Monday, September 18, 2006

Basic Methodlogy

1. Wash your hands thoroughly before working with clay for protecting dirt contaminated and well being mixed with the color needed.
2. Clean up all equipments after used.
3. Allocated the clay for each used, wrap with plastic bag to avoid loss of moisture.
4. Curving the edge of flower petal and leaf by putting on the plastic bag, so the petal and leaf look natural. Then slide with fingertip through the ends.
5. Rolling with small roller stick for delicate the flower petal, if you want more delicate, you must roll it slight and narrow.
6. Rolling with small knotted roller stick for curving leaf e.g. lotus-petal, you must use the suits roller size, and let it air-dried before rolling
7. Color painting step, if possible, you should know what is the real color of the flower to make sure that the color painted is the same.
  • Squeeze out the oil color for single uses on the cleaned mirror, ceramic, or cleaned back of the hand.
  • Select the brush with the suit size, use only single color with brush
  • Shade the color from pale to dark by adding more color
  • Wash the brush after each used with acetone
8. For making the miniature flower, there are many kind of flower-petal and leaf plate (actual size).
You can practice with the mold that made from the plastic as cutting block – including the budding and pollen that is similar to masterpiece. Finally, you will have the correct shape and scale.

Materials & Equipment
1. White clay 14. Sheet spreader or PVC tube
2. Oil color 15 .Plastic bags for clay spreading
3. White and green wire no. 26 28 and 30
4. Wmall sharpen roller stick
5. Small knotted roller stick
16.Plastic bags for colored clay
17. Hand lotion (colorless) mold and plastic bag
6. Small sharpen scissor 18. Small colorful artificial pollen
7. Forcep 19. Small knotted roller stick
8. Sharpen forcep 20. Wire plier
9.Plastic-leaf and plastic-flower-petal 21. Ruler
plate for each flower 22. Moss grass
10. Resin mold for each flower
11. Latex glue
23. Flower container for decorating e.g. log bucket and etc.
12. Brush no. 0 2 and 4 24. Stick glue and gun
13. Acetone for washing brush 25. Permanent marker

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