{"id":10204,"date":"2015-04-04T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=10204"},"modified":"2015-04-03T07:26:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T13:26:14","slug":"working-in-a-wisteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/working-in-a-wisteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Working in a Wisteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fkopilka.rv.ua%2F%3Fp%3D11058&amp;edit-text=&amp;act=url\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10205\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/working-in-a-wisteria\/starkov-wisteria\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Starkov-wisteria.jpg?fit=342%2C418&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"342,418\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Starkov wisteria\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Starkov-wisteria.jpg?fit=342%2C418&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10205\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Starkov-wisteria.jpg?resize=380%2C464\" alt=\"Starkov wisteria\" width=\"380\" height=\"464\" align=\"left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Starkov-wisteria.jpg?w=342&amp;ssl=1 342w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Starkov-wisteria.jpg?resize=123%2C150&amp;ssl=1 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a>Nature has such a wide variety of flower forms, and not just the nested petals we are so familiar with such as\u00a0roses, peonies, daisies and the like. The forms, not to mention the colors of course, are incredible. Search &#8220;Unusual Flowers&#8221; on Pinterest or Google images and you will see some of the craziest shapes and textures in what are considered flowers. Some are stunning while others are kind of scary, and others still are just plain weird. But see if you find any that get your fingers itching to recreate them in polymer or have you scrambling through your clay to see if you can recreate the color combinations.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, how about practicing some unusual flower shapes by creating wisteria flowers? These are a little oddly shaped for flowers, but their purple and pink colors are just so lovely, especially in the way they drip off\u00a0the trees in delicate falls. Catherine Starkov shares her method for creating a fall of wisteria for a set of earrings in <a href=\"http:\/\/kopilka.rv.ua\/?p=11058\" target=\"_blank\">this easy tutorial<\/a>\u00a0(click <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fkopilka.rv.ua%2F%3Fp%3D11058&amp;edit-text=&amp;act=url\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for the English translation). Have fun with this or whatever you find yourself creating or enjoying this weekend!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you like this blog, support The Polymer Arts projects with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/Subscribe.html\" target=\"_blank\">a subscription or an issue of The Polymer Arts magazine<\/a>, as well as by supporting our advertising partners.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neverknead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10177\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/10166\/never-knead-125x125-april2015\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Never-Knead-125x125-april2015.jpg?fit=125%2C125&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"125,125\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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The forms, not to mention the colors of course, are incredible. Search &#8220;Unusual Flowers&#8221; on Pinterest or Google images and you will see some of the craziest shapes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25,13,4070,266,157,4065,92,21,3160,3164,922,58,3140,3561,2832,11,4073,298,4071,4072],"class_list":["post-10204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-artistic-influence","tag-artistic-inspiration","tag-catherine-starkov","tag-color","tag-creativity","tag-designing-with-flowers","tag-earrings","tag-flowers","tag-flowers-in-design","tag-flowers-in-polymer","tag-natural","tag-nature","tag-nature-as-inspiration","tag-nature-colors-in-art","tag-nature-inspired-designs","tag-polymer-clay","tag-polymer-clay-wisteria-tutorial","tag-tutorial","tag-using-flowers-as-inspiration","tag-wisteria-tutorial"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-2EA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}