Category Archives: papier mache

JOSETTE from torso to finished

At first Jo was just a paper mâché torso I had made last year, with a body stuffed with newspapers and plastic bags. But I decided to give her a body worth waiting for. The arms were separate, from a Halloween display I had slapped together a few years before.

Below, this is Jo as she first ended up. Just a minimal torso with a head.

Josette is part papier mâché and part polyfill-stuffed cloth and part Apoxie-sculpt, plus other materials. Here she is before I dressed her.

Josette is almost finished here (just need to do a little tinkering.)

Recent Art – Teabag Paintings and more

I removed the tea from used teabags and opened up the packets, washed and dried them, then painted on them. These are about 3” by 5” without frames.

Surgeon Figurine

Mixed media, 14.5” tall


MILLICENT

First version made in hospital, the last time i was there.
second version replaces first, now with cat in her arms.

MY INCLUSIVE BAND OF PAPIER MÂCHÉ MUSICIANS

This quartet is papier mâché, all women, but I tried to include as many different types of people as I could (so far)…of course not all peoples are represented, as that would be impossible with just four individuals. But starting with the pianist, we have a zaftig, older, white haired crone, with beige skin; the guitarist by contrast is tall and very slender, and dark of hue; the singer is Latina, and because of cancer and the treatments, she is missing a hand and her hair; finally we have the young prodigy drummer, a tiny Asian “jeune fille” who has to play drums that are sized to fit her. And in case you are in doubt, I made them all, each one, from materials I had on hand. 6” to 14” high

Nous Toutes Ensemble

Lady Liberty and dying asylum seeker child

Piétâ de la Liberté (almost finished except for child’s face and hair) life size papier mâché

Meerkat for Inclusion Center, Brattleboro, VT

Meera is made from 2-liter soda bottle and paper mâché

Meera the disabled Meerkat with cane and hearing aids, for Brattleboro, Inclusion Center

PICU papier mache!

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