Master class on modeling with salt dough: Basket with flowers
Author: Korobkina Natalya.
Author's website: Testoplasty - crafts from salt dough
Everyone loves flowers! The topic is actually very rich. Many people like to make flowers from salt dough, create flower arrangements, or simply decorate their work with them. And, as experience shows, many would like to have something similar in their collection. Let's create a whole basket of flowers and make sure there's nothing complicated about it.
First, let's prepare the dough. We will make the basket from simple dough (then we will shade it with a coffee solution), and the flowers in it... from colored :-).
Roll out the cake to a thickness of slightly less than one centimeter. Using a ruler, cut out a trapezoid from it. Using the same ruler, we create parallel grooves with rounded edges on the trapezoid. Let's add a vertical braid to the future basket (see figure). We twist the braid and, after cutting the required length, we create the handle and bottom of the basket. To make it look more complete, we’ll add thinner braids on the sides.
By the way, before I forget! Here you can find many more interesting materials on salt dough: Crafts made from salt dough
Now let's move on to the color test. We make leaves from green “droplets”. You can add a pattern in a stack, and small teeth along the edges. The leaves will turn out more natural. For the same purposes, add a little white to the dough so that the leaves have a slightly different shade.
Many people are interested in how to fashion a rose from dough? Nothing could be easier! Let's prepare several balls of different sizes. Let's flatten them into flat cakes, and the smallest one into a small ribbon. We roll the ribbon into something like a funnel. Then we take the smallest cake and, maintaining the “funnel shape,” attach it to the outside. We repeat this operation the required number of times, gradually increasing the size of the petals. In words it turns out a little confusing. Look at the photo, try it yourself, you’ll see – it’s not complicated!
Here's another way. We place the same “petals” on top of each other and cut the resulting “caterpillar” lengthwise with a ruler. And in the same way, starting with the smaller petal, we roll up the funnel.
To be honest, the technology for creating flowers is limited only by your imagination. For variety, I can recommend using a garlic press to make grass out of the dough. We will put it in the basket first so that it acts as a background. Place leaves and flowers on top of it.
To create the second basket, I used a plastic jar. First I cut out an even circle, then I “bite off” a small piece for her. It turned out to be a crescent moon. I used the same jar to squeeze out stripes on the basket. Otherwise, everything is according to the old scheme.
All that remains is, AFTER COMPLETE DRYING, to coat the work with varnish. As a rule, I use acrylic. For greater contrast, we will cover the basket matte, and the flowers – glossy.
In conclusion, I can add that flowers can also be made from unpainted dough. And then paint them by hand. But the best effect, it seems to me, is still obtained from colored dough. It turns out especially beautiful when there are a lot of color shades.
Interesting craft made from plasticine
A whole basket of flowers can be made as a gift to your mother or grandmother. This craft will replace fresh flowers, although they will not be fragrant. The basket will turn out to be small, since the product is made of plasticine. This lesson provides a master class on sculpting such a craft. You will learn how to sculpt flowers and also a basket. If you wish, you can fill the basket not with flowers, but with fruits, for example, some vegetables, mushrooms, nuts. You may need to make an autumn-themed product. The information provided in the master class will help you make other fantastic masterpieces.
Materials for work:
• brown plasticine; • toothpick; • green, blue, yellow plasticine; • cap in the form of a cylinder of any color.
How to make a basket with flowers step by step
1. Most of the work you will need is brown plasticine, since the basket with a handle will be made from it. The basket should be large enough to accommodate the flowers. Prepare brown material to create the picture. There are different flowers, so any block from the set will work, but if you want to make a copy of forget-me-nots, you will need blue plasticine. To make a mass of pale blue color, mix the white mass with the blue one.
2. Take an empty lid, which will become a kind of template for creating a three-dimensional basket. Cover the waste material with brown plasticine. First, make a large cake out of the brown mass, then place a lid in the center of this cake and lift the edges up, press it with your palm in a circle. Also pull out thin sausages to assemble the braid.
3. Wrap several sausages horizontally onto a lid covered with brown plasticine. Move from bottom to top. It is desirable that all sausages be the same in thickness. Fill the side surface without any gaps.
4. Take a thin toothpick and press it against the side of the basket to create vertical indentations. This way you will show off an unusual wickerwork.
5. Make oblong leaves from green plasticine. Prepare small blue balls to create flowers.
6. Press down each ball with your finger, attach a yellow bead to the center and press the resulting blue cake around the circumference with a toothpick to highlight the petals.
7. Attach a few green leaves inside the basket. Distribute the leaves around the circle. Make a few flowers to fill the basket.
8. Attach the flowers with a tubercle on top, adding greenery. Weave an additional handle from brown plasticine.
9. Attach a handle to a basket filled with flowers.
10. An interesting plasticine craft is ready. The result was a wonderful and delicate bouquet.
