Clay flowers are much more durable than live flowers and are not so demanding on light and heat. At the same time, they serve as no less pleasant gift, and sculpting such flowers is a real pleasure.
It is necessary
- Thick wire (straight cut) along the length of the stem;
- Thin wire;
- Cotton wool;
- Napkin;
- Floristic tape;
- Clay;
- Paints;
- Live chrysanthemum.
Instructions
Step 1
Each flower has its own structure, so you need to sculpt a plant of a specific type, in our case, a chrysanthemum. Constantly looking at a living flower, copy it. Start at the stem: roll up a ball of cotton wool and attach it to the end of the wire. Wrap the cotton with a napkin, and on top with floral tape, wrapping the wire from the end with the cotton to the opposite.
Step 2
Roll a ball with a diameter of 4-5 cm out of a piece of white clay. Cover with grass-green oil paint and flatten. Roll in this clay-dyed stem blank. Use a knitting needle to apply longitudinal grooves, repeating the relief of the stem of a living chrysanthemum. Leave to dry.
Step 3
Cut pieces of thin wire into four pieces, each 2 cm longer than the planned length of the leaves. Roll the wire with green clay (you can use a different shade). Then roll another ball of clay (1 cm in diameter) to a flat shape and cut out the sheet. Make the edges look like the leaves of a living flower. Attach the wire to the center of the sheet. Apply glue to the wire if necessary.
Step 4
Press the blank of the leaf against a live leaf, pre-lubricated with moisturizer. Press down on the clay so that the relief of a real chrysanthemum is fixed on it.
Repeat with the rest of the leaves and leave to dry.
Step 5
Roll out the balls for the petals and paint them in the color of the chrysanthemum: brighter for the center, paler for the edges. Make several balls of different weights. Flatten the brightest into a cake, stick a cotton ball at the end of the stem wire.
Step 6
Further, changing shades from bright to pale, roll out and stick the petal sausages to the base. Make a thin cut in the middle of each on the inside. The central petals should be shorter and thinner, the outer ones longer and larger.
Step 7
When finished sticking the petals, let them dry and color the leaves and stem. Use a living flower as a guide: the bottom is lighter, along the edges of the blotches. Copy a live chrysanthemum.
Step 8
Make a sepal from a hemisphere of green clay. Give it a relief similar to the leaves and stem. Pass through the stem and press against the petals, glue if necessary.
Step 9
After the petals have dried, make thin holes in the stem to hold the leaves. Strip some of the wire on the sheet and dip it in the glue. Insert into the stem and press down. Form the attachment point from the remains of clay. Repeat with the rest of the leaves.
