Graduation Bear Paper Mache
Date: High School Senior, 2010
Time: Several hours across a span of several days
Materials: For bear: Newspaper, dry, powdered corn-starch, water, glue, brown paint, black sharpie marker.
For hat: black construction paper, light colored string, yellow marker, tape, glue.
Adobe PhotoShop to put the pictures together.
Description: A cute brown bear with a black graduation hat that has a yellow tassel. Cap is removable.
Artist Comments: I wanted to experiment with paper mache and didn’t know what to make until a friend invited me to a graduation party and I decided to make this as a gift since they really liked teddy bears. (Though after I made it, I seriously wanted to keep it…)
First, I made the paper mache paste, which took several hours as I got distracted by how awesome corn-starch feels when you mix it with water (you should try it sometime, it is as if it is a liquid and solid in the same substance). Then I finally started making the pieces of the body. This took a long time, as many pieces had to be duplicated and resized through the experimentation. After letting them dry, I put them together and let it dry. After that, I painted it brown and put eyes and a nose on it with a sharpie marker.
Then I made the hat which was just a square piece of black construction paper and a long strip, which I taped into a circle shape. Then I cut the top of it so that I could glue a flat side to the top part of the hat. The string was difficult because I did not have any yellow string. I took some light-brown-like thread and colored it yellow with a marker. Then I cut it and made it look like a tassel with lots of tying and cutting. Then I attached it to the hat and put the hat on the bear. I wrote the date, logo, etc. on the bottom of the bear and then took a lot of pictures because I loved my creation so much! Also, the sun was hitting the paper in an interesting way; I thought it looked artistic, so I took a few pictures of it with the bear.
Time: Several hours across a span of several days
Materials: For bear: Newspaper, dry, powdered corn-starch, water, glue, brown paint, black sharpie marker.
For hat: black construction paper, light colored string, yellow marker, tape, glue.
Adobe PhotoShop to put the pictures together.
Description: A cute brown bear with a black graduation hat that has a yellow tassel. Cap is removable.
Artist Comments: I wanted to experiment with paper mache and didn’t know what to make until a friend invited me to a graduation party and I decided to make this as a gift since they really liked teddy bears. (Though after I made it, I seriously wanted to keep it…)
First, I made the paper mache paste, which took several hours as I got distracted by how awesome corn-starch feels when you mix it with water (you should try it sometime, it is as if it is a liquid and solid in the same substance). Then I finally started making the pieces of the body. This took a long time, as many pieces had to be duplicated and resized through the experimentation. After letting them dry, I put them together and let it dry. After that, I painted it brown and put eyes and a nose on it with a sharpie marker.
Then I made the hat which was just a square piece of black construction paper and a long strip, which I taped into a circle shape. Then I cut the top of it so that I could glue a flat side to the top part of the hat. The string was difficult because I did not have any yellow string. I took some light-brown-like thread and colored it yellow with a marker. Then I cut it and made it look like a tassel with lots of tying and cutting. Then I attached it to the hat and put the hat on the bear. I wrote the date, logo, etc. on the bottom of the bear and then took a lot of pictures because I loved my creation so much! Also, the sun was hitting the paper in an interesting way; I thought it looked artistic, so I took a few pictures of it with the bear.
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