This is the beginning of sharing projects I’ve been working on since Lockdown 2 Day 1. As I said, things like this need time to dry so I’ve been working on them in spits and spurts, allowing for drying time, errand time, Netflix time and inspiration time.
I’m still working on new stuff so hopefully projects won’t stop coming now and I won’t have to bore you with recipes!
The idea for this was to make a Paros cat, but turns out I made a fat british shorthair instead…
Well, thats ok. I finished her in blue and white tile patterned napkin decoupage and made her pretty anyway.
Paros cats are slinkier and generally thinner. Except for Fatcat. She’s an exception. Still… I need to work on my cats. I just don’t know cats the way I know dogs so this was harder for me. I’ve been able to paint cats but not really sculpt them.
Anyway, the process was similar to the bulldog – starting with cardboard shaped and held together with masking tape. Then papier mache newsprint over the top. I then added a layer of papier mache pulp to smooth her out and create her face and paws. Lastly I decoupaged parts of her in a blue and while napkin and painted the rest to make it really white as the pulp is a pale grey naturally.
Below is a gallery of the process. If you click you can enlarge the photos.
Cardboard and masking tape. 
Newsprint to hold it together. 
Paper pulp to create paws. 
Paper pulp to smooth body. 
Painting the white bits white. 
Drying. 
Not entirely happy with her, as I said, but she’s ok for a first attempt at a cat.
I’ll work my way to finding ‘my’ cat…
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junk4joy 
I love fat cat! We have a few here at home! They are on special diet cat food. I like the blue and white napkins you coated her with.
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