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Vinyl Art and Vinyl Decor

Vinyl Art and What It Is

Vinyl records were mainly used for listening to music long before the digital era of Mp3 players and downloaded music. Today vinyl discs exist in forms of artwork. These artworks demonstrate that the recycled vinyl records do not need to go to waste.


Russian painter Feliks Kaparchuk uses old vinyls to render his vivid landscape paintings. His unconventional choice of circular canvas creates the illusion of observing nature through a porthole window.

What is vinyl art

Vinyl art refers to creative pieces made from vinyl records. These include intricately cut records that showcase stunning designs that touch an important chord in every music lover’s heart. Instead of sending damaged vinyl to the landfill artist give it new life as vinyl art.

Vinyl can create a design on a temporary surface before transferring this same design to a more permanent surface. These are an excellent example of how you can use vinyl in crafting. It’s just one use, however, and there is a whole world of other projects you can do in addition to this simple one.


Types of vinyl art

Crafting with vinyl typically involves several distinct steps, they take much longer in practice and can include lots of different sub steps.

Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby by Seona Mason


Paintings
It’s a small makeshift canvas and you have limited space the work with. The circular shape also controls the kind of painting you can do. Use paints that can cling to the vinyl material, or use a primer layer to help the paint stick better.

Photo Frames
A carefully cut vinyl record makes a cute picture frame. The size of the cutout and the margin will depend on how big the photo is. And the sections you snip won’t go to waste. You can repurpose the center hole as a coaster and the edge pieces as jewelry. They make great bracelets, earrings, and necklace pendants, but sand their edges smooth to avoid injuries.

Wall Flowers
When you’re making a vinyl bowl, you’ll probably use a smaller record size. But these bowls aren’t meant to store things or serve fruit. They’re designed to be mounted on the wall. To achieve those weirdly shaped petals, you can use a heat gun instead of an oven. The gun gives you more fine control of the contours. You can color your wallflowers with spray paint.

Sculptures
If you’re more of a hands on artist, you could get some real mileage from your vinyl record art. These projects are far more involving because you have to melt the vinyl then mold it into the shape you want before it cools, dries, and solidifies. You can carve abstracts or create something more recognizable. Be careful not to burn your fingers on molten vinyl.

Silhouettes
Even if you don’t get modern art you’ll probably feel drawn to this vinyl record art painting. It’s simple and colorful, with a back record in the middle and colorful silhouettes all around it. The shapes and shadows take the form of various musical instruments. You could easily fit the entire orchestra along those vinyl edges. It’s a pretty splash of color and sound.

Cutout Clock
You’ll still need the central clock mechanism, that’s what makes the clock tell time. As for the numbers, the clock has them cut into the edges of the vinyl. Other clock face options include stencils of famous people, bicycles, animals, or any design you like. You could find the musician’s image and use it as a frame for the clock.



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