I’m always thrilled when people use my books and videos to make something they love. Makes me feel like a grandpa to these projects. Here are some more photos of paper mache art people have sent to me. If you would like me to post your photos, send them to me at, dan@gourmetpapermache.com. Enjoy!
Brian is a master craftsman, not just with the paper mache art, but with the way he embellishes the pieces with home-made weapons and various props. His goblins are fantastic. Here are a few.
Yes, that goblin is on a Warg! Excellent!
And this is a Mordle (with eyes made by Brian’s daughter!)
And a dwarf complete with chain mail!
Here are a couple wonderful projects made by Gill Heritage. The first is her wyvern (a dragon with arms aside from the wings). Under that is her “Goats and Troll at the Well.” What fun!
Look at this adorable little monster made by Eric van Vugt! Wonderful!
A closer look at this mischievous face!
This is Juliane Block’s cute little monster! Just adorable. If you’d like to see a great little video just click on the photo!
Below is a fabulous monster made by Maxime Dénommé. Great work!
And here is also a dragon trophy made by Maxime. Wonderful!
Check out Patti Shirley’s six and a half foot tall alien! Excellent! And a perfect display! (You can see more of Shirley’s paper mache on page 35!)
Rychie Floyd made a great gift for his daughter! She made a drawing that she said was like him, and then he turned the drawing into a paper mache project! This is “Smug.” What fun!
Gordon is using his own techniques to great effect! Below are four of his excellent works!
Visit Gordon’s website for more information about his art, here.
First is “Leaping”
And “Hummingbird Moth”. These are very large!
And this is “Pelican King. ” It is a smaller piece.
And finally “Scorpion Snake”. All great works!
This is Hannah Wilson’s first paper mache dragon, a little baby! What a beauty it is!
Here is Hannah’s latest dragon, a darker one. Beautiful!
Bill Stringer is making some excellent paper mache dragon trophies! Here is Bill with Vol-Arynn (red dragon) and Lapil-Rim (the blue dragon). You can see more on Bill’s Facebook page.
A close-up of “Lapil-Rim” Great job!
Here is Bill’s “Cern-Uannos”. Great horns!
And another green dragon!
Finally, this is Bill with “Flutterix”, a project he made for a sick little girl. It doesn’t get any nicer than that!
This is Florentyna Leow’s “Amabie” which represents a supernatural spirit in Japan. Excellent work! You can read about the making of this project on a newsletter, here.
Check out Marc Tsakiris’ amazing version of “Tik-Tok Crok!” Just beautiful work!
I’m always thrilled when people use my books and videos to make something they love. Makes me feel like a grandpa to these projects. Of course other people have their own techniques. Either way, it’s great to see other people enjoying this medium. Here are some more photos of paper mache art people have sent to me. If you would like me to post your photos, send them to me at, dan@gourmetpapermache.com. Enjoy!
Here is Paul Ferrara’s paper mache dragon trophy appropriately titled, “Yin and Yang.” Beautiful job! See more of Paul’s work on his website, www.paul-ferrara.com.
Here you see Jan’s dragon. While some people have struggled to fill their “Covid time”, Jan used it to create this fantastic piece of art! Congratulations!
A closer view of the face.
Here is Nancy Schall’s first dragon trophy. Magnificent! Excellent work!
Here is Nathan Kirk’s first paper mache dragon. And a magnificent dragon it is! This is Nathan’s version of Maleficent. Great job!
Her is Denise Wilkin’s first paper mache dragon. Love the expression! Fantastic job!
Below is Aaron’s first paper mache dragon! Wonderful job! Great personality!
And here is Aaron!
This is Heather Murphy’s “Amethyst Dragon”. Beautiful! Love the colors!
And Heather got some well deserved publicity recently for her new pieces! Here is is! j Congratulations!
Memory Bradley just finished her first dragon. What a beauty!
And here is Memory’s dog sculpture. Excellent job!
