A month ago I featured work by Donald Baechler .
Sometimes when I put artist/illustrators on 'theartroom' I then go to the real art room and share it with my students as inspiration.
Once drawn they were cut out of cardboard. We then used newsprint that I mixed with hot water and blended to a pulp, to apply to the card. The newsprint pulp is quite strong and when it drys it looks like egg boxes. you can apply it to chicken wire for bigger shapes/ sculptures.
It is a very wet process but after a week they are dry and you can paint them. We incorporated narrow strips of wood and then stood the sculptures up by embedding them into wooden bases.
I really like the look of these. We must try using your pulp technique with our next chicken wire project - which probably won't be until the good weather comes back, it sounds quite messy so I think we'll do it outside. Our last experimental chicken wire project was for our garden - we're going to see if it disintegrates over the winter! http://thesockgarden.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/recycled-garden-sculpture-part-1/
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