June 2021
Beginner
128 pages
3h 20m
English

“I haven’t done papier-mâché since elementary school!” say most of my adult students at the beginning of a new class.
It was the same for me. Papier-mâché and I became reacquainted when I was 30. I made a hilarious collaborative puppet show for my friends and created all of the puppets. I needed a very specific character, so I decided to papier-mâché it. It was poorly done; I used wire, which isn’t my ideal sculpting material, and paper towel with a bumpy texture to create the papier-mâché. But there was something to it. . . something lumpy and silly, something charming.
After digging a little deeper into papier-mâché, I began teaching ...
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