Very nice work, Oriole!

I especially love that pirate!

What kind of interior reinforcements do you use?

Sue

Of course, you can!  I don't know much about that end of it, so I will contact the site owner and she can help you out.

Sue

p.s.

Other artists from the Philippines who have galleries here are Arnold Barredo, Eric Cordero, and Owen Calera.

Sue

hello ma'am jackie,

thanks for your help... i wrote a request moments ago and hoping i could join you all soon...

cheers
oriole

Let me add my pleasure at seeing your work, Oriole.  Great sculpture!  I hope you take up the suggestion of showing your work in the artists' gallery on this site.
DavidO

Lesley, I think you, the maker have to be first to look at paper mache as a valid fine art medium. If you don't how can you expect others to take pm seriously? Honestly I never experienced any stigma (did not even hear about it before reading this thread) attached to pm, it's a material as acceptable as any other. If you walk into galleries you'll see all kinds of unusual, untraditional sculptural materials, the sky is the limit.
I haven't sold many pieces yet, as I'm fairly new in the field, but the ones I did I sold them at fine art prices. I never experienced any negative reactions from anyone regarding my chosen medium. I look at it as something that distinguishes me from the rest, and a lot of people seem to remember my pieces from shows and exhibits.
Embrace your chosen medium and if you produce art, sell it accordingly!

Some ideas for PM seem awfully dumb to me, like adding ground dog kibble to the PM pulp mix.  ("That was delicious, Mom!").

Others are so clever that you immediately think, "Why didn't *I* think of that?!"

Most of them fall in the middle somewhere, and you think, "Maybe....." and you won't know if it's viable until you try it yourself.  And even then, it may need some tweaking until it's suitable for what you're doing.

In other words, don't try something entirely new on a complicated project and waste a lot of valuable time and effort.  Try it on a small, simple, trial  piece, and determine if you should keep working with it, or if the idea was dumber than you realized.

We won't go into the details of my 'great' idea for a cheap, simple greenhouse that I attempted to put together yesterday.  It looked okay on paper, but that little thought of 'why hasn't someone done this before?' should have been a red warning light.  Someone probably DID do it before, and it didn't work then, either.

Live and learn, but do the learning as cheaply as possible.

Sue