Fomic Sheet

Types of Fomic Materials

There are many varieties of formic paper such as foam core, foam board, or paper-faced foam board that are all lightweight and easy to handle.

Professional Use

Even though fomic sheets look childlike and fun they are extensively used by adults when creating props for theatre and model making artists. The material is soft and can easily be cut, folded and moulded into numerous shapes.

Artists often use it for mounting of drawings and photographic prints to frame their works as they work well as backing for final framing.

Additional Advantages 

Fomic sheets have an infinite number of colours, they are available in packs and sold as single sheets. Their special variety that has a self-adhesive surface or a magnetic back which make pasting onto hard surfaces seamless and effortless. There are simple solid coloured and glittered sheets that instantly add more texture and depth to art projects. 

Material 

The Fomic sheet has elasticity and durability that come from the thick polystyrene or polyurethane foam that is blended in with a cotton archival paper or common brown Kraft paper to give it a paper-like quality. .