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Paper Mache Lizard: Recommended Ages
Paper Mache Lizard: Materials
Paper Mache Lizard: Making Armature Base
Paper Mache Lizard: Making Head
Paper Mache Lizard: Making Tail
Paper Mache Lizard: Making Legs
Paper Mache Lizard: Wrapping Armature in Cheesecloth
Paper Mache Lizard: Prepping for Paper Mache
Making Paper Mache
How to Use Paper Mache
Paper Mache Lizard: Wrapping the Armature 1
Paper Mache Lizard: Wrapping the Armature 2
Paper Mache Lizard: Drying
Paper Mache Lizard: Painting
Paper Mache Lizard: Applying Face
Paper Mache Lizard: Drying Paint
Paper Mache Lizard: Displaying
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Summary: You can use a spray primer on your lizard if you want to. Learn how to make paper mache lizards from a professional art instructor in this free crafts video.
Kira Morrell, Owner of Create Art Studio located in Easthampton, MA has been teaching children and adults for nine years. She earned her degree in Fine Arts and Art Management from...read more
"So our lizard has had a few days to dry. He's nice and hard. The kids always get a kick out of how; what a sloppy messy newspaper lizard we had and now he's hard solid and ready to be painted. You can go ahead and prime this if you want with like a spray primer which should be done outside or you can just start painting. I like to use acrylic paints for painting on paper mache. It only increases the hardness because of the way that the acrylic dries. If we want to start with an acrylic we can also add a tempera glitter afterwards. When we paint the lizard we want to make sure that we are painting all the way around him. This is important because it's sealing it. By putting the paint all the way around every inch of this paper mache it's also going to help prevent mold, so this is a nice sealant. If the kids are having a hard time getting the paint in all those little cracks and crevices we want to put paint on the end; a lot of paint on the end of the paint brush and dab it in. It takes a little while for them to get it done, but it's well worth the end product if we can have a nice coating of paint on our lizard. We want to just keep continuing down the body, around the legs and on the tail with the paint."
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carrigee said
on 6/4/2009 The project never came in the right sequence. This was very dissapointing