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Ok, back to looking at the ground for inspiration. I’m finding a lot of fascinating and miniature\u00a0gardens, but this one is in an unusual vessel, as well. The use of a snail-shell very much matches the idea of a garden, so it seems natural for it to be a\u00a0tiny garden’s home but … it\u00a0IS actually a snail-shell. Talk about tiny! I love the little lily pads and the lushness of the greenery. I would love to grab a nap by that little pond.<\/p>\n

This beautiful little creation is the work of Germany’s SpankTB<\/a>.\u00a0Spank is a female artist, but that is all I could divine from her pages. She is a master of the beautifully tiny in polymer as well as working in illustration. She says something about having created other gardens, but this is all I could find. I am in a bit of a rush\u00a0today with much to do still to get the Summer issue off to the printer, so if you\u00a0want to investigate her gallery on Deviant Art<\/a> or the ones on her website<\/a>, or even rummage through her photos on Facebook<\/a>, you are welcome to send me more links and put them in the comments as short cuts for others to enjoy.<\/p>\n

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Inspirational Challenge of the Day:\u00a0<\/strong>Find two things on your work table, in your supply bins or in that box\u00a0of incomplete or failed experiments, things that you would not normally put together, and start thinking about what they have in common. If you find that theme or form or concept that connects them, start thinking about how you could represent that in polymer.\u00a0A snail and a garden pond are connected by being things that might be found at the same place. What can you create that encompasses this new connection you found at your work table?<\/p>\n

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Ok, back to looking at the ground for inspiration. I’m finding a lot of fascinating and miniature\u00a0gardens, but this one is in an unusual vessel, as well. The use of a snail-shell very much matches the idea of a garden, so it seems natural for it to be a\u00a0tiny garden’s home but … it\u00a0IS actually…<\/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":[4649,4938,4852,1324,4827,4939,4849,4699,4847,4942,381,4769,4653,4937,640,12,4698,11,4940,3661,4688,4941,4943,4853,4582,3730,3816,16],"class_list":["post-12274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-art-blog","tag-art-gardens","tag-art-magazine","tag-clay","tag-clay-blog","tag-clay-garden","tag-clay-magazine","tag-craft-blog","tag-craft-magazine","tag-deviant-art","tag-inspiration","tag-inspirational-artist","tag-inspirational-challenge-of-the-day","tag-miniature-gardens","tag-polymer","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-blog","tag-polymer-clay","tag-polymer-garden","tag-polymer-jewelry","tag-polymer-magazine","tag-spanktb","tag-summer-2016-issue","tag-the-art-craft-of-polymer","tag-the-daily-polymer-arts-blog","tag-the-polymer-arts","tag-the-polymer-arts-blog","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-3bY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274","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=12274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}