Andrew Sheshunof’s just finished this paper mache masterpiece! You can see his video about this dragon here, https://youtu.be/XsiVdWerK9M.
From the front.
And it has lights inside the mouth! Excellent!
And a close up. Great work Andrew!
And below is Andrew’s newest dragon! Fantastic once again!
And here is Andrew with this new project. They compliment each other!
Below is another great dragon made by Andrew. Very nicely done as always!
Here is Beth Kroeker’s first paper mache dragon. A beauty it is!
From a different perspective. Wonderful!
Below are two great projects by Jeff Fibus. The first is a cool starfish, the second a “Fantasy Fish”. Wonderful!
Cheri Rose is making some excellent dragons down under (in Australia). Below are a few of her masterpieces! If you’d like to see more about Cheri and her work visit her Facebook page. Look at this metal dragon!
Here is a beautiful red dragon. Underneath shows it with the l.e.d.s light up!
And here is Cheri’s Blue dragon. Wonderful!
And a tranquil, sleeping dragon.
Finally, here is Cheri’s dragon trophy! Great work!
Okay so check out Daniele Pons’ dragon costume! Amazing! This costume won at the Venice Carnival 2020 (Italy), a well deserved honor! Titled “SAN GIORGIO E IL DRAGO”
Fabien SAVIGNOL’s son wanted a dragon. So Fabien used my video to make a dragon for his son. What a great job! What a great dad!
Below is Carmen Martin’s “Blue Dragon”. Love the blue in contrast with the eyes! Magnificent!
Myles Konstantinos made his first paper mache dragon trophy. And it is a beauty! Wonderful colors and detail! Here is a photo from the front and then another close up.
And below are a few photos of Myles’ “Alien” series. Excellent!
And here is his “face hugger”! So cool!
And of course the alien pod! Fantastic project!
Below are some of Eb Jones’ wonderful dragons!
Eb also makes fabulous baby dragons! Samples below
And here is a gator made by Eb.
Tom Hering is an artist living in Germany. Below are a few of his excellent progress. First is his “Sir Daniel Fortesque.” Terrific!
A closer view!
And here is his Red Dragon….
And his Tom’s Green Dragon. You can see see a short video showing the making of this dragon here. And you can see more about Tom’s work here.
Just in time for Halloween! Look at this great “Scary Doll” made by Sam, Isaac, and Bessie Madden! Wonderful!
Below is David Angelo’s red dragon. Here it is on display. Fantastic!
Crystal Heller’s decided to make paper mache dragon. She set to work and look at what she made! Fantastic!
These are Mandrakes inspired from the Harry Potter series. Vivien, who lives in Germany, made these. Wonderful!
Here is Tristen MacArthur’s first paper mache dragon head! Very nice!
I’m always thrilled when people use my books and videos to make something they love. Makes me feel like a grandpa to these projects. Here are some more photos of paper mache art people have sent to me. If you would like me to post your photos, send them to me at, dan@gourmetpapermache.com. Enjoy!
This is Duain Kelaart’s Animatronic Sea Dragon. It is really fantastic. Operates with motion in front of it. I can’t put the on this post, but you can see it in YouTube, here. You can see more of Duain’s excellent projects lower on the page. And you can see a lot more information on his website, here.
Here is Ivona Velinovskis’ first paper mache dragon. Beautiful job!
And here is Ivona with her dragon. A great match!
And here is Ivona’s newest project. Love the lights. Love the attitude of the animal! Beautiful!
Check out Jeff Mongloux paper mache dragon! Jeff is on the left. 🙂 Excellent!
This is Duain Kelaart’s paper mache dragon. Very nice job! Check out his Youtube channel, “DK Arts.”
And Duain has made another fantastic Animatronic Sea Dragon! Excellent work! So great in fact that it was featured in a book and website that you can see here.
Here is Duain’s latest project. This is his Chupacabra – Gargoyle Hybrid. Just fantastic!
