I am in the midst of creating a large piece of 3-D artwork for my living room wall.  I want to balance the large French door art in my dining room and both rooms flow together as one large great room.  Does anyone out there incorporate large art pieces for their walls?   What is the most unusual piece of wall art that you have created?   I'm hoping someone can help kickstart my creativity.  Thanks.

 Judy

 Judy,  I've never created anything like that, but I'm fascinated by it.  What are you using as materials for the art you're creating?  I'd love to see it!

 

Judy, it sounds ambitious! I bet you will come up with something.  The largest piece I've done is in my living room; I took my grandfathers art portfolio (a large, red, wooden one with a threadbare cotton spine) and opened it up flat and mounted it on the wall as a backdrop for a smaller focal piece on top of it. Overall the work is about 4 ft high and 2 feet wide.  The photo in the center is my grandfather and his brothers!

That is a great piece, Nici.  And two by 4 feet is great.  I have seen some similar picture art projects, but not nearly as impressive as yours.  And incorporating your grandfather's portfolio is the most wonderful touch.  Using those french curves was a stroke of genius.  I should have added that element to my french door.  I'll bet you get compliments all the time.  Have you made any other pieces incorporating unusual objects for walls? I'll see if I can get a photo of my french door art and post that.  The only problem would be the angle, since the piece is the size of a french door.  Thanks for your input.  I'm open for more.

Judy

Well, Zura, I'm not sure what I will be using.  Here are some ideas I've been tossing around; woven fabric & metal art piece incorporating vintage keys, a stained glass, mosaic & metal arrangement, a mixed media metal, fabric, wood, paper art collage exploring texture & color, a photo collage using a closeup of unusual flowers (digitally enhanced), creating a village from fabric, metal, paper, wood and glass on a vintage sign or a metal gate.  Anyway, those are some that I am thinking about.  I was really hoping to hear what others had done before I picked one.  Maybe I should just ask everyone about any wall project they have created...I could always enlarge the piece.  Do you have any ideas using unusual material or unusual themes?  I would appreciate any and all comments.  Thank you.

Judy

Hi ~ I am the new kid on the block

I have done 8x6 foot panels .. I have used light pine ... and foam core board

you can join the foam core after it is *art* with different methods... tie it  Glue it etc.

I think suspending several pieces from a wall that have been joined together by those clip rings

and hung would be rather interesting~

Have fun~

Star

 Welcome, Star -- I am glad to see you joining in and posting on the Forums that interest you!   It's always good to have new kids on the block!!

I don't know if their unusual, but I like to create Motherhood Masks.  Once a year, since my daughters were born, I create either a plaster or papier-mache mask in the shape of my own face. I then go on to symbolically summarize the year's events and emotions.

Creative Wishes!

Krystin - the motherhood masks sound so cool!  Can you post some of them? 
 

I've done some large murals, or wall treatments, directly on walls -- don't know if that counts! 

Here are two pics from my old house, in New York.

A large mural I painted in the Dining Room:

 

And in my old kitchen, the walls were decoupaged with menus, and squares of alternating red and white cardstock were decoupaged along the top, to make the border.
 

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I think the largest piece I've ever done that hasn't been directly on a wall is paintings on 2 x 3 foot canvases.  

Oh, I wish I could

 

 a) paint that well

b) be brave enough to do that on walls !

 The way I figure...it's just paint, and you can always paint over it if you don't like it!

In my last home, I did this really complicated geometric mural in really BRIGHT colors in a tiny powder room.  Well, it turned out that it was just TOO bold and crazy a design for that small space.  Whenever me or Tony went in there, we just got a headache!  So I knew I needed to paint over it, which I did, eventually (a pale, buttery yellow, with some tiny little daisies painted free-hand)

So all that to say - I spent days working on that geometric thing, and ended up not liking it at all, so I just re-painted it...no problem!