Past Work - Teapotty: Papier-mâché
 | Completed teapot. It's surprisingly strong and very light! | |||
 | I used the plaster moulds I'd already created to make wax teapots. I covered the mould surfaces with Vaseline and then pasted in several layers of bits of ripped-up newspaper using wallpaper paste. At one stage, I put the moulds in an oven to try and accelerate the drying process. I filled the half-teapots with sand so they didn't start curling as they dried - hence the mucky look in this photo. | |||
 | I had to do a bit of extra pasting of bits of newspaper around the top of the teapot to provide an appropriate shape for the lid to it in. I made the lid in a similar way to the body - using the 2-part plaster mould that I'd made for wax teapots. | |||