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These are some artists that I find interesting from around my area.
Here are some other artists that use paper as a dominant medium.
Here is some information about the greatest food on Earth.
I don't read books much. But I liked these.
Papier Mache isn't all paper and glue. Here are some other things that I find useful.
Here are a few of my favorite non-art websites.
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The Papier Boy...just a boy with some paper, glue, and an anxiety problem
March 11 New Papier Boy SiteI am abandoning this site and creating a new one. I am doing my best to transfer much of the content of this site to the new site.
The reason I am doing this is because I have so many issues with Windows Live Spaces. When I try to log-in, about 80-90% of the time, I am greeted with an error message rather than the administration console. My frustration has peaked.
I am therefore going to use Blogspot instead. I have played around with it a little and I kindof like some aspects of it better anyway. So I invite you to visit the new site: http://thepapierboy.blogspot.com/
February 25 The Papier Boy 360I made a li'l video of some of my paper sculptures. It is a little grainy and unclear, just like the Zapruder film. And you can't really see who shot who. But it is short and has some nice music so you might like it.
You can watch it by clicking here: THE PAPIER BOY 360 Them bones...I completed my Farah Fossil sculpture the other day. It turned out OK. It took a really long time because it has so many pieces. All together, there are 139 separate bones:
I started by making a base and spine shape out of MDF and mounting the spine-shape to the base with two dowels. Each vertebrae was made from foam and afixed to the MDF spine-shape. Then the ribs (cardboard and wire) were added. This was all covered with paper towels and glue. The skull is a large newspaper ball. Each bone was created using either rolled-up newspaper, cardboard, or Model Magic clay. Some bones, like the long bones, are glued in place. Others, are held together by wire.
  
The whole thing was covered with paper towels, primed with gesso, painted with acrylics and aged with dark brown paint shot through an airbrush.
  February 05 Farah Fossil ProgressI am still working on my skeleton sculpture. So far, I have the spine, tail, ribs, base, scapula, and pelvis done and painted. The head, legs, arms, and feet are constructed and primed but they still need to be painted. There are a few bones that I haven't even started making yet, like the hands, teeth, pigtails, kneecaps, and parts of the legs and arms. I was waiting to get the base and spine done so that I can tell how long some of these bones need to be. I cannot estimate it until certain parts are in position. This is counter-intuitive and is making me uncomfortable. This is taking a very long time.
     December 18 Skeletal WorkAlthough I had swore off Garbage Pail Kids for a while, I started working on a sculpture based upon Garbage Pail Kids cards # 88a & 88b, Dinah Saur and Farah Fossil, respectively. I started by creating a base out of MDF (Medium Density Fiberboard). MDF is half the price of plywood. It has some pros and cons. But for this type of thing it is perfect. The base is simply two concentric rectangles glued together. I made them deliberately small so that the finished skeleton looks larger in scale. The spine is also made of MDF. This is covered in pieces of left-over foam that I cut and sanded into vertebrae. I want to get away from using so much foam. It is not degradable. But since I have so much left over from the Roy Bot sculpture, I figured I'd use it up rather than throw it away. So far, I really only have the head and pelvis finished but I thought it might be interesting to see some of the progress.
In my mom's attic I found an old book I had in college. It is The Ultimate Visual Dictionary. This is going to be invaluble for me in the future since it has detailed photographs of almost anything you can think of. It has great photos of dinosaur skeltons.
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