First Anniversary for our Blog - Clay Flowers Tutorial

Today, we complete one year of blogging with Art Hours, our FB page. The aim of this blog was to train and guide students and beginners in different arts and crafts forms. During this last one year, we have had a stream of students coming and going, we conducted workshops for students, ladies and corporate staff too. All in all, as we taught we also learned. Hope this journey of ours continues for a long time successfully. So, as we complete our 1st blog anniversary, here's a small tutorial we thought we should share with all you readers and art enthusiasts today.

1st Blog Anniversary

It was an easy exercise done with my 8-year-old kid today. So even if the picture above looks all pretty, it was not a very difficult exercise at all.

Materials used:

Super light air dry clay, Colors used: Red and Green

Advantages: It is really very very light but sticky on hands. So what we did is apply talcum powder on our palms before we started using it.

Tools required: 

Toothpick or a sharp tool for making the indentations. Toothpick is also required for making the stem's body.

Procedure to make the Clay Flower:

Step 01:

For the red flower, we simply started with small balls of clay and flattened them between our palms. We started from the center and added one layer of petals after the other. Thereafter, we inserted a toothpick from the bottom side of the clay flower to make the stem and add the leaves.

Step 02:

For the stem, we have inserted the toothpick as mentioned in the last step. Next, we took a lump of green clay and rolled it around the toothpick covering it completely. Once the stem is covered with the green clay, we added the leaves.

Step 03:

For the leaves again, we took a small lump of green clay, flattened it between our palms. Then using a toothpick we made some indentations to add the details for the leaf. We added 2-3 leaves under the flower.

Step 04: 

Last but not the least, leave it to dry. We have kept it for drying it naturally, hoping that it will dry within the next 48 hours.

01 - Super Air Dry Red Color Clay
02 - Super Air Dry Green Color Clay

As you see in the picture above, all we needed for making these beautiful clay flowers was the clay itself and toothpick. Try it out in your homes too. It's an easy DIY project and doesn't need many tools. We plan to make more such tiny flowers for gifting purpose.

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