{"id":11516,"date":"2015-12-14T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=11516"},"modified":"2015-12-14T04:58:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T11:58:35","slug":"a-lovely-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/a-lovely-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lovely Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"katya<\/a>I don’t know what happens online but there have been\u00a0long spells lately where nothing really jumps out at\u00a0me as I wander through\u00a0Pinterest, Flicker, Etsy, Google images, and the many blogs and art sites I keep bookmarked to look for amazing and inspiring work. Maybe it\u2019s just me, but then, all of sudden, pieces are jumping out of the screen to charm me into digging further. This week, I want to share a few that have done that recently but for which I haven’t devised any\u00a0themes to work them into and I’m just a bit too excited to wait to share them.<\/p>\n

These pendants made me stop, not just because they are beautifully designed, but I thought certainly that these were one of the many pieces found on Pinterest that had been mistakenly marked as polymer. Looking into the artist further, I found that\u00a0Katya\u00a0Bo<\/a>\u00a0does, in fact, make these out of polymer. Only the findings they hang from and the stones embedded in them are not. I’ve done my share of raised thin lines in polymer and they are not at all easy to keep neat and even. It takes a lot of patience and a steady hand. Katya must have those in spades because, according to process photos I found, these are not stamped or cast as they might first appear to be.<\/p>\n

Her art deco look sometimes crosses into renaissance and other times takes a whiplash swing into space age styles, but there is always that delicate design reminiscent of enamel using faux granite clay for the base. Her pieces are\u00a0gorgeously\u00a0conceived, beautifully detailed, and quietly balanced in design; a combination that seems fairly rare in art jewelry these days.<\/p>\n

I spent way more time flipping through her\u00a0Flickr pages<\/a> than I had when I first saw her work, then I dug deeper and found her LiveMaster\u00a0shop<\/a>\u00a0as well as\u00a0her VK.com ‘workroom’<\/a> which has the\u00a0process photos that reveal\u00a0that, no, those lines are not wires or formed through a more precision method, but are all formed polymer. What a lovely surprise.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know what happens online but there have been\u00a0long spells lately where nothing really jumps out at\u00a0me as I wander through\u00a0Pinterest, Flicker, Etsy, Google images, and the many blogs and art sites I keep bookmarked to look for amazing and inspiring work. Maybe it\u2019s just me, but then, all of sudden, pieces are jumping…<\/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":[2133,284,4590,248,640,12,11,3661,3703,4582,3730,16],"class_list":["post-11516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-art-deco","tag-art-jewelry","tag-katya-bo","tag-pendants","tag-polymer","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-polymer-jewelry","tag-polymer-necklace","tag-the-daily-polymer-arts-blog","tag-the-polymer-arts","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-2ZK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11516","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=11516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}