{"id":1071,"date":"2012-09-18T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2012-09-18T15:06:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T21:06:54","slug":"rough-around-the-edges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/rough-around-the-edges\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough Around the Edges"},"content":{"rendered":"

We can all be a little rough on ourselves at times, trying to be perfect, or struggling to make our work smooth, seamless, and precise. But sometimes letting go IS the way to go.<\/p>\n

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Anna Anpilogov<\/a>a let loose here plus some with these beaten and battered looking beads. The frames are roughly cut out and the surface of the interior ‘stones’ scratched and dinged. And it’s just lovely. The key to making rough right is consistency and obvious intent to create that effect. This piece definitely has that all here.<\/p>\n

See her blog post here<\/a> in English. There is a link to a tutorial<\/a> from which she got the idea for these beads. The tutorial is in French I believe but is not translatable since the text is all within images. Still, you can get the gist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We can all be a little rough on ourselves at times, trying to be perfect, or struggling to make our work smooth, seamless, and precise. But sometimes letting go IS the way to go. Anna Anpilogova let loose here plus some with these beaten and battered looking beads. The frames are roughly cut out and…<\/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":[308,25,13,74,17,29,12,11,48,16],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-anna-anpilogova","tag-artistic-influence","tag-artistic-inspiration","tag-beads","tag-design","tag-necklace","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-technique","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-hh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","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=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}