Make sure you are tearing with the grain. If you tear with the grain, you will get nice, straight lines, if you tear across it, you will get jagged edges like I am below. Most paper, including newspaper, has a grain. Tearing creates a soft feathered edge on the paper that will make each strip blend smoothly into the next instead of creating a sharp line when they are layered on top of each other.Īn efficient way to create strips is to stack about 6-8 layers of paper on top of each other and tear them all at once. No matter what kind of paper you're using, you always want to tear your strips, not cut them. We'll talk more about some of these later. Other good papers to use, are blue shop towels, rice paper, and tissue paper. It's also cheap, and using old newspapers means you are recycling something that would otherwise be thrown away! If you plan to paint your project, it can also be helpful to add a layer of plain newsprint over the newspaper to give yourself a blank canvas to work on. Newspaper is ideal here because it is soft and absorbent, but pretty strong. However, while papers like magazine and other decorative papers don't usually work well as the structure of paper mache projects, they can be used as a final layer to decorate a project in a process called " decoupage". Magazine paper, because of its shiny finish, will have the same problem. If you use this kind of paper, you will end up with a lumpy shape without enough structural integrity. It won't absorb the paste very well or sculpt around shapes smoothly. Regular printer paper, for example, won't work very well because it is too stiff and the fibers are too tightly packed. The crucial factors in choosing paper is that the paper needs to be porous and flexible but also fairly strong. You can use a lot of different types of paper to create paper mache projects depending on what kind of effect you're going for. Pendant lamp cord or Lamp making supplies to create a lamp style of your choice (check out Paige Russel's Lamp Class for some great lamp making instructions!).26-28 gauge wire to hold the thick wire together.Something to cast over (a large bowl, plastic container, vase, or other simple object).GlueAll, wood glue, wallpaper paste or ModPodge.Floral tissue paper, kite paper or rice paper.Newspaper, newsprint or blue shop towels.In this lesson we'll get started with paper mache by using this simple glue paste method and learning some easy techniques for creating shapes by casting over different kinds of objects. Glue also dries clear, which opens up some interesting possibilities for translucent projects like lamps. Using glue is very similar to using flour, but it creates a stronger structure that is less likely to rot. A few different types of glue will work, but most people use wood glue or white Glue-All. One of the most common, and easiest, ways to create paper mache is to use glue and water as the paste.
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