{"id":11278,"date":"2015-10-21T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=11278"},"modified":"2015-10-21T06:50:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T12:50:15","slug":"autumn-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/autumn-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Avgust<\/a>Is it just me, or do the dark colors of autumn seem so much more\u00a0dramatic\u00a0than any other season? I’m not knocking the spark\u00a0of those first Spring flowers or the brilliance of a sunny\u00a0mid-summer meadow, but the brightness and purity of those colors are beautiful and cheerful while\u00a0Autumn’s palette speaks of deep emotion and, well, drama. At least to me. Life is not all bright and cheery and I think that is something we actually need. The tempered days of troubled thoughts and\u00a0the rough patches we experience\u00a0are what truly make us appreciate the good\u00a0times. Life is for living and it’s one bumpy ride. But even the bumpy times can be beautiful.<\/p>\n

Similarly, days like those in Autumn, with the foliage\u00a0falling away, plants returning to the ground, and the days getting shorter, have their own wonderful beauty. The idea of beauty even in the process of decay has always interested me, so it’s no wonder\u00a0Klavdija Kurent<\/a>‘s\u00a0liquid crystal stone caught my eye as I scoured for more Autumn palettes. The technique itself is gorgeous with the translucency of the shuffled layers, but also the colors in those reds, rusts, oranges and creams are so\u00a0vibrant when juxtaposed. The play of this almost monochromatic palette is where the drama comes from. The many textures of this piece add to its drama and impact as well.<\/p>\n

This image is\u00a0from a promotion for a class Klavdija had last month in which she taught this liquid stone and a liquid rust technique. Hopefully she’ll teach this again in some fashion that might allow us in on her secrets. In the meantime, you can look at more drama and fun pieces on her Flickr<\/a>\u00a0and her blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Is it just me, or do the dark colors of autumn seem so much more\u00a0dramatic\u00a0than any other season? I’m not knocking the spark\u00a0of those first Spring flowers or the brilliance of a sunny\u00a0mid-summer meadow, but the brightness and purity of those colors are beautiful and cheerful while\u00a0Autumn’s palette speaks of deep emotion and, well, drama.…<\/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":[3148,306,78,402,4491,4489,4490,640,11,48,3816,16],"class_list":["post-11278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-art-with-autumn-colors","tag-autumn","tag-flickr","tag-klavdija-kurent","tag-klavdija-kurent-blog","tag-liquid-rust","tag-liquid-stone","tag-polymer","tag-polymer-clay","tag-technique","tag-the-polymer-arts-blog","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-2VU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11278","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=11278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}