Paper Mache Lizard: Wrapping Armature in Cheesecloth

Video Transcript

"So, now we've built our wire armature and we're ready to start the paper mache process. That begins with the cheese cloth. Again, this is what we find in the painting section of a hardware store. It's got several layers to it so, we're just going to cut off a piece, unroll it and cut. It opens up. We want to keep it at a double layer. By keeping it at a double layer it allows the paper mache to hold on a little bit better. This is a critical point to paper mache that we sometimes miss and it makes everything a lot easier. What we're going to do is we're going to wrap the lizard in the cheese cloth. You're going to do that just like you would with a present and as tight as possible. So, you're just going to take it around and use the inside of the body and the inside of the head for gathering that material and if it doesn't stay, if there's some excess, it can either be cut off or it can be stapled on, because again this is going to be wrapped in paper mache. So, it's not that important how great it looks. We just want to make sure that the entire armature is covered. Like right there; that is a place I would use the stapler; just like that. Then I just want to make sure that we can still see the shape of the lizard. If it's not perfect and it's not sticking together that's OK to because it's all going to be paper mached in a couple of minutes."