Papier Mache

There is nothing so relaxing as getting up to your elbows in glue and newsprint. Quite surprising really, because when I was at school I hated covering half withered balloons with bits of paper and flour and water paste! Recently however, I have got back into papier mache in a big way. Since my first tentative attempt at a mirror frame a couple of years ago, I have progressed into much bigger and better things and I have even had my work published in national magazines. Papier mache art can be extremely elegant or can have a naive charm depending on the look you want to create and there are two main ways of making papier ...