#papiere

[moldspace]

i made some papier mâché fishes

[itscolossal]

From Junk Drawers to Phone Books, Artist Bernie Kaminski Captures the Nostalgia of Banal Items Through Papier-Mâché

[datgreenmonstah]

Here is part two of the paper mache mask tutorial for those interested

[wszczebrzyszynie]

dzisiaj by wracali do szkoły więc ich ubrałem na galowo + zrobiłem sobie naklejki trochę spontanicznie więc rozmiarowo są niedopasowane ale są. a tak w ogóle dwa proponowane shipnejmy to rybemo i rymek (to brzmi jak postać z pana kleksa) co o tym myślimy koledzy. ja nie wiem czy jestem fanem ale one chyba nie ważne co będą brzmieć głupio więc eee odpowiednio do postaci

[clawmarks]

Papier à motif répétitif - c.1860 -  via Paris Bibliotheques

[ashleabechaz]

Sweet little koi boi filled to the brim with recycled soft plastics and scraps of cardboard 🙌

I made this trash koi fish to add to my crappy wall of dodgy masks and alters #blessthismess

Created using rubbish, paper mache and acrylics 🐟

[tracingpapier]

i can't even formulate a description here just know that they mean so much 2 me </////3

[amphibianaday]

day 1679

more angles and a singular progress pic below

[vincentbriggs]

Mr. Fiberglass looks very dashing and extremely gender. May I ask how you made that mask? It looks great and I may want one for myself 👀

Thank you!

It was 8 or 9 years ago so I don't remember it super well, but it's mostly cardboard and papier mâché. I built the base using cardboard boxes and a lot of masking tape, and you can still see some of the tape and cardboard inside the snout.

I made the horns by cutting 2 identical spiral shapes out of cardboard, and stretching them like a slinky, which is a much easier way to get them to spiral and be symmetrical than starting out with a straight thing and curving it. I'm pretty sure I bulked them up and got them to stay in that shape by taping lots of wads of crumpled up newspaper to the sides.

I covered the whole thing in layers of very cheap paper towel and Elmer's art paste, and used that to add a few little ridges and such.

The texture on the horns was made by just wrapping one long continuous strip of paper towel around and around, straight off the roll. (It was the really cheap stuff with no perforations and with obvious flecks of recycled paper in it.)

I have a piece of polyester batting shoved into the top because I didn't quite get it to the same shape as the top my head, and it's a bit uncomfortable.

It's also very hard to see in! I looked at photos of real sheep skulls for reference, and I put the eyes further forward to account for my human binocular vision, but they're still really far back and hard to see out of, so you have to look out the nose too.

I seem to remember first painting it with glossy acrylic paint, and then repainting it with matte paints because it just doesn't look as skull-like when shiny. The shading is awful because acrylic paints dry so dang fast, so it might be nice to go back and refine the texture a bit and repaint it again someday, but that's not at all on my priority list right now.

I hope this helps, and that you have fun making one!

[spritecranverry]

Don't ask

[antonomase]

Macron be like :

Courage les gars, encore trois ans à le supporter.

[moldspace]

earlier this month i had the amazing opportunity to spend a week in southeastern alaksa for school (the last 3 credits of my associate's degree program!) learning about the ecology and history of the region.

it was a completely fucking jam-packed 8 days of hiking, tidepooling, fishing, kayaking, sightseeing and immersing in a part of the country you literally can't drive to (only fly or boat to). and at the end of it all i was able to contribute a little piece of my art to the lodge, presenting Salmuel the giant papier mâché salmon to our lovely hosts as thanks!! it was truly an unforgettable experience and the perfect capstone to my little degree program.

...but i think next time i have to bring a delicate art piece on a plane, i'll make one that's a little smaller and easier to handle LOL

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Pliage de serviettes

[syncallio]

I got one more Esterbrook J, and this one is black.

And also quite possibly stolen from someone's place of work.

If you're wondering what the imprint means, Bell System was an American telecom monopoly. They basically owned the entire phone system in the USA from 1899 to 1982, when the federal government forced them to split up. To this day you can find signs like these in older neighborhoods:

I shudder to think what things would be like now if they hadn't been split up.

The Bell branding on this pen is noticeably deeper than that of the Esterbrook imprint. Seems, I dunno, symbolic?

Anyway, it's a good pen, and I delighted in filling it with ink that would have been Improper in its former office days.

[vimbry]

oh my god are you serious

[clawmarks]

Ceiling border - c.1875-1906 - via Cooper Hewitt