Creating flowers with clay can produce some amazing result
that can add a permanent floral addition to your home or are perfect as a thank
you gift that will last forever.There is an endless list of flowers that can be created and the more practice and experimentation the better your skills will be. There are lots of different types of clay that are perfect for flower sculpting. This post offers a few examples of the types of flowers that can be made with cold porcelain clay and stone based air dry clay using, a variety of techniques and tools.
Cold porcelain clay and polymer clay provide a much finer detail than some other clay's and are perfect for using with silicone mould or giving the petals a more realistic texture.
These pretty sunflower style flowers are made up from a variety of mixed mediums. The flowers are made from cold porcelain. A silicone mould was used to create the very detailed flowers and then they were hand painted. They are attached to fine craft wire and set in a large lump of air dry clay as it provides added weight and structure to the pot. The leaves are cut from thick green card and shaped and attached with craft tape.
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| View Silicone Mould |
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| View Craft Wire |
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These lovely blue flowers are made exactly the same way as the previous ones except they are cut out using daisy flower punch cutters, which are sold as sugar craft tools but are also perfect for lots of clay projects. In fact many sugar craft equipment and techniques are exactly the same as clay work. Sugar craft tools are also often much cheaper than clay tools so it is always worth checking them out.
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| View Sugar craft Plunge Cutters |
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These pretty flowers have been created using a silicone mould for the flowers and a metal leaf cutter for the leaves. After cutting out the leaf shape, mould it around the craft wire to give it a more realistic shape.
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This lovely smiley faced flower is made from Das air dry clay. The face in made from a ball of clay rolled in the hand and then flattened slightly. The petals are made from several small balls of clay which are squeezed between the thumb and forefinger to make a petal shape and then slip and scored onto the back of the face.
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| View more Sugar Craft Tool |
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| View More Air Dry Clay |
Below are a number of other clay's that are also great for making pretty floral sculptures, click on the image to read more about them and where you can purchase them:
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| View Fimo Polymer Clay |
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| View Premo Sculpey Polymer Clay |
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View Lumina Air Dry Clay |
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| View Hearty Lightweight Clay |
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| View Lunaclay |
Happy Sculpting!!