Talk:Papier-mâché

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Simple recipe for papier-mâché

Materials

1. 2½ cups flour

2. 2 cups water

3. Large Mixing Bowl

4. Newspaper cut into long, thin strips.

5. Something to put the papier-mâché on; ex: balloon, as shown in the picture above

Procedure

1. Mix materials in large bowl using either hands or large fork. Mix until the substance is a liquidy paste.

2. Now you can dip the strips of Newspaper into the paste and put it on whatever you want to cover, like a balloon, as shown above.

3. If you'd like, you can decorate your artwork with paint, makers, etc. once it's finished drying.

For an alternate and easy papier-mâché, simply use liquid starch in place of the recipe above. Be sure you skim the excess off of the paper strips before you lay them flat, and don't use more than four layers. Overlap your paper.

Needed Information

Other historical artistic uses of papier-mâché.
Current use of papier-mâché in Art

I can lay hands on some issues of Sculptor or some such magazine talking about the latter, but not this week.

also needed

Some information about the Chinese precursor--new to me. And wasn't p.m. or something like it used for making the first stereotype plates in the 19th c.?DGG 04:12, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Edited image?

A look at the edited image that was deleted from article by original contributor.

File:Russian Lacquer Art Instaplanet Morozov.jpg

An example of a handpainted papier-mâché Russian lacquer box from Fedoskino [1].

Gregorydavid 00:23, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Gregorydavid, Here is the explanation: the original photograph which I had taken myself and uploaded to Wikipedia and linked in to different related wikis, this one among them, was tampered with. That alteration of my photograph was totally unacceptable. (I did not even know that such a thing can be done to wiki images...). I took out the image code on each of the wikis where the image was featured. Then I whited out the bastardized version in the image file. This was the only way to get rid of it. I wish this had not happened because the picture was a good and useful one. But the tampering made it necessary for me to take this step. I hope that clarifies it. CulturalUniverse 00:51, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]