From: "Mark S. Segal" <segalpuppets-AT-comcast.net>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:59:06 -0500
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Papier Mache


If you want to go fast...don't use styrofoam. Use crumpled up newspaper with 
masking tape for the basic sculpt and finish it off with three coats of 
mache. I like shopping bags and newsprint  - last coat bags  ie heavy craft 
paper - keep the printing toward the inside. Then cook the head at about 
250....or use cardboard for the sculpt with newspaper or whatever. DON'T 
COOK styrofoam. But mache does cook and harden very well...
as far as durability - I have sets of puppets out there made like this for 
that last for YEARS!

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Trish Place" <tplace-AT-tconl.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 10:42 AM
Subject: [Puptcrit] Papier Mache


> Hello all!  I have just been hired to create a set of Punch and Judy 
> puppets
> for a high school Madrigal Dinner that students will perform.  I'm going 
> to
> make them out of paper mache, no clay/plaster negative because there isn't
> time, and I wanted input as to what paper type to use?  I've heard brown
> paper sacks are great and also red rosin paper.  Any ideas?  I'm sculpting
> them around Styrofoam eggs.  This needs to be quick and fairly easy which 
> is
> why I'm doing the paper mache.  The production is only on 1 weekend, but I
> still want them to be somewhat durable.  Thanks!
>
>
>
> Trish Place
>
>
>
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