I found this great project on the Dick Blick site. Deborah Butterfield was our inspiration. She is famous for her beautiful horse sculptures made from natural materials.
We looked at many examples of her work and then got busy creating. Each artist found a photo of an animal to work from, and started by tracing the animal's contour line. After adding a layer of wax paper on top of the tracing, each artist recreated the animal with fast drying paper mache using the traced lines as a guide to build form. Before finishing, artists were encouraged to use the natural materials we had gathered from our school grounds to embellish and strengthen their designs.
Next, collages were created with painted tissue paper to build a high contrast background for each sculpture. Once the sculpture were dry, we attached them to the backgrounds with hot glue. We learned that it is better to create thick forms as the mache is very fragile. The final pieces were some of my favorites so far this year. They are now proudly on display at our local Tully's.
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