{"id":11770,"date":"2016-02-03T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=11770"},"modified":"2016-02-03T08:39:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T15:39:45","slug":"complexity-in-simple-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/complexity-in-simple-shapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Complexity in Simple Shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bettina<\/a>You do not need a wide variety of elements, shapes, textures, or other complexities to create an intriguing piece. As I mention quite a bit, keeping it simple is often the most impressive and eye-catching approach. The trick is in developing or arranging the design in an unusual or energetic fashion.<\/p>\n

With these beautiful brooches by Bettina Welker<\/a>, there is not\u00a0an abundance of variation besides size and that one shift in color at the apex of these little stacks. But the variation in position and size creates a swirl that draws you in. Simple but precise shapes, beautifully crafted and finished is all these brooches need, in addition to that visual energy, to go from fairly simple to fascinatingly sophisticated.<\/p>\n

Bettina, also a graphic designer, creates a beautiful website as well as\u00a0wearable art. Go enjoy her pieces and her presenation on her BeadWorx website<\/a>,\u00a0or if you want a condensed view of her brooches, check out her albums in Ipernity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Inspirational Challenge of the Day:\u00a0<\/strong>Take a simple shape and repeat it. You can give it as much variation as you like, but it must be the same shape. It can change in size, color, texture, imagery on it, treatment, arrangement, or finish. It can be separate shapes stacked upon one another\u00a0or constructed into one object, like a necklace or a sculpture. Or work in two-dimension and treat or form your surface with the shape repeated on it in whatever fashion you would like. What can you get a simple shape to do for you?<\/p>\n

___________________________________________<\/p>\n

Like this blog? Lend your\u00a0support with a\u00a0purchase of The Polymer Arts magazine<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and visit our partners:<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\"\"\u00a0<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

___________________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You do not need a wide variety of elements, shapes, textures, or other complexities to create an intriguing piece. As I mention quite a bit, keeping it simple is often the most impressive and eye-catching approach. The trick is in developing or arranging the design in an unusual or energetic fashion. With these beautiful brooches…<\/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":[4687,324,204,17,381,4653,640,3696,11,2996,4582,3816,16,884,4686],"class_list":["post-11770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-beadworx","tag-bettina-welker","tag-brooch","tag-design","tag-inspiration","tag-inspirational-challenge-of-the-day","tag-polymer","tag-polymer-brooch","tag-polymer-clay","tag-sophisticated","tag-the-daily-polymer-arts-blog","tag-the-polymer-arts-blog","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine","tag-variety","tag-visual-energy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-33Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770","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=11770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}