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Yes, you heard me right......this is a paper sea pony.
I am taking a class in school right now, and we (just finished) the section on how to make paper.
I hand made all the paper and played a LOT before I chose to use the beige abaca for the pony.
Its double layered in the waterleaf stage, pressed and then I used a vacuum table to get the results (I was experimenting with embossing)
I cast an adult sea pony, and her shell and the one style of comb (I needed to pick and choose what I thought would register well embossed on paper) and she was cast in two halves....
I then cut those two halves to match as well as I could, and sewed them together (very carefully) with kind of a cross stitch.....
I chose to use recycled ribbon for her hair from work (its valentines, so we have lots of pink!) and she was rehaired with a needle.
Her pink shell and green comb I believe were just construction paper that I then made into paper...
If you look closely, you can sort of see the detail on the fins/her eyes came out embossed. She is very delicate and is hollow....and seeing as how she is just paper, can be crushed very very easily (we will say sewing her was quite the task...... and its the main reason I chose the beige abaca because it was stronger than the other ones I pulled using the coloured construction paper)
The paper is wrinkled from the casting process when it was wet....
I think she turned out pretty nifty, and I totally plan to sew together the other pieces I made
*Twinks*
I am taking a class in school right now, and we (just finished) the section on how to make paper.
I hand made all the paper and played a LOT before I chose to use the beige abaca for the pony.
Its double layered in the waterleaf stage, pressed and then I used a vacuum table to get the results (I was experimenting with embossing)
I cast an adult sea pony, and her shell and the one style of comb (I needed to pick and choose what I thought would register well embossed on paper) and she was cast in two halves....
I then cut those two halves to match as well as I could, and sewed them together (very carefully) with kind of a cross stitch.....
I chose to use recycled ribbon for her hair from work (its valentines, so we have lots of pink!) and she was rehaired with a needle.
Her pink shell and green comb I believe were just construction paper that I then made into paper...
If you look closely, you can sort of see the detail on the fins/her eyes came out embossed. She is very delicate and is hollow....and seeing as how she is just paper, can be crushed very very easily (we will say sewing her was quite the task...... and its the main reason I chose the beige abaca because it was stronger than the other ones I pulled using the coloured construction paper)
The paper is wrinkled from the casting process when it was wet....
I think she turned out pretty nifty, and I totally plan to sew together the other pieces I made
*Twinks*
