Bud

1 Hook a piece of 20 gauge light green wire.   Heat the hook with a cigarette lighter. Insert into a large sausage of white paste. Work into a bud shape with a curved tip.

2 Mark with a six-wire "cage" with every second space narrow.

3 Gently pinch a ridge along the wider sections. Remove the cage and leave to dry.

4 When dry dust the base, tip and along the ridges with a mixture of moss green, primrose and cornflour.

Stamens

1 Cut six lengths of 30 gauge white wire. Hook the end then bend sideways like a golf club.

2 Dip in glue and attach a small cigar piece of yellow paste.

3 When dry brush with glue and dip into yellow polenta with orange and brown added.

4 Dust the stems with the green/primrose mix.

Pistil

5 Cut a length of 24 gauge light green wire. Do not make a hook. Roll a piece of pale spruce green paste down the wire about 13 ". The pistil should be about B the length of the petal. Taper until fine at the base.

6 With tweezers pinch the top into a trefoil shape then make a groove down the centre of each section with a clay cleaning tool.

7 Glaze when dry.

Petals

8 Cut six lengths of 26 gauge white wire. Roll white modelling paste thinly. Cut petals. Insert moistened wire. Ball the edges until fine.

9 Vein with all purpose veiner then mark two cental lines with the dresden tool. Bend the sides in to accentuate the central veining. Curve the tip back.

10 Make 5 more petals the same.

11 Before the petals are dry, dust the base, tip and back of the petals with the green/primrose mix.