{"id":12632,"date":"2016-08-22T11:21:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T17:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=12632"},"modified":"2016-08-22T11:21:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T17:21:33","slug":"beautiful-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/beautiful-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"joyce-fritz3\"<\/a>Ok, so you know what is on my mind this week? Bugs! First something nipped\u00a0on me several nights in a row while I slept then later this past week these brilliant green bugs keep popping up in\u00a0one of the\u00a0bathrooms (turned out to be stink bugs … yuck!), then I was chased down a\u00a0desert trail I regularly run by the biggest and strangest hopping beetle\/mosquito looking thing the other day. Now, I am not a squeamish girl and I actually really like bugs–they are amazing creatures–but I’ve nearly had enough. So to resurrect my love of bugs, let’s do beautiful\u00a0bugs this week. We’ll see what I can find.<\/p>\n

Joyce Fritz<\/a> came to mind\u00a0first, of course. I have been admiring her bugs since nearly day one of my polymer inspired existence. I remember reading an interview about her use of recycled telephone wire for the legs to make appendages as colorful as the\u00a0clay canes most of her bugs are built from. I thought that was so clever. The antennae and other parts are made from wire and beads. She sells almost exclusively through wholesaling which means she makes a LOT of bugs, and yet they all look so fun and inspired. I love that this one has an entire landscape scene on its back, perhaps carrying an image of its ‘native’ environment. That would be a very interesting bug to find while out on a trail.<\/p>\n

While I go looking for more beautiful bugs, enjoy a little gallery showing of Joyce’s work on her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Inspirational Challenge of the Day:\u00a0<\/strong>Create a more appealing version of something you tend to find ugly in nature. Bugs, snakes, fungus, weeds … just come up with something you regular try to avoid and see if you can’t create a beautiful version of it or let it inspire form, color, texture or motifs for a new piece.<\/p>\n

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Ok, so you know what is on my mind this week? Bugs! First something nipped\u00a0on me several nights in a row while I slept then later this past week these brilliant green bugs keep popping up in\u00a0one of the\u00a0bathrooms (turned out to be stink bugs … yuck!), then I was chased down a\u00a0desert trail I…<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-12632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-3hK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12632","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=12632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}