Easter's on the Way

Here's a little cotton tail, hopping down the bunny trail.
This bunny was made with the Rycraft  mold from Arnold Grummer. I followed the instructions for making a paper cast with cotton linters, then let it dry. After gluing the dry paper cast to a jar, I surrounded the bunny with bright green pulp. The inside of the jar was coated with sky blue paint. I like the 3D effect I got from the paper cast and the thick paper pulp.

Here is a similar scene with a more colorful bunny. I used chalk to color the paper cast.

Magnolia Paper Cast

I love flowers!

There is something so intricate and delicate about the  Grummer magnolia cast mold, I can't stop making them.

Colored chalked produced some beautiful effects. They remined me of those lush draperies from the Forties.

Ink stamp pads also worked well.

I like the little squares just as they are, but I had to try them on glass jars.  Place the wet cast directly on the glass jar. Used the mortise techniqiue to cut a frame out of a sheet of new wet paper and lay that sheet on the jar as well, placing the opening over the cast.