10/31/2012 Booooo!!!!

My blog has taken a dark turn, boooooo..... a new look and a new outlook.

Our paper mache program, part 2, went very well.

The kids did a really good job with the molding of the masks and the painting part. I was really impressed because trying to get the flour paste newspaper to mold around the balloons wasn't all that easy. They did great!

10/8/12

Here's Mr. Oogly Moogly with his nose and lips on ...

...and here he is with color and yellow freckles!

He's not heavy but I'm thinking string to tie onto the kid's heads will not hold. I'm thinking maybe strips of cloth or something. Have to think on it.

10/5/2012

This is a paper mache mask that I started as an example for a paper mache class I'll be teaching on the 13th. I just blew up a balloon and started layering newspaper strips coated in flour water over the balloon. I used plastic water bottle caps to make the eye holes. Note: take the plastic caps out while the paper is still wet. It was hard to get them out when dry. So I'm now going to add a nose, some warts and little horns or little eyes on stalks (Halloween mask) once again using newspaper and flour water.  

I have not been weaving on the big loom and probably won't again. I've been diagnosed with arthritis and stenosis and warping the Big K has just become too much for me. However, don't cry for me Argentina... I am still planning a tapestry piece for my small Mirrix loom and I have gone full circle back to my love for collage and water color, so I'm happy.