This is my first and second steel sculpture. I cut the petals out of sheet steel and grinded them to a shine. Then bent the sheets and welded them together.

Alt angle 1
Alt angle 2

You can see my prototype is smaller and much more jagged as I was not used to the plasma cutter.

Pentium box cooler fan, reversed DC motor (inside-out), two PCI printed circuit boards, microphone gooseneck, wire, white and yellow acrylic paint.

Work In Progress (JPEG 700x970 250KB)

Details (JPEG 684x900 200KB)

Made of roof flashing and stained glass paint (plus wire for the stem). I got the idea here and find it quite wonderful.

I was inspired by a flower in my garden. Can you guess which one?

Monarda

See full lenght flower here.

Materials: paper, glue and adhesive putty.

Some flowers just need water and sunshine to grow; this one took white cotton fabric, sculpey, acrylic paint, beads, eggshell pieces and some wire.
Closer look on a few details .

I can not wait to see all the beautiful flowers!

Mine was made from sculpey - nothing else. Then glazed with sculpey satin finish.

This flower is about 12" in diameter and is made of scrapbooking paper.

This was a lot of fun! Good luck everyone.

This was much harder than I expected.

see large alternate views here

I couldn't decide which view to use and decided to go for the artsy fartsy one. Close-up here

Here is my source.