Paper mache head

For a while now I have been keeping an eye out for a mannequin head for photographing my earrings. No luck. I found some online that were $3...

Mannequins are used to display fashions and dressing a mannequin properly often distinguishes a product, increasing sales. Small shops, accessory stores, and decorators may not want to buy a whole mannequin when they have to only display...

My students had so much fun constructing giant papier mache heads. I posted earlier this year about the construction process for this project, but I wanted to follow up with this post on the final …

You haven’t lived until you’ve made a giant paper mâché head. Well, maybe that’s a bit of a stretch, but it is pretty exciting. I’ve found that teaching 3D art in a school w…

In early October, my Sculpture I. class and I embarked on what came to be known as the “Big Head Project”, aka The Headline. Each student picked a celebrity and based on that character,…

It’s June, and that means Halloween preparation is well underway! This here is the very early stages of making a dozen paper maché severed heads! I’ll post a few pics of the heads in progress below; full article coming soon! Check back around September-ish to see the rest!

Grade Level 9-10, 11-12 Duration Six weeks, 50 minutes periods Materials 5-gallon bucket/round trash can, cardboard, masking tape, x-acto knives, plastic grocery bags, newspaper, art paste (flour and water also work for paper mache), paint, and anything else you may want to use for hair and eyes (we used softball-sized whiffle balls). Media Sculpture Lesson […]

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