Sunflower candle holder

Keeping up with the festivities of Diwali, I have made some more clay candle holders which I will be sharing in series of blogposts. In this post, I have made a candle holder which looks like a sunflower. The  material is air dry modeling clay which I have used in many previous projects. Paints are acrylic. 

I rolled a sheet out of the modeling clay and cut petals in it.

Then I arranged the petals on a circular clay piece which acts as a base. The best feature about this clay is you can use water to join or blend pieces.

I wanted the petals to be a little high instead of laying flat, the way real flowers are. So to do that, I rolled some tissue paper and placed it underneath the flowers. So when the clay dries, it holds its position.

Similarly, I went on with another layer of petals with tissue roll underneath.

The final layer of petals....and to seal off, I placed another circular clay piece in the center.

Leave the clay to dry on its own. It takes 1 or 2 days to dry based on how thick the petals are. 

Once dry, you can paint it as you like. I chose red and yellow.