10, 2015 at the Inez Greenberg … Read more
Today we have a guest post by Cherie Kemp – and just in time for the holidays. When I saw her fox and bear “egg-heads” … Read more
We have another great guest post from Julie Ellis today, showing us how she made her wonder Fancy Dancer sculpture! We get to see how … Read more
A short time ago Eileen Gallagher posted a photo of her “Desert Dweller” mask, made with recycled cardboard, and several of us asked her to … Read more
Includes Jonni’s famous Paper Mache Clay recipe, and tips on choosing the right recipe for your next project.