Papier Mache
It’s funny how an idea can sprout wings and take-off (dreadful pun entirely intended), such as it has been with these bonnie birds. It’s rather refreshing to have something I can make out of papier mache that doesn’t take forever and a day and that isn’t a bowl! Aside from this pair I’m hatching three [...]
Continue reading about more bonnie birds … an obsession in papier mache!
I’ve been watching Jolene create her fabric finches for months now, I suppose it was inevitable that I would end up taking some inspiration from them and feeding it into what I’m doing myself … indeed, Jolene alluded to as much here. The WIP previews she gave there though have long since been finished, and [...]
I had promised to have this finished by April 2009, so obviously I’m delighted to have finished it before it goes a full year past my own self-imposed ‘due date’! Like most of his erstwhile and largely forgotten friends Gruber is keen on world domination, although it’s perhaps telling that he and his cohorts are [...]
I made a new bird. The process has been somewhat arduous and there have been many poor deformed creatures along the way. It’s taken me such a long time of thinking before I finally plucked up the courage to create a new design. It seems so silly now but I was so pleased with the [...]
It’s been commented on in the past that there are strange things going on in the dark recesses of my mind, that they seem to bleed out into the light through what I create … I think ‘they’ may have a point. I seem to have a raft of canvasses lying around and despite repeated [...]
I was messing around at the weekend and decided to try out something new with the bird pattern. It’s the same pattern but made with printed cotton rather than felt. I quite like the finish. This is very much a prototype. I’m working on a series of love birds for wedding cake toppers and this [...]
It’s always a bit of struggle for me to get back into the swing of the craft thing following the festive frivolities, of course it hasn’t helped that we were on emergency fuel rations until our delivery arrived Wednesday and I had to spend the next three days shifting it up the hill to the house [...]
Regular readers may well recall these bowls in their original form, you can see them here. As then they were blue, and they are finished with varnish. What is different is the depth of the ‘sub-coat’ I apply to these pieces, the method in which the paint was applied and finally the varnish used is [...]
I first became aware of Helen’s work a few years ago when I began dabbling with papier mache and was just beginning to see the possibilities it offered beyond what we traditionally think of when we hear about this much under-rated material. I had tried my hand at making a mask with mache and Helen [...]
This is the final set of mushroom inspired paper pottery bowls, the other sets can be seen here and here. All three sets were made using the same set of moulds, although despite this I think they are all quite different in terms of shape, of course the variation in colour also helps to accentuate [...]
Continue reading about Mushroom bowls in red ~ the final set
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