Polymer Clay Wall Art – Flowers

This is my newest adventure, I pushed myself to create something large and more complicated than in the past. I used my Cane Mapping technique with an added twist.

It’s a large piece, 19″ x 27″, framed it’s 20 1/2″ x 28 1/2″. I bake my polymer clay in a regular kitchen oven, but even so I had to construct it in pieces like a giant jigsaw puzzle.

After baking a pieces, I constructed the next piece on a piece of glass and by fitting it to the last piece. I placed a roughly drawn pattern behind the glass, but as you can see by this picture, I didn’t follow it exactly.

I continued this way until all were pieces were baked and then glued them to a back board. Actually this board came with a frame I bought. Here’s a look at each step as it was completed.

After completing and taking a picture of this step, I realized how disjointed some of the yellow flower petals looked. So before I baked it, I made some corrections.

Not completely satisfied, but knowing this was as good as it was going to get, I baked it and moved to the next section. Once again I used my and for size reference.

And once again the finished piece. I certainly learned a lot and look forward to making many more.

Wendy Moore

July 20, 2013 at 10:49 pm

I love this Alice. Almost like an underwater garden like you see in reefs. Magical colour combinations. Looking forward to seeing your next one!

Alice

July 20, 2013 at 11:44 pm

Wendy, you’re so nice to take the time to let me know you like it. I had so much fun with this. A challenge. Thanks so much.

Phyllis Dintenfass

July 21, 2013 at 1:30 am

I loved seeing this piece develop over the past weeks on FB and really loved reading about the construction, since it all was/is a mystery to me. Will this piece go to another home? It’s really lovely and I hope it gets to be seen by lots of people.

July 21, 2013 at 11:22 am

Thank you Phyllis, it’s been a great challenge and just so much fun to do. I’m glad you like it. I’m hanging it on my wall today.

Linda Easton

July 21, 2013 at 3:33 pm

Wonderful work…..can’t wait to see it in person in September.

Sydney

July 21, 2013 at 4:09 pm

Incredible Alice – just out of curiosity, why did you have to bake it in pieces when you have a large oven? Do large pieces tend to crack? Thanks so much for sharing the experience – can’t wait to see it!

July 21, 2013 at 4:52 pm

Thanks Linda, I’m looking forward to Sept too..

July 21, 2013 at 4:58 pm

Sydney, it is way too big for even my oven. But working in 11 x 14 chunks make it easier to handle and besides it was the largest size glass I had that would fit in the oven…use what you have I say..lol
Mainly though, that size is all I wanted to work with at one time. When the clay is baked, you can’t mess is up, while it’s uncured, well you always risk destroying part of it while you work on the rest. Safer this way.

Pushing with polymer | Polymer Clay Daily

July 22, 2013 at 10:31 am

[…] Track her progress (here's the Flickr version) and see how she assembled the piece on her blog. Alice uses a process she calls cane mapping to combine lots of cane slices into a cohesive painting. […]