"Flamenco dancer" making

 

 Hand clapping, percussive footwork and complex hand and body movements are what make Flamenco a difficult but impressive art form. I do not dance but keen on making mixed media figurine with nuno felt costumes.

How to make it? See the observant guy..... he's telling it......

 

 

Mogi, "wondering what mum's up to.  She always said it's none of my business. I'm quite curious........"

 

Dipped the cotton stripes in Paverpol liquid, wrapped around the skeleton 

 

Intended to make it a dark beauty but found the face has stains, thus painted it in white aclyric 

 

Dried overnight.  Made the outfits with the "not-so-good" euc leaves printed silk chiffon by nuno felt.  

 

Made a nuno felt top with merino wool.

  

Fit into the body

  

Cut another two pieces of silk chiffon of the table dress shape and do the nuno felt.

  

Done the dress and put into the body

  

Wrapped the glass bottle with same fabric as stand

  

Mogi, "well, mum made it......"

  

Mogi, " I'm always the one behind a woman ........"

  

Ya, Flamenco dancer in nuno felt dress that has the rich textures and layers.

  

Ready to dance with the rhythm of the wave 

My heartfelt thanks to Sharon Gerhart who's so generous to introduce me the making of Paverpol I then further develop it with nuno felt.

More poses of the figurine here .

Linking with from-dream-to-reality party

A day with a Flamenco dancer

 

What is life? Do whatever I like, go wherever I want.....

Over the year, I've been trying sorts of fabric & fibre for my creation. All around wool and silk fabrics but with the introduction of Paverpol by Sharon Gerhart, I almost hooked to the making.  This one with the skeleton of wire and Paverpol, I made the nuno felt dress for the look of a Flamenco dancer.

 

With nuno felt skills I can easily handle layers,  textures and fit to right size.

 

The dress made with my "not-so-good" eucalyptus prints of silk chiffon.  The orange silver dollar color just fine for the dress although red would be perfect.

  

My bundle of beauties from ceramic to paper clay to now Paverpol

 

The size now is bigger and bigger and layers are richer.

Today I took the beauties for a beach walk in the bay of my studio, listening to the echo of

 wave .......

 

 

 After a beach walk.... stopped by the bay...

 

passed by the village houses....

 

Call it a day with latte and NY cheesecake. 

 

All the dolls I made with nuno felt I call them "Nuna".  This is the latest creation of Paverpol I love most.  Here's another post of detail making.