I’m nonetheless engaged on this closet chandelier mission, and I’m very enthusiastic about the way it’s going. Yesterday, I shared that I had some issues making the flowers as a result of the clay I selected to you employ caught to every part it touched. It was not possible to roll out that clay and mildew it or minimize something from it.
So I returned that clay and obtained this one. And these items is wonderful!!
It took me some time to get my flower making method down. I made an entire lot of flowers earlier than I got here up with the correct measurement sample for the petals, the correct variety of petals, the correct overlap of the petals, and so forth. So by the point I went to mattress final night time, I solely had 9 of the 38 flowers that I want for the chandelier.
However not less than it was a enjoyable and stress-free day attending to play with clay. 😀 And now that I lastly have a system and components down, I’m hoping the remaining will go a lot sooner.
I’ll present you ways I made the flowers, after which provide you with a peek at one of many flowers on the chandelier kind.
To roll out the clay uniformly from one flower to the subsequent, I minimize some scrap strips of 1/4″ wooden to 1/8″ thick and used these as guides to roll out the clay.
I purchased this little acrylic curler to roll the clay, and it rested on the guides to make it uniform in thickness.
Then I used my X-acto knife and minimize two skinny strips out of the center and set these strips apart.
I used these straight minimize edges to chop the petals. I had made patterns for my petals out of unsolicited mail. I used two sizes of petals, and minimize 5 of the small ones and 7 of the massive ones.
So every flower consists of 5 small petals, seven massive petals, and one lengthy strip of clay from the 2 strips that I had minimize and pressed collectively.
Subsequent, I took every petals and squeezed across the edges to remove the minimize marks, after which I used my finger, dipped in water, to spherical them off and clean them out much more.
After which I pressed every petal into the strip of clay.
I continued doing that, overlapping the petals by half.
I did the entire small petals first…
After which did the seven massive petals, persevering with to overlap them by half.
As soon as the entire petals had been pressed onto the strip of clay, I minimize away the surplus strip, after which rolled up the petals, ranging from the left facet with the small petals, and persevering with to roll them up till I had this…
Right here’s what it appeared like from the highest…
And right here’s a facet view…
After which I simply began squeezing the underside space collectively to kind extra of a flower form, whereas additionally working with the petals to bend them out and provides the flower some form.
As soon as I had it how I wished it, I minimize off the surplus clay on the backside…
After which I caught a 3/16″ steel rod via the middle of the flower. This is identical measurement steel rod that I used to kind the body for the chandelier.
After which I trimmed up the underside of the flower to provide it a cleaner look…
And at last, I dipped my finger into water and used it to clean out the minimize edges.
And that’s it! It’s a fairly enjoyable course of, and I can let you know that I’d a lot fairly be doing this than constructing something proper now. I want these enjoyable, inventive, simple tasks from time to time. And I might say that my confidence degree has elevated to about 95%. 😀
I nonetheless have to trim the “stems” on the chandelier body to the correct top, so I didn’t need to connect the flowers but. However I used to be curious to see what not less than one would appear like. So right here’s a peek. I adore it!
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