I finally finished my Unicorn – or, to be more precise, I finally painted him and wrote the 33 pages of instructions that go with the pattern. This Unicorn was designed more for adults than...
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Make A Baby Unicorn with Apoxie Sculpt
How to Make a Life-Sized Baby Elephant with Paper Mache
$2.99 - Even though this sculpture is big and I used a power saw to make the wooden armature, Elsie is not difficult to make. It isn't a complicated sculpture, just a big one. This pattern has been...
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Mother and Son Make a Baby Elephant with Paper Mache
Karen Lanchester sent me this video of herself and her five-year old son making this adorable paper mache elephant. Karen doesn’t have a YouTube channel, so she gave me permission to upload the...
Make a Great Blue Heron Sculpture with Air Dry Clay and Apoxie Sculpt
Today we have a guest post from Kelly Richard, who shows us how she made this Great Blue Heron. You can see from the progress photo on the right that Kelly managed to get some great feather...
Make a Dragon with Paper Mache
Making a Dragon With Paper Mache Clay, Part 1
In this video, I show how I made the clay form for my dragon’s head. This might not be the best way to do it, since I’ll now have to create the armature for hte body the right size to fit...
How Cindy Made Her Paper Mache Dragon
We really have a treat today! Cindy Williams agreed to show us exactly how she created her fabulous paper mache dragon. She’s given us tons of photos and many detailed instructions, so this...
Make Paper Mache Masks
Matt Lyon’s Paper Mache Theater Masks
We have a real treat today – Matt Lyon gave me permission to post an email he sent to me last week, along with photos of some fabulous masks he made for a recent theater production. And now...
How to Make a Portrait Mask
This week I used a photo of Charles Laughton to make a portrait mask for Halloween. The photo of the actor was taken when he played the hunchback in the 1939 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. As...
Faux Trophy Mounts with Paper Mache
Bongo Antelope Trophy Mount – Adding the Paper Mache
The Bongo Antelope faux trophy mount is finished, and I’m really happy with it. I can’t believe I never played around with “painting” a sculpture with tissue paper before. Of...
Highland Cow Faux Taxidermy Mount
Several people have asked me to make a paper mache trophy mount, and this week I decided to give it a try. It took much longer than I thought it would, and I made a lot of changes along the way, but...
Paper Mache Projects for the Home
Woodland Baby Mobile
What fun – a hand-made baby mobile with cute little woodland creatures, made with air dry clay. Our good friend Eileen Gallagher designed it and made it, and now she’s teaching us how it...
Paper Mache + Decoupage = Amazing!
Today we have a guest post by Natalie Wargin, a painter, sculptor and digital artist. She agreed to show us how her decoupaged bowls are made, and she also describes her technique for building tables...
