{"id":11576,"date":"2016-02-29T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=11576"},"modified":"2016-02-29T07:34:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T14:34:05","slug":"glowing-and-flowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/glowing-and-flowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Glowing and Flowing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"patti<\/a>I am packing to make the 16+ hour\u00a0road trip\u00a0return\u00a0to Colorado tomorrow, so I’m rushing about and haven’t really come up with a theme for this week, but we’ll muddle through.\u00a0I’ll start sharing some of the items that didn’t fit into this insanely packed Spring issue by Friday and take that into next week, so you have some exciting stuff to look forward to. We will be getting the Spring issue wrapped up soon\u00a0with print issues leaving the printer’s in the next couple days\u00a0and the digital being released this\u00a0Thursday.\u00a0(Get your subscription or pre-order in today so you get it with everyone else …\u00a0www.thepolymerarts.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I thought I’d share some metal jewelry as an introduction to the idea of mixing metal and polymer. This issue has a ton of mixed media tutorials and articles, including metal, but this is not polymer nor even metal clay. I thought it might be PMC at first, but I believe this is all classic metal work created by\u00a0Patti West-Martino<\/a>\u00a0of Michigan.\u00a0\u00a0I just thought it was a great outside inspiration to share.<\/p>\n

I absolutely love labradorite, and the tendril and twists are all too close to the kind of work I’ve done so much of, so it’s no surprise that I was drawn to it. \u00a0But I can’t imagine that the glow from the stone wouldn’t grab just about anyone, and the\u00a0singular lines and varied\u00a0small bits of texture hold you as your eye follows the flow from one interesting point to another.<\/p>\n

Patti also works in that Fordite<\/a> we talked about week before last, as well as plenty of labradorite. If you want to get more ideas for framing some beautifully glowing focal piece, jump over to her Etsy site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Inspirational Challenge of the Day: <\/strong>Consider the idea of flow … flowing lines, flowing textures, flowing color, etc. Design, create, or fix up a piece with the idea of flow either in the way the elements feel or in how it is composed, moving the viewer’s eye from one point to the next. Don’t try too hard, just keep it at the center of your thoughts as you intuitively create.<\/p>\n

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