{"id":1216,"date":"2012-10-04T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2012-10-04T13:09:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T19:09:19","slug":"faux-agate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/faux-agate\/","title":{"rendered":"Faux Agate"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was a bit of a gem hound in the years before I found polymer clay. That was probably one of the prime reasons I was drawn to polymer. I love the tranluscency of semi-precious stones combined with the variety of textures, inclusions and colors. And to then discover a material that can reproduce this in new and infinite ways! Dreams do come true.<\/p>\n

This tutorial for agate<\/a> from Jenny Cox<\/a>, posted over on Polymer Clay Central<\/a>\u00a0is just fantastic – highlighting all those intriguing characteristics of semi-precious stones that draws us to them.<\/p>\n

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This a very simple and effective technique. My only thing is, why make it look like existing agate? I say take it a step further. Skinner blend the outside rings, add brillant foil inclusions or a few dabs of alcohol ink on the core before wrapping. Nature has done such a wonderful job but with the material we have on hand, why not see where we can take it?<\/p>\n

Where might you take it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was a bit of a gem hound in the years before I found polymer clay. That was probably one of the prime reasons I was drawn to polymer. I love the tranluscency of semi-precious stones combined with the variety of textures, inclusions and colors. And to then discover a material that can reproduce this…<\/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":[8,5],"tags":[13,17,346,12,11,345,48,16],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technique-tutorials","category-tips-and-tricks","tag-artistic-inspiration","tag-design","tag-jenny-cox","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-polymer-clay-central","tag-technique","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-jC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","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=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}