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Preparation for adding bark to the Mouse Manor<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Once I created the shape of main structure with kitchen foil and masking tape I then covered the whole of the outside of the house in a layer of black tissue paper. I glued the tissue down with watered down pva glue and then gave the tissue a layer of the glue mixture on top to make it extra strong. This created a good base for the paper mache bark layer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next stage was to cover the mouse house with a thick layer of paper mache, I scored bark texture into the paper mache with a plastic palette knife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once the paper mache was dry I then gave the whole house a coat of black acrylic paint as a base for the bark colour. I then painted a layer of burnt umber acrylic paint over the black paint, I allowed some of the black paint to show through to create depth. I then dry brushed a lighter brown and a beige colour over the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Preparation for adding bark to the Mouse Manor Once I created the shape of main structure with kitchen foil and masking tape I then covered the whole of the outside of the house in a layer of black tissue paper. I glued the tissue down with watered down pva glue and then gave the tissue a layer of the glue mixture on top to make it extra strong. This created a good base for the paper mache bark layer. The next stage was to cover the mouse house with a thick layer of paper mache, I scored bark texture into the paper mache with a plastic palette knife. Once the paper mache was dry I then gave the whole house a coat of black acrylic paint as a base for the bark colour. I then painted a layer of burnt umber acrylic paint over the black paint, I allowed some of the black paint to show through to create depth. I then dry brushed a lighter brown and a beige colour over the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[25,45,26,44,43,40,41,42],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mouse-manor","tag-112th-scale-dolls-house","tag-12th-scale","tag-cardboard-dolls-house","tag-doll-house","tag-dolls-house","tag-mouse-house","tag-mouse-manor","tag-tree-house"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxgloveminiatures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxgloveminiatures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxgloveminiatures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxgloveminiatures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxgloveminiatures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxgloveminiatures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxgloveminiatures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxgloveminiatures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxgloveminiatures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxgloveminiatures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}