Faces And Figures

Character Study – Lessons Learned

Paper mache character study - mistakes were made.

This character study was really fun – until the very end. Watch this video to see what I did wrong, and what I’ll do differently next time.

DIY Art Therapy – Sculpting a Portrait of a Giant

DIY Art Thereapy - Sculpt a Portrait of a Giant

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. 🙂

Sculpt Faces with this Easy DIY Sculpting Form

Pattern for a skull-shaped face sculpting form

This DIY sculpting form helps you learn to sculpt faces, portraits and characters. The pattern creates all the shapes for you, so it’s easy to put together with cardboard and paper mache.

Covid cronies

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

The 3 Wise Men, Part Three – the Air Dry Clay

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!

The Three Wise Men, Part 2 – New Base, and Two New Wise Men

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.

Make the Three Wise Men with Super Sculpey and Air Dry Clay

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

Archangel Wings made by Sarah Manchester – full tutorial for making them with paper mache and paper mache clay.

How Harry Rosen Makes His Outdoor Sculptures

How Harry Rosen makes his paper mache clay sculptures, and protects them from the weather with FlexBond mortar.

Figure Sculptures Made with Tissue Paper and Glue

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

DIY Gnome Update

My DIY Gnome spent the winter outside, in Minnesota – and it’s still waterproof and hard as a rock. Success. Except for the varnish…

Large Papier Mache Figure Sculpture

Make a figure sculpture with paper mache clay

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

Make a Gnome – Part 2

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.

Make a DIY Gnome, Part 1 – the Armature

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.

Create a Figure Sculpture Series with Paper Mache Clay

Make a figure sculpture series with paper mache clay

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

How to Sculpt a Regency-Style Figure with Paper Mache Clay

Make a regency figure guest post by Debbie Court

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

Making a Goblin Portrait with WED Clay

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

Lawrence of Arabia Paper Mache Sculpture

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

Papier Mache in the Caribbean – US Virgin Islands

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

Sculpting with Paverpol

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

Chinese Terracotta Warriors Reproduced in Paper Mache – Guest Post

How to make a life-sized paper mache reproduction of the famous Terracotta Warriors from China.

Steve Sack’s Paper Mache “Cartoonival” at the Inez Greenberg Gallery

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