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How To Make Papier Mache Puppet Heads
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- Intermediate
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About this lesson
A puppet builder's technique for sculpting a clay master head with exaggerated features, applying roughly ten layers of papier mache over it, then slicing the dried shell in half to remove the clay and rejoining the two halves before sanding and painting.
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