Make Animal Sculptures with Paper Mache Clay: How to Create Stunning Wildlife Art Using Patterns and My Easy-to-Make, No-Mess Paper Mache Recipe

This book is excellent for showing concepts and techniques for making animal sculptures with paperclay mache. Not only that, Jonnie Good has made some excellent You-Tube tutorials on paperclay mache sculpturing. She is such a gentle and kind person when doing those tutorials, and watching her you can just feel her passion. Her lessons are easy to follow, but what I love most about her, she gives her students the option to do their own thing. She never pressures you to do exactly what she is doing, and she does not dictate outcomes. She encourages you to be independent making your own sculptures. Her paperclay mache recipes are the best you can find,and many artist are now using her paperclay mache homemade recipe. If you are interested working with paper mache clay then buy this book, also look for her webpage. I hope she is making plans to write another book, I will be the first person standing in line. I cannot tell you enough, Ms. Good is truly an excellent artist with tremendous talent. She has developed an individual style that is hard to beat. Buy her book and visit her webpage. You won't be sorry.

Jonni Good's Book will launch you into working with paper mache. It is a fun book. With clear concise instructions to make small paper mache animals. She also has a YouTube station called UltimatePaperMache. This woman is a pioneer in modern day paper mache. She has five recipes for paper mache recipes . See what you can learn in addition to what she teaches in this book. You will be astounding by watching her live with step instructions as she works on piece. She has been YouTube for man years now and if you subscribed to her. You will get to see everything she has done over the last decade.

Make Animal Sculptures with Paper Mache Clay is well thought out book with lots of great information about making 3D art. The author gives you the basics of what is needed, safety tips, even the recipes for the mache clay, and the patterns in the book. She takes you step by step guiding you with instructions and lots of close up clear images of what she is explaining. Her instructions are very precise and easy to follow. What a wonderful book to have in my craft library! Thank you for such a great book.

I find this book to be extremely helpful. I've always thought about trying to make animals out of paper mache. This book shows you exactly how to do it, complete with patterns, list of needed items and how-tos. I think the author's paper mache clay is what makes these animals so easy, and so much fun to create. The paper mache clay is soft and flexible while wet, allowing you to create fine details like eyes and nose, but when dry is hard enough to sand. There are a variety of projects in the book, and I can't wait to try doing them all!

I love working with the homemade paper mache recipes as described in this book. It is a very simple step by step book of instructions that are very easy to follow. I used a different method of construction for the armatures than what this artist uses, but I like to apply a skin of the paper mache clay over top of them. It saves me a lot of money to make my own rather than buy the pre-made paper mache clay and the recipes for the clay and the home made gesso are very good and easy to follow. I just finished my first real project which looks quite professional. Because of the level of detail I was able to achieve with the paper mache clay, people who saw my project were very surprised when I told them it was paper mache.

Love this book! Easy to use and she doesn't leave out little important steps but also leaves room for you to make all the projects your own. This wonderful author has perhaps restored my faith in humanity because of her willingness to share her beautiful gift of art and love for people. May she be blessed. The projects are so much fun and each one includes a new step in the learning process. This book is a " recipe" - follow it and it WILL turn out right!

When I became interested in paper mache. I looked on the internet and found Jonni Good's Ultimate Paper Mache web-site. Because of what I learned there I purchased her book. It has been a thrill to see the plans that can be accomplished with such an affordable and versatile medium. As a gifted artist she shares her passion for paper mache with those who take an interest in the craft. Her book is great. It begins with the basics that make it easy to start a project and works up to more advanced designs.

This book will guide you through the steps for making your own animal figures, clearly and easily. Jonni has ironed out all the problems with paper mache by inventing her own "paper mache clay" and overcoming the limitations of traditional glue and paper strip or pulp paper mache. She demonstrates a clever way of making armatures that keep the animal shape in correct proportions, and filling in the figures before coating them with a smooth, detailed outer layer. An inspirational book.

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What a fabulous book! We wanted to make a papier mache penguin so we used a pattern and the directions in this book and people tell us we did really well. I'm not very arty but the pattern was quite easy to transfer onto squares we drew onto some foam board. It took us some weeks but we got there. Because we made an actual size penguin we had to reinforce the feet quite a bit with a LOT of layers of papier mache and we even added a bit of thin plywood for more strength. The model is going into a school so we also reinforced the beak with a bit of metal coat hanger. And for extra realism we added some real glass eyes from an lovely specialist shop in Wales. If i did this again i'd use acrylic paint for everything! Much more expensive but it goes on much better. I should say we used the old school method of papier mache using strips of paper. In the book there is a more sophisticated method but we didn't try it.

Franchement ce livre est super pour comprendre les bases du Paper Mache ! Je ne suis pas très à l'aise avec la langue de Shakespeare mais les tutos sont hypers simples à comprendre, beaucoup d'images illustratives... D'ailleurs pour les fans, l'auteur a un site web super bien ! ;p

Perfect book which as I expected