Make Paper Mache Collage Bowls

This is a LiveBox class! From the comfort of your home, share an artisan experience with your friends, family or colleagues, or enjoy with like-minded others. Here's how it works:

1. Request your preferred time
2. We'll deliver a Box to you - this is a physical DIY craft box containing the materials you'll need. Shipping is free, and you'll get your box delivered in time for your class. We ship nationwide.
3. Enjoy the online class. You'll receive a link to a Zoom meeting. On the day of the class, use that link to join the class. Class sizes are kept small, so you can easily ask questions and get immediate responses. Zoom is free and easy to use, on any device. You're in control of your privacy - you can mute yourself and hide your webcam if and when you prefer.

Does paper mache stir up memories of claggy, thick, mushy impossible stuff that goes mouldy? It just doesn’t have to be like that! Paper Mache is an amazing material to build all kinds of things, fruit bowls, funky light fittings, sculptures, mardi gras masks - just about anything! Come along and try out this wonderful technique and create something awesome. No prior experience necessary.

There’s a better way to construct paper bowls and this class will show you how. Make and decorate a bowl while you learn this super easy and quick mache technique.

What will we cover?

• We will make a paper mache bowl decorated with something personal and meaningful to you.
• You will learn a simple technique and there will be no claggy porridge!
• We will give you tips on more projects you can continue with.

I have a mountain of vintage books and cuts I will include in the box, that I have collected for years. I hand pick each one and sometimes find them hard to let go! If you have any special books to cut up or old images bring them along to incorporate in your design. As long as they are matte (for the best results.)

In all cultures, ceramic vases and bowls have always been used to commemorate, a wedding, an anniversary or any significant event. The Ancient Greeks depicted epic battles, Keats wrote an ode to an Urn and now an artist like Grayson Perry explores his past on the surface of a vase. We are inviting you to celebrate and create a story on a bowl, use images and type, quotes from your favourite novel or fragments of a poem….but on paper mache not porcelain.

scissors, glue brush and sticky tape ($5)

You can add these when you book (optional).
 
No prior skills needed
 

• Decorative specialty paper
• Templates
• Glue stick
• Recycled paper to construct paper mache
• Surprise cut-outs

If you order the class and box no need to bring a thing except a ruler.

If you are just doing the class with out a box you will need
scissors
2 glue sticks
sticky tape
An old cereal box
matt decorative craft papers
A ruler
Modge podge or school glue to seal your bowl
A brush
Paper that is matt - like office paper or old paperbacks (NO newspaper!)
Images to cut and collage from matt papered magazines such as 'Frankie' or old books. No gloss paper.