Ears - Do Over

The more I look at the ears sitting on the table, the more I see flaws. The clay is too thick, and you can see the irregular edges where I pinched it with my fingers. Fixing it onto a wire form and baking a blob as a headband makes it heavy.  I'm really starting to hate them a lot. So in true artistic fashion, I'm going to toss that effort and start again!

I went back to the Sculptamold shape that I had pressed into the plastic toy boat. I used that as a base form to support new roll-outs of FIMO. I want to save my squares of red for the face mask (that I have not yet made!!!!) and I had some big chunk of off-white leftover from a phase in my life when I thought of making dolls. I only had one Sculptamold form, so I baked left and right ears in 2 stages. See the pencil lines?

Then, I am painting the beige FIMO with red on one side and black on the outside. This keeps them thinner, if I am not trying to make 2 layers of already-colored FIMO in red and black. I cut the edges before baking so they are nice and crisp. FIMO as a polymer material takes really well to the cheap acrylic paint in a tube. The plan, now, is to stitch these new pieces onto a fabric headband with fake fur to match the hood. Let's see how that looks! Halloween is now only 35 days away!!