Step-by-step tutorial for creating clay Carnations by Priya Nanthakumar. Priya uses air-dry clay to create the flowers. She doesn't specify which air-dry clay she is using but there are many suitable brands. DecoClay is a popular one for flower-crafting. Homemade cold porcelain is also popular.
Here's a few tips when following this tutorial:
Author recommends oil paints to pre-tint the clay but acrylic paints may also be used. Artists quality oils and acrylics will give you stronger reds and dark colors than craft paints. If you want pastel pinks or yellows, craft acrylics could be used instead of the tube paints.
Another option for pre-tinting your air-dry clay would be the paste colorants used by sugarcraft
and cake artisans. Wilton
is a well-known brand, but there are a few others such as AmeriColor
.This Carnation tutorial uses a circle cutter and a leaf cutter. There's a lot of things around the kitchen you could substitute for the circle cutter, such as a soup can. But you can also make your own cutters. Check the "Tools" tab for instructions on how to make your own.
Another tool called for is a leaf veiner. If you don't have one, just go outside and find a large, green leaf to use for embossing leaf veins. I wouldn't worry too much about it being an actual "Carnation" leaf....as long as the leaf has well-defined veins. ;-) If you have a molding compound...make your own re-usable veiner by making a mold of a Carnation leaf!
A knitting needle and/or a (clay) needle tool could substituted for the frilling tool. That sums it up for the tools needed....so there's no excuse now not to make some pretty Carnations! (Well, except maybe getting the time to actually DO it! LOL)
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