Once the armature was completed students dipped strips of newspaper into glue and layered the paper over the armature. After applying several layers of newspaper and allowing them to harden, ...

Paper, in its simplest form, is flimsy and two-dimensional. When it's layered and hardened, however, the material can become anything: a bowl, a bookshelf, even a chair. Before the era of mass ...

I make an armature out of foam for the larger pieces or thick paper for the smaller pieces, and then papier mache on top. Sometimes I use a paper clay for fine detailing.