I love the way the girl is literally hugging a tree. These are my favourites.
Are you using Soft Fimo or regular? I think you must be using regular to get the level of detail. Is it more difficult to work with?
I also ding that even if I wash my hands between handling colours I still find the light colors get grubby. Maybe I just sweat too much. Do you find this? Do you use latex gloves?
I love the way the girl is literally hugging a tree. These are my favourites.
Are you using Soft Fimo or regular? I think you must be using regular to get the level of detail. Is it more difficult to work with?
I also ding that even if I wash my hands between handling colours I still find the light colors get grubby. Maybe I just sweat too much. Do you find this? Do you use latex gloves?
Well done. Fabulous craftmaship,
I started out using latex gloves, to avoid fingerprints mostly, but I kept changing pairs between colors and eventually burned through too many and ran out. I bought another box but accidentally purchased the latex-free vinyl versions, which left wrinkle marks all over the models. So, I just gave up the gloves--my wife hadn't been using any since the beginning, anyway.
We discovered that using a paper towel to wipe off our hands between colors was more than sufficient to avoid mixing colors, even for the very lightest colors (white and flesh).
We used a mix of Soft and Classic FIMO. We bought it all on a 50% off sale at JoAnn's Fabrics, so we couldn't get all of the colors we needed in the same type. I definitely preferred the Classic FIMO, though, as the Soft was really difficult to keep in shape after a lot of handling. We used a pasta machine to condition all of the clay, so it wasn't difficult to get the Classic FIMO into a workable consistency. Without the pasta machine, it would have been a nightmare--some of it was really hard.
One technique that I didn't figure out until near the very end (inexplicably, since it seems like common sense) was to construct and adorn the "head" of the piece directly on the metal wire that we later used to stick it on the body. That way, we could just hold the metal wire between our fingers and rotate and decorate the head without touching it--it helped a lot since the flesh was Soft FIMO. The green "father" farmer benefited a lot from this technique, since it kept his hair nice and poofy.
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One technique that I didn't figure out until near the very end (inexplicably, since it seems like common sense) was to construct and adorn the "head" of the piece directly on the metal wire that we later used to stick it on the body. That way, we could just hold the metal wire between our fingers and rotate and decorate the head without touching it--it helped a lot since the flesh was Soft FIMO. The green "father" farmer benefited a lot from this technique, since it kept his hair nice and poofy.
Thanks for looking at the pics and commenting!
Ah, so the head is on a piece of wire! I never would have guessed that, or thought of it. What kind of wire, something from the craft aisle near the Fimo, I hope?
