Giraffe planter DIY: Paper Clay Tutorial

giraffe planter - homemade paper clay tutorial - before painting

I make this giraffe planter with my model of paper clay utilizing newspaper. That is form of experimental craft undertaking as a result of I have no idea if it’ll prove okay to start with as a result of I’ve by no means been working with newspaper for home made clay earlier than.

Surprisingly, the newspaper fiber could be very robust and make my clay sturdy and on the similar occasions very gentle. I accomplished this giraffe planter in a single sitting with out ready for the underside half or legs to dry to wrap the higher physique with clay.

Steps to make giraffe planter:

how to make giraffe planter with homemade paper clay

Step 1: Put together your paper clay. You may skip this stage if you have already got the clay. If not, why not make your personal paper clay? It is vitally simple with easy materials you have already got. Take a look at my paper clay video tutorial.

Step 2: Get your used plastic container (any measurement) for the planter. Right here I take advantage of vitamin bottle. Reduce it about 3/4 of the bottle and take away the highest half so, you should have clear cylindrical form.

Step 3: Make the giraffe’s legs. Fold A4 paper measurement to 4 and reduce it – make the size of small rectangular piece to about 8cm. Roll the paper with skewer. You might have 4 paper tubes for legs now.

Step 4: Connect these 4 paper tubes to plastic bottle container with packing tapes. Add extra paper to the higher legs. Form it properly and seamlessly with the plastic bottle and wrap it with masking tapes.

Step 5: Make the giraffe lengthy subsequent and head primary form with paper (newspaper/ previous journal/ any wastepaper). Wrap it with masking tapes once more and fix it to the plastic bottle with packing tapes.

I’ve discovered that packing tapes stick on the plastic bottle higher than masking tapes.

Step 6: To verify all components we connect to plastic bottle related strongly, bind all items with kitchen towel and glue. It’s like after we do paper mache sculpture. Apply glue with previous brush on the floor and paste skinny layer of small piece kitchen towel layer by layer – overlapping one another till you may have coated the entire floor.

You probably have 2 ply of kitchen towel, separate them, and reduce it to small items.

Wait till the glue dry earlier than wrapping the entire floor of giraffe planter with paper clay.

Step 7: When the glue dry and all shapes in place, cowl the planter with clay begin with the legs and backside half after which transfer to the physique and higher half – the following and face.

Cease right here and wait till the clay dry.

Step 8: Use sandpaper to make the clay easy after it’s dry. After sanding, the giraffe planter has easy gentle gray colour. And I can see somewhat little bit of high-quality paper pulp texture.

It seems to be lovely. The giraffe planter seems to be like manufactured from cement. However, I like portray. So, after generally taking a look at at, I am unable to cease my palms and I began portray the giraffe 🙂

Hope you want my tutorial.

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