Paper Mache Flowers
Our paper mache flowers were sculpted using pulp to give a 3 dimensional effect to the picture.
We started by pasting some old hessian sacking over a piece of masonite. Once this was dry we roughly sketched in the sunflowers and then used watered down acrylics to wash in the sky and the grassy hills.We deliberately left some of the pencil marks on the background to give it a sort of rough look. Once the background was dry, we used pulp to make the frame. We coated it with undiluted PVA glue and pressed sand into it once the pulp was dry.
To make the sunflowers we pressed the pulp into the pencil drawing. We used our fingers to rough up the centres to give them texture. Once the pulp was dry we used artist acrylic to paint them. The final job was a couple of coats of matt polyurethane varnish over the whole picture, frame included.This work was a commission and is now in a private collection in the UK.
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