Here is Duain’s halloween project this year. A fantastic Werewolf! You can see a photo progression on Youtube, here, https://youtu.be/VcTL4m7VxOw
Another great project by Duain. A lovely mixture of 2 and 3D. Great work as always!
And here is Duain’s newest 2D/3D masterpiece! You can see a video of this build here.
Agnes Klein-Orban is a paper mache artist living in Vienna. Below are three of her wonderful pieces, three beautiful women!
Here is a great “water dragon” trophy made by Maygan Frederick. Fantastic!
Here are some terrific sculptures made by Nareth Fernández. First, two great owls!
And look at Nareth Fernández’s dragon and cool monsters head! Excellent!
Here is Mark McCauley’s first dragon. Fantastic!
Check out Kim Wendelin’s great dragon trophy! This on her first attempt! Excellent!
Here is Tamaka Bailey’s eagle. What a great project!
Here is Uwe Luckhardt with his second paper mache dragon head! You know what they say about two heads being better than one! Excellent job!
This is “Craig’s Ice Dragon.” This is fairly large project, about 2 meters tall! Very cool!
Below is Kipp’s first paper mache dragon trophy. Magnificent!
This is an ugly, and beautiful, little monster named “Burp” made by Barry. I always love a good monster!
And here is Barry’s newest project, his “Terrordactyl”. The project is articulated and the wooden mechanism makes it fly. Excellent!
Speaking of great monsters, my friend Don Hagemeyer has been making them for a while n ow. Here is one who just had a monster-make-over. Meet “Mr Green, Hello Good Bye.” Fantastic!
Here is the first dragon made by Meredith Leopard. Fantastic!
Below are some projects made by paper mache artist Pamela Spiro Wagner. All great! To see more of her work go to her blog, https://arteveryday365.com
Here is “A fanciful Dr Geuss.”
This is “Decorated Betsy”
And Pamela’s “Giant Dream Tortoise”
This a “Life-size paper mâché psychiatrist John Jumoke”. Amazing!
Here is a fantastic display of dragon trophies made by Ross Sprovieri. He made these as a display for his business. A great display indeed!
Justine Pipitone used my videos to make some wonderful trophies for family and friends. Lucky them! Here is Justine with “DeSoto.”
And this is Justine’s “Kratos.”
Heather Forster really loves paper mache. It shows. Here are a few of Heathers wonderful projects!
Elizabeth Mason made her first paper mache dragon, “Argoth the Terrible.” What fun! (That’s Elizabeth with Argoth)
Duane Berry just finished his first dragon. Very nice!
Duane also made this “halfhalf” minion for his son. Lucky!
David O’Gara’s made this fantastic dragon puppet named “Shiela.” Just amazing.
Here is a close-up of Shiela. Great face!
Here is a dragon made by Jools Dumbrell for a theater production on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Very striking!
Look at this great newborn dragon made by Ann Wright. So cute!
Anne MacKinnon made this wonderful dragon named “Audry III.” Love the paint job on this! Just excellent!
Here is another great dragon Sandra Bäumler made using one of my books! Love the movement of this piece!
Guido Reuter watched my dragon trophy video and made this excellent “Firedragon” for himself. Really great job!
Catriona’s made this great head dress of a snapping turtle! So cool!
Here is George Chave’s first paper mache dragon. Fantastic! Wonderful energy in this one.
Magda lives in Poland. After watching some of my videos she decided to make some of her own projects. Below is her dragon trophy, and under that, her “White Dragon” costume. Excellent job!
And here is Magda’s newest “Blue Dragon.” excellent once again!
Here is Bert Houbrechts’ little dragon. Lots of personality! Excellent work!
And a few dragon trophies. Below is Alexander Wachsmann’s first paper mache dragon. Very nice job!
This is Marissa Plowden’s “unemployment” dragon (because she made it while between jobs. So great!
Christopher Re has decided to fill his workspace with dragons. He is well on his way with these two excellent trophies!
This is Milton Montaño Rojas’ dragon. Wonderful colors! Very nice dragon!
