{"id":12564,"date":"2016-08-05T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=12564"},"modified":"2016-08-05T08:54:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T14:54:34","slug":"outside-inspiration-rings-and-resin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/outside-inspiration-rings-and-resin\/","title":{"rendered":"Outside Inspiration: Rings and Resin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysecretwood.com\/collections\/our-rings\/products\/green-millettia-laurentii-forest\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12565\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12565\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/outside-inspiration-rings-and-resin\/vk-mastger-snowglobe-ring\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vk-mastger-snowglobe-ring.jpg?fit=576%2C672&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"576,672\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"vk mastger snowglobe ring\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vk-mastger-snowglobe-ring.jpg?fit=430%2C502&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-12565\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vk-mastger-snowglobe-ring-430x502.jpg?resize=430%2C502\" alt=\"vk mastger snowglobe ring\" width=\"430\" height=\"502\" align=\"left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vk-mastger-snowglobe-ring.jpg?resize=430%2C502&amp;ssl=1 430w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vk-mastger-snowglobe-ring.jpg?resize=171%2C200&amp;ssl=1 171w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vk-mastger-snowglobe-ring.jpg?resize=350%2C408&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vk-mastger-snowglobe-ring.jpg?w=576&amp;ssl=1 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are one of those clayers that, like myself, sees something cool in another material and immediately asks yourself, &#8220;How can I create that in polymer?&#8221; then the rings from this group will really get your gears going. This ring is made from wood and resin. But why not polymer and resin?<\/p>\n<p>Why not, indeed. The mysterious landscape and that rising gold cloud within just snares\u00a0the imagination. The group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysecretwood.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">My Secret Wood<\/a>, is a team of artists that create hundreds of these one of kind rings using different woods, varying inclusions and a range of tints in their resin. I imagine these are done with molds and some very refined resin skills to eliminate large\u00a0bubbles but I could see this kind of thing being very do-able with polymer as the ring base. Not that I think one should just up and copy this form. Obviously not.\u00a0\u00a0And besides, polymer acts so differently than wood that the outcome would be a world away from this. But a resin cap would help protect surface effects and fragile forms that otherwise would be risky to have on the surface of a ring.<\/p>\n<p>Do take some time today to wander through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysecretwood.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">their gallery of available rings<\/a>. It is sure to get your imagination going if not tempt you to buy your own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inspirational Challenge of the Day: <\/strong>Design or create an object of your choice\u00a0in a way that\u00a0shows an inner world. That could mean any number of things to you so don&#8217;t try to\u00a0be literal but let the idea roll around in your mind and see what &#8220;inner world&#8221; means to you and see how you can transform that concept into a work of art.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"text-align: center;\">_________________________________________<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"likethisblog\">Like this blog? 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This ring is made from wood and resin. But why not polymer and resin? Why not,&hellip;<\/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":[1716,13,118,157,17,281,381,166,294,1297,1750,5051,922,58,30,640,12,1687,11,3661,1248,822,395,164,48],"class_list":["post-12564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-artist-inspiration","tag-artistic-inspiration","tag-composition","tag-creativity","tag-design","tag-inclusions","tag-inspiration","tag-jewelry","tag-mixed-media","tag-mold","tag-molds","tag-my-secret-wood","tag-natural","tag-nature","tag-organic","tag-polymer","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-arts","tag-polymer-clay","tag-polymer-jewelry","tag-resin","tag-ring","tag-rings","tag-sculpture","tag-technique"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-3gE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564","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=12564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}