How to create a starfish with

paper machè I PART

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Required
Cardboard (also recycled) of middle thickness.
Sheets of toilet paper torn from small pieces.
(or a liquid glue that doesn't quickly dry).
Glass paper of middle thickness.
Cotton wads.

For first thing to draw on the cardboard the outline of the starfish
or other subjects to like (as the example in the photo).
to cut out them and to prepare them on a sheet of newspaper or a
magazine not to stain the table during the phase of the job.

Where the starfish is perforated

Starfish pattern to natural greatness

To dilute glue with little bit water but it doesn't have to be too
much liquid: Then attention to the relationship glue-water.

To take few cotton wads for time and to dip them in the glue,
therefore to squeeze well them for with the fingers.

To put the wads on the outline of the starfish trying to fill her
for well to make to take her form and to make it compact.

To fill for well all the empty spaces helping itself with some utensil
for sculptural or a small spatula.

To model with the hands.

Hardly the starfish is compact and she has taken thickness to begin
to put above the cotton the small pieces of toilet paper bathing the
paper with a small brush.The beautiful one of this workmanship is
that the toilet paper wet becomes a malleable and amusing mash to be
worked even if him it is beginners.Then to proceed then with the
spatula to give to him a form the more possible homogeneous.

Once gives the correct form to the starfish to practise her hole
where thread will be inserted, pearls etc. and to put her to
dry outside to the sun to lean on a support of paper and to
practise with one fences or a pointed utensil of the dividing lines.

When the starfish is dried to proceed with the workmanship of the

back.To detach the paper watching out for not to ruin her and
however the paper been stuck will return to place when it is returned
to space the bits of toilet paper with the water and the glue.
This time they don't serve many of it, the main point it is to cover
the cardboard.

To rotate the edge of the brush along the anglings of the starfish
because to completed job the stuck paper is not owed more to notice.
This job serves for getting at the end a perfect job.

To leave again to dry to the sun and use a glass paper before
proceeding with the final coloration.

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