{"id":12282,"date":"2016-05-23T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=12282"},"modified":"2016-05-23T12:04:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T18:04:47","slug":"hanging-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/hanging-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanging Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"succulent<\/a>When the Summer 2016 cover of the magazine came out on Wednesday, I interrupted my week of garden goodies to share it with you, but I hope you will put up with one more garden and a couple other earthy treasures this week.<\/p>\n

Here is another wearable garden for the desert or xeriscape lover. This was created by Ukraine’s\u00a0Darya Tarasenko<\/a>. The wonderful denseness of the texture from the mini clay succulents\u00a0makes the fact that they are recreations of\u00a0real plants rather secondary.\u00a0\u00a0Or more precisely, the unusual textures is what is most attractive, then you get to looking at the variety of plants and the subtle colors changes and find yourself just smiling. Well, at least that is how it was for me. Now, how did she create that dusty, matte surface so characteristic of succulents? Hmm.<\/p>\n

She does these hanging gardens in several variations, creating each one as a custom piece\u00a0when they are\u00a0ordered through\u00a0her Etsy store. She has others with more purple and with different shapes. She lists her primarily sculptural pieces on Etsy<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0posts them to Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Inspirational Challenge of the Day: <\/strong>Create texture from variation.\u00a0Identify something you like to do as part of creating your art\u00a0… certain marks on the clay, certain types of small beads, a favorite cane … and recreate it. Not just a few times but 20 or 30 or more times. Each time you make that mark or roll that bead, change it just a little so it is still similar but unlike any of the ones you made before. With a favorite mark, you can make it deeper, long, wider, use a different tool, etc. A bead could have a slightly different form, the bead holes could go through them in a different direction, the color\/texture\/treatment of its surface could be different, etc. Make these variations, then create a piece including as many of them as you can.<\/p>\n

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