I have never heard of this method either. I just can’t imagine using cotton balls to smooth out to a flat surface. I’ll have to check it out on uTube. I really like the printed paper you used.
Yes, there’s absolutely no paper mache at all applied to this.It is all strictly cotton balls and or cotton sheets with the cornstarch Slurry. LIttle tip rolled out cotton balls give a lot more texture and wave to your sculptures. If you’re trying to make wavy hair for instance. But cotton sheets smooth out the entire sculpture, and it’s such a beautiful piece ocne done, you can paint it or you can do the napkin and ore tissue paper on top of it like i did.
Sheri, I love the way you’re using fabrics with your animal sculptures – they look great! Do you have a special product that you used to make the fabric stick? Someone asked me for advice recently, and I couldn’t help because I’ve never tried it myself.
I use a cornstarch and water cooked paste. I first lined the entire thing with cotton. You can use cotton balls or medical grade cotton Sheets, it’s much more lightweight than paper mache or clay. You have to apply liberal amount of cornstarch Paste to the sculpture and then blend in the cotton…It dries rock solid. I then use a tissue paper with a design on it. And I use that same cornstarch.Slurry that I made to adhere it. There are many really good tutorials on YouTube showing how to do the cotton Art sculptures and I just applied this technique to your finished sculpture. The measurements for the cornstarch is one cup of water to 1 tbsp of cornstarch, cooked until thick. I would recommend using it all up completely or storing it in the fridge If you have any leftover. I am working on the deer buck, and I am trying to adhere felting roving to it.I’ll let you know how that turns out.
That is really interesting – do you mean you don’t need any paper mache at all, because the cotton and corn starch paste dries so hard? I’m going to check out some of those videos, because I’ve never heard of it before, but I really like the idea. Thanks for telling us about it. 🙂
Yes, there’s absolutely no paper mache at all applied to this.It is all strictly cotton balls and or cotton sheets with the cornstarch Slurry. LIttle tip rolled out cotton balls give a lot more texture and wave to your sculptures. If you’re trying to make wavy hair for instance. But cotton sheets smooth out the entire sculpture, and it’s such a beautiful piece ocne done, you can paint it or you can do the napkin and ore tissue paper on top of it like i did.
I have never heard of this method either. I just can’t imagine using cotton balls to smooth out to a flat surface. I’ll have to check it out on uTube. I really like the printed paper you used.
Thank you! And cotton balls once rolled out is easy to use and I love the final result. You should try it…extremely light weight as well 😉
Yes, there’s absolutely no paper mache at all applied to this.It is all strictly cotton balls and or cotton sheets with the cornstarch Slurry. LIttle tip rolled out cotton balls give a lot more texture and wave to your sculptures. If you’re trying to make wavy hair for instance. But cotton sheets smooth out the entire sculpture, and it’s such a beautiful piece ocne done, you can paint it or you can do the napkin and ore tissue paper on top of it like i did.
Sheri, I love the way you’re using fabrics with your animal sculptures – they look great! Do you have a special product that you used to make the fabric stick? Someone asked me for advice recently, and I couldn’t help because I’ve never tried it myself.
I use a cornstarch and water cooked paste. I first lined the entire thing with cotton. You can use cotton balls or medical grade cotton Sheets, it’s much more lightweight than paper mache or clay. You have to apply liberal amount of cornstarch Paste to the sculpture and then blend in the cotton…It dries rock solid. I then use a tissue paper with a design on it. And I use that same cornstarch.Slurry that I made to adhere it. There are many really good tutorials on YouTube showing how to do the cotton Art sculptures and I just applied this technique to your finished sculpture. The measurements for the cornstarch is one cup of water to 1 tbsp of cornstarch, cooked until thick. I would recommend using it all up completely or storing it in the fridge If you have any leftover. I am working on the deer buck, and I am trying to adhere felting roving to it.I’ll let you know how that turns out.
That is really interesting – do you mean you don’t need any paper mache at all, because the cotton and corn starch paste dries so hard? I’m going to check out some of those videos, because I’ve never heard of it before, but I really like the idea. Thanks for telling us about it. 🙂
Yes, there’s absolutely no paper mache at all applied to this.It is all strictly cotton balls and or cotton sheets with the cornstarch Slurry. LIttle tip rolled out cotton balls give a lot more texture and wave to your sculptures. If you’re trying to make wavy hair for instance. But cotton sheets smooth out the entire sculpture, and it’s such a beautiful piece ocne done, you can paint it or you can do the napkin and ore tissue paper on top of it like i did.