How To Make A Ceramic Leaf Bowl

A cabbage plant in my garden motivated me to do the.

How to make a ceramic leaf bowl.

Doing this now will make it easier when it s time to transfer your clay leaf to a bowl. Use your hands and the rolling pin to gently flatten the leaf against the clay. Place your leaf on the glue then mod podge over it again. Using your brush brush some mod podge on the saran wrap about the shape of your first leaf.

As you layer and press the leaves onto each other excess mod podge will squeeze out. Using the rolling pin press the leaf into the clay. You ll be building your leaf bowl on the outside of your real bowl. I demonstrate the first step in forming a ceramic bowl using slab method.

Lay the leaf vein side down on top of the rolled clay. Cover your bowl with a layer of cling film and then paste all over the cling film with a layer of slightly watered down pva glue also known as school glue or white glue. Use small sharp scissors to trim the leaf edge pattern. Use caution so that the leaf does not shift.

Using a small knife trim away excess clay. Use a bowl inside of a balloon for your base this will allow you to make a bigger leaf bowl. I am sure that for centuries people interested in ceramics have thought about pressing leaves into clay. Roll out the clay to approximately inch thickness.

To create your own decorative diy leaf bowl all you will need is 1 balloon your choice of leaves a bowl to hold your balloon in place paint brush or foam brush mod podge matte finish scissors. Pull up the clay and leaf before moving to step 3 and then lay them down again on your work surface. Use different size balloon. If your leaves have a softer colored underside be sure to place the colorful side down facing the bowl.

If you are wanting to customize this diy leaf bowl there are a few things you could do. Air dry clay is very sticky and doesn t come up easily. Use a large leaf with heavy veining. Repeat with various leaves overlapping the leaves as you go.

Find a bowl the right size for your leaves i used a deep round soup bowl for this one and an egg cup for the project you can see at the end of the article. The longest part was waiting for the mod podge to dry.