Hi everyone, my name is Kat Anderson and I’m so excited about my first tutorial for Creative Paperclay®
I’ve been experimenting making bobble heads and wanted to make something that reminded me of summer and what better than a bouncing sunflower.
Materials:
Creative Paperclay®
Delight™ air dry modeling compound
4 inch x 2 inch paper mache' cone (Amazon)
26 mm doll eye sizer or 1 ½ inch wood ball
1 ¼ x 3/8 coil spring from the hardware store
White Gesso (Liquitex brand)
Sandpaper
Water
Dust mask
Paint brushes
Clay rolling pin
Sculpting tool, knife to cut clay petals
Satin acrylic paints:
Light yellow, dark yellow, blue, green, red, black, light beige, brown, and white
Red chalk or powder blush for cheeks
Strong all purpose glue
Matt Sealer
Make a ball with Creative Paperclay® that is around 2 inches
Take the eye sizer or the wood ball and push it into the clay to make an opening. Take the spring and push it into the center of the clay about ¼ inch deep to make an indentation for the head to sit on when it’s dry. Remove the spring and let the clay ball dry for a day or put it in an oven on low temp. I usually set the oven around 200 degrees.
Roll out a piece of Delight™ that is about ¼ inch thick to make a piece that looks like a bonnet to go over the ball for the sunflower petals to sit on. Find the center of the ball and attach the clay bonnet to the ball with a sculpting tool. I used water as the glue. Let dry.
While the head is drying let’s start on the body. Cover the cone with glue and roll out some Creative Paperclay® to cover it. Smooth the clay on the cone by rolling it on a flat surface.
Add the spring to the top of the cone and put a little
clay around the bottom of the spring to make sure it’s attached to the cone.
You can let it dry a little to make it easier to work with.
Take a couple of pieces of clay and roll them out to look
like snakes.
Attach them to the
body where the shoulders would be, about 1 inch down from the bottom of the
spring. Use water as glue and blend the edges into the body for the arms.
Draw lines to look like the veins of a
leaf.
Draw lines to look like the veins of a
leaf.
Add a couple of sleeves at the shoulders and a little bit of clay for the
neckline of the dress. Add strip of clay around the bottom of the skirt.
Smooth with water. Let it dry for a little while to make it easier to work with.
This part is optional.
You can cut a circle of clay and add it to the bottom of the cone or just smooth the bottom edge with a paintbrush and water so it sits flat on a table.
Let the body completely dry.
You can test if it's dry by tapping
on it with the handle of a brush. If it sounds hollow it’s dry.
Then sand it smooth. Wear a dust mask when you're sanding.
Back to the head.
Cut out little petals with the Delight™ to make 2 layers
of petals on the front and the back of the bonnet. Attach them and blend in the bottom edges of the petals with a sculpting tool. Let completely dry then sand the part that is the face and the back of the head. You don't need to sand the petals.
After everything is dry and sanded paint the body and
head with Gesso and let dry.
Then the fun begins PAINTING!!
Paint the petals of the sunflower with light yellow acrylic
paint and highlight the bottom of the petals with the darker yellow. Paint the
face and the back of the head with light beige paint.
Let dry.
Mark the center of the face lightly with a pencil so you
know where to position the eyes and nose. Take the end of your paintbrush dip
it in the blue paint and make dots on the face for eyes. Make a heart shape for
the mouth.
Make
little check marks with brown paint for the nose and draw a little line through
the center of the heart to put a smile on her face. Put a couple of tiny white
dots in her eyes for the highlights. Add her eyebrows with the brown paint.
Take a soft dry paintbrush and add cheeks with the chalk or powder blush.
Paint the neck with the light beige
then paint the body with the blue. Paint the arms with green and the trim and
sleeves with the light yellow.
Let dry.
After the body is dry make little flowers for her to hold. Take 3 little balls of the Delight™. Press in each ball with the end of a small paintbrush handle to make petals. Attache the 3 petals in the center with a sculpting tool. After they dry put a dot of red paint in the center. Attach them to the body with glue.
Put the head on the body. If the spring doesn’t fit in the indentation on
the inside, take a knife and carefully cut out a little of the clay
around the groove till the spring fits snugly into it.
Put a little glue on the inside of the groove inside the head and attach the
head to the spring. Let Dry.
Spray with a Matt Sealer and you’ve got yourself a sunny bobble
head.
Thank you
for checking out this tutorial.
I
hope you enjoyed it and I’ll see you next time.
Creative Paperclay®
and Delight™ are available online and at retailers listed below.
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6 comments:
This is soo cool, I would have never thought that making a bobble head could be this simple!
Thank you Melandolly! They are so much fun to make and the heads really do bounce.
Any time :D
So creative!!!
Omg she’s so adorable I just love sunflowers anything
I'm so happy to call her my own! She's so sweet! <3
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