Hannah Mae Sovinski has been making some great monsters! Here is one of them.
Akhilesh made his son a wonderful paper mache minion! Here it is with his son, Bhaumik.
Koni Lanzius’ made this wonderful dragon, VAKAROS! Beautifully done!
And here is the rider on the dragon. She has her own costume!
Koni has just finished another wonderful piece, this time the Elf King from Lord of the Rings!
Some close-ups….
Thomas Rozek makes GREAT masks! Some are paper mache, some are more mixed media. But they are all very cool. Here are a couple. If you’d like to see more, visit Thomas here.
Check out his Scorpion mask! Two angles.
And Thomas calls this “Casual Friday Mask”. Wonderful!
Janet Davison has made two great dragons (so far!)! They have each won awards at a local state fair! Great job!
Chris Gilbert decided to give his cousin a really cool wedding gift. And he did! Look at the paper mache dragon he made for him! He named it “Prometheus” after a character in Dungeons and Dragons. Fantastic!
Patti Shirley has a wonderful sense of humor. She made this paper mache “PENNYWISE” in order to sneak it into her brother’s bathroom and give him a scare. I guess it worked! It certainly would on me! What a fantastic rendition!
Patti has just finished this fantastic rendition of “Groot.” Excellent!
Shannon Gray decided to make her son, Evan a great Halloween costume. So she made this “‘Sorceror Dragon” for him! Fabulous! What a lucky kid (and talented mom)!
Jeanne Greenleaf made this incrdible “DragonChicken!” Love the expression!
Jeanne has also made a number of excellent fish! A sample below. Great work!
Check out this fantastic dragon trophy made by Marko Salomäki! Love the textures and colors. Excellent job!
If you like Tolkien, you’ll enjoy this dragon! This is Maygan’s version of Smaug over the Lonely Mountain. Fantastic!
A closer look is warranted, especially the fire that she added!
Nipsolass Clark has been making some great masks the last couple of years. Here is his fabulous gremlin mask! Wonderful!
And here is Nipsolass’ Triceratops mask! Incredible!
And Nipsolass finished a couple more fantastic masks before Halloween. Check out this dinosaur/dragon mask!
And this very strange character!
Look at this adorable photo of Alex holding her first paper mache dragon sculpture! (She had some help making the dragon from mom, Jessica) Wonderful!
Bill Wehmeier made a great paper mache dragon for his Halloween display this year. It is about 5 feet tall! Fantastic!
Below are some excellent dragons made by Gord Merritt. First are a couple of wonderful babies!
This is just a page with photos of a few dragons. Most are old photos, from back in the day when cameras used film and you had to get them processed at “One Hour Photo” (which always took a full day), resurrected from boxes.
I thought I’d start with my first paper mache dragon, made in 1980-ish. His name was Punk. He was supposed to be a young dragon, almost fresh from the egg.
Punks stands about 5 feet tall. I still have him in my studio, although he has fallen into severe disrepair. In fact, I just took his eyes to use for my latest iteration of Drogon (the young adult version). It’s a bit sacrilegious to do such a thing. But, it’s also kind of the circle of life when it comes to paper mache art.
Now the second paper mache dragon I made was his mother. It was also the first drogon trophy I made. I wanted it to look like his mother, big and protective. She also had to have features that would lead you to believe that punk would some day grow up and like her. Now the photo of punk is terrible by today’s standards. He actually had elements of orange and red on him. And she had elements of green on her that matched her son’s colors.
I am severely disappointed that I never got a photo of them displayed together, as they were intended. He stood underneath her in my grungy, little, monster-making apartment by the zoo. She hovered over him protectively. They were a perfect pair of dragons.
Some other older dragons include the one that hangs over my bathtub.
A little closer look.
And then there is this red dragon. It was very large and very heavy. I donated this to a school that is housed in a public building at the base of the Space Needle (in Seattle, where I live). They are the “Center School Dragons”. It is permanently displayed outside the front door of the school. Sorry, this is a terrible photo.
