This sunflower was made a month ago, but somehow I forgot about it. Well, I'm making up now, to everyone's delight!
You're smiling involuntarily at the sight of a sunflower, aren't you? I am overwhelmed with happiness when I see only one photo of a sunflower. Especially when I can take my own photos. But the sunflowers have long been harvested, so I tried to make them from recycled materials and a special textile glue.
The process may seem very complicated, but it should not discourage you!
Unfortunately, I didn’t photograph the very first steps, but if I describe it, it will be pretty understandable! Grab a 20x20 cm denim fabric or canvas. If it’s too soft like mine, stick another layer on it, which could be other textiles. Mine is a bit lacy in nature. I glued the entire surface and compressed the two materials, then waited an hour for the glue to set a little. I then grabbed callipers and drew two concentric circles on it. The smaller circle (diameter 8) indicates the middle, the larger (diameter 16) the end of the petals. I drew 16 petals in a circle so that the base of the petals reaches the small circle, the tip to the large circle. Then I cut around the petals, cutting into the material to the small circle. Then I pinched the ends of the petals (the clothespin does a good job of this, which of course has to be removed after a while).
The sunflower is a full-bodied flower, quite thick. To achieve its 3-dimensional shape, I loosely (can be easily removed!) tied it to a jar. It's like covering compote!
Now it looks like an empty flower.
To form the body of the flower, I cut 2 thick discs (8 cm in diameter) out of corrugated cardboard and glued them to the middle.
I tightened the petals a bit with the outer binding thread, which I removed at the end.
It looks like this:
Now I applied some textile glue in the middle:
Filled with seeds:
Another layer of glue:
When it dried, I painted the petals with white acrylic
Then used yellow and green on the other side:
It's almost done now! A little warm shade can come on the petals and some copper in the middle:
The other side is colored with light and dark green and a bit yellow:
Because it contains a lot of water-soluble glue, it dries very slowly. It is not advisable to speed up the drying with a hair dryer, but rather place it on a heater.
Since I didn’t have metal wire for its stem, it just became a bowl. But it can even be a mandala if you hang it on the wall.