Moving to the Wall

I know I just featured  Pavla Cepelikova two months ago but that was for a brooch and I couldn’t help but share this fabulous wall piece. Wall pieces created with polymer seem to be a growing trend. And why not? We love our jewelry but if you really want to spend some time with a technique without worrying about construction and wearability, wall art is definitely something to try out.

Wall art may seem a bit of a daunting project, especially after working small as we commonly do with polymer jewelry, but really, wall art is just doing more of what you already do. The real difference is that your compositional space is bigger and the shape of the outside border is not going to be as important in many cases. You can just pick a size of space to cover in the shape of a square, rectangle, circle, or oval and start laying out your pieces. You may need to consider your substrate but there is a large array of options. You can use just one sheet of polymer clay itself for something like what Pavla has done. If there is more dimension and concern about how to attach it, you’d want something more solid like a wood or melamine board and some serious glue.

We actually did a whole series on creating wall art, including choosing substrates, in 2013 in the spring, summer, and fall issues of The Polymer Arts. So if wall art is piquing your curiosity, pull out those issues or order them on our website in digital or print.

And if you didn’t get a chance to look at Pavla’s art when we featured her work early in the summer, jump over to her Flickr photostream, her Etsy shop, or her Instagram page.