Had fun this summer messing around with polymer, but now come fall, back to porcelain!

Flumo Halloween Pumpkin Person

  Experimenting with Flumo and one of my old miniature molds. Painted with acrylic.

              Received my "Award of Excellence 2014" from doll magazine. Yippee!
                                         I won in the artist ball jointed doll category.

 

Painting on Flumo is much faster then porcelain of course, and it's nice to be able to finish a face in an hour. Always a learning process, I'm sure I'll get better at it.

  Put Together

I put her together quickly but I did not line the joints with leather or finish painting her arms and legs. I'm making new hands for her since I'm not happy with the ones I have at present time.
 

                Maybe making some flumo dolls would be interesting, it certainly is faster!

    FLUMO

Flumo is an interesting medium. You have to use plaster molds, but it air dries,

which is nice because you need no kiln. It's pretty strong too, and can be polished to a porcelain finish. I use it mostly to make prototypes but have considered using it to make actual dolls because it's so easy to use.
   Here is a prototype I decided to paint. I usually never paint prototypes because I use them to make molds for porcelain. But I love to experiment and am somewhat pleased with the result. I painted the eyes with acrylic and pastels. The pupil and eyeliner are acrylic, but then I used wet pastels with a brush to color the rest of the eye and lips, not to mention a bit of shadow around the nose and nostrils.