Non precious materials

Non-precious materials are cheap materials like paper, glass, fabric, copper, aluminium mixed media and recycled materials and these materials are not new in history. Art jewellery adopts natural non-precious. In nowadays non-precious materials are mostly used and it easy to get them in the store or you just recycle. Most of the jewellery that we see in the street is also made from cheap material.
The generation of the 60s and 70s were stridently modern simplicity and truth to materials because their cheap material learnt themself well to a point where they free to express themself by making any kind of jewellery. I like the way all the designs who use non-precious tend to come up with jewellery that pleases everyone eye. Peter Chang use non-precious materials to make his jewellery. In (fig 1) it a bracelet, that is made up of acrylic and polyester. Peter Chang used hints of patterns and curvaceous rhythms derived from sea creatures; I like the way he mixed primary and secondary colours it makes the bracelet look more colourful.

Figure 1 -Peter Chang, bracelet

https://za.pinterest.com/pin/360639882632989198/?autologin=true 

In my contemporary jewellery that is inspired by the beauty of nail art, I will be using non-precious and precious materials. Peter Chang's work relates to my work because his work is colourful, has patterns and form. In my jewellery, I will be using acrylic gel to add colour and patterns. I will be transforming plastic nail shape into the jewellery forms like earrings, rings, bracelet, brooch and pendant.