And another older project, a paper mache “Sea Dragon”. It is obviously based upon those little sea dragons that live in the sea.
As opposed to another paper mache Sea Dragon that I made within the last couple of years. It is still my current, favorite dragon.
I really like the baby in the nest.
Speaking of babies…here is a dragon I made as a commission . It was supposed to be a “toddler”.
Here is another older project that I made for my daughter, Allison. It is titled “Family Jewels”
I forgot. Here is another very old paper mache dragon. I show it because it has a very different shape than most of my dragons. I wanted it to look more like a dinosaur, a raptor. Hence the short neck and stubby head.
I do want to mention another little dragon I made in conjunction with a baby lion. I call this project “Parallel Paper Mache”. I tried to maintain parallelism in every aspect of the two pieces, the same basic shape, the same look on their faces, the same attitude. It was quite a challenge. I think it turned out very well.
I’ll end with a notable project. This are not terribly old, but interesting. Here is a piece I call “Double Trouble.”
I made a dragon for my friend Pascal and his family. Here he is. If you are interested in how he was made, you can see this on my blog, here.
One of the interesting things about this dragon is that when he is hung like this, he looks to be surveying the ground, perhaps looking for little children to eat.
When his vertical, he looks ready to fight.
From the back
And a close up. I think the color of the eyes make them really pop.
I have been asked for years to make paper mache sculptures that could stay outside. In fact, weatherproofing paper mache is kind of a holy grail of paper mache artists. Many have tried. Many have failed. I’ve made feeble attempts in the past. By that I mean I’ve just put a few things outside for a while to see how long they would last. They didn’t last long. The thing is, newspaper absorbs moisture. That’s why we use it after all. But this time I’ve made something that just might be the answer. This paper mache dragon is my most recent experiment. I have put it in the apple tree in my front yard. I’ve watched it for more than four years now. It has withstood Seattle weather without any deterioration. I’m surprised.
Watching over the neighborhood
Looking for children to eat
The thing is, he has become a landmark on Queen Anne Hill where I live. Every kid knows my dragon. He has to last now. I’m not ready to declare success. But I’m very optimistic. I’m willing to say that the process I used describe will last at least 5 years.
So what did I do? I used “exterior” grade wood glue instead of flour and water paste for the initial paper mache stage. Then I used the same glue for the “cloth mache” skin. Then I painted the project with exterior grade paints. Some people have tried sealants. I have too. I don’t like them. They change the paint. The clear layer takes away any subtlety in the color. Who wants something that lasts forever if it looks bad?
I love the Game of Thrones. I decided to make a few paper mache Drogons, parallel to their appearance on the TV series.
Here is the first. In George RR Martin’s books, Drogon is the most fierce of the three dragons. He is black with red markings.
Baby Drogon
Viserion was born next. In the books he was supposed to be a creamy white color with gold markings. Here he is just breaking out of his egg.
Viserionbronze
That leaves the third dragon, Rhaegal. He was born last, as you can see. He is a green dragon with bronze markings.
Rhaegal
Now I know that in the books, and in the TV series, the three little dragons were born in the fire of the funeral pyre of Daenary’s husband, Dothraki Khal Drogo (I’ll be he was teased as a kid!). Dani (as I like to call her) went into the fire with her three eggs. In the book, when the smoke cleared, Rhaegal and Viserion were feeding on Dani’s breasts, and Drogon was on her shoulder. Perhaps you can see why I took the artistic liberties I did in these renditions. Once again, I have blog entries of these being made if you are interested. You can find it here.
And, I have a time-lapse video as well. Just click on the Rhaegal’s egg above.
Now Drogon did get older. Here he is as a juvenile.
And as a young adult (I had to make a trophy since the full dragon would have been way too big!). I have time-lapse videos of juvenile and young adult Drogons. Just go to my Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/GourmetPaperMache to watch them. And subscribe if you haven’t.
