DOORSTOP CAT
by Anne Antonia Beltane
(Teynham, Kent uk)
On guard?
I needed a doorstop for my bedroom door, and I love cats, and that mixed with a bit of imagination and a lot of paper mache resulted in my whimsical-looking DOORSTOP CAT!
I made a basic frame shape, appx 68cm in height, from chicken wire and covered that in masking tape.
I made up about 1/2 a kitchen bowl-full of paper mache pulp ( mixed to a 'clay' constituency) and covered the frame with it.
With the second coat, I padded out areas all over the cat to make the end result look more like a fabric patchwork effect, oh, and I also gave him a nose and made 2 buttons from the 'clay' for his eyes.
When he was dry, I painted the cat with acrylic paints, to look like patchwork material, painted his eyes green and stuck them on with bostik.
I added detail (stitching, whiskers etc) with a permanent black pen.
Anne Beltane July 2010
