Part 3 – DIY Flower Chandelier – I Have Flowers!

So I returned that clay and obtained this one. And these items is wonderful!!

It took me some time to get my flower making approach down. I made an entire lot of flowers earlier than I got here up with the suitable measurement sample for the petals, the suitable variety of petals, the suitable overlap of the petals, and many others. 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 formulation down, I’m hoping the remainder will go a lot quicker.

To roll out the clay uniformly from one flower to the subsequent, I lower 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 lower two skinny strips out of the center and set these strips apart.

I used these straight lower edges to chop the petals. I had made patterns for my petals out of spam. I used two sizes of petals, and lower 5 of the small ones and 7 of the big 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 lower and pressed collectively.

Subsequent, I took every petals and squeezed across the edges to eradicate the lower 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 lower away the surplus strip, after which rolled up the petals, ranging from the left aspect with the small petals, and persevering with to roll them up till I had this…

Right here’s what it regarded like from the highest…

And right here’s a aspect view…

After which I simply began squeezing the underside space collectively to type 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 lower off the surplus clay on the backside…

After which I caught a 3/16″ metallic rod by the middle of the flower. This is identical measurement metallic rod that I used to type the body for the chandelier.

After which I trimmed up the underside of the flower to offer it a cleaner look…

And at last, I dipped my finger into water and used it to clean out the lower edges.

And that’s it! It’s a reasonably enjoyable course of, and I can inform you that I’d a lot slightly be doing this than constructing something proper now. I want these enjoyable, inventive, simple tasks once in a while. And I’d say that my confidence degree has elevated to about 95%. 😀