{"id":13079,"date":"2017-01-19T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=13079"},"modified":"2017-01-19T08:07:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T15:07:51","slug":"journals-polymer-painted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/journals-polymer-painted\/","title":{"rendered":"Journals: Polymer Painted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/au\/listing\/252898002\/polymer-clay-cover-notebook-journalhttp:\/\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13080\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13080\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/journals-polymer-painted\/monika-autumn-journal\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/monika-autumn-journal.jpg?fit=808%2C1064&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"808,1064\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 1000D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1445168945&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;31&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"monika autumn journal\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/monika-autumn-journal.jpg?fit=430%2C566&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-13080\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/monika-autumn-journal-430x566.jpg?resize=430%2C566\" alt=\"monika autumn journal\" width=\"430\" height=\"566\" align=\"left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/monika-autumn-journal.jpg?resize=430%2C566&amp;ssl=1 430w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/monika-autumn-journal.jpg?resize=152%2C200&amp;ssl=1 152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/monika-autumn-journal.jpg?resize=342%2C450&amp;ssl=1 342w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/monika-autumn-journal.jpg?w=808&amp;ssl=1 808w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a>Not only is today&#8217;s journal cover an inspiration for what you can do with your own decorative journal cover, it&#8217;s a beautiful example of &#8216;painting&#8217; with polymer.<\/p>\n<p>\nEngland&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/artisticvariations.blogspot.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Monika Duchowicz <\/a>actually does do a bit of acrylic painting on this along with the polymer applications but it doesn&#8217;t come across as painted. I would guess most of the painting is in the moss on the stone and in the water which is beautifully rendered and in a way that polymer would not be able to emulate in such a seamless fashion. With a successful background in painting, it&#8217;s no wonder that the water and its complex reflections look so real.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Journals are a primary form for Monika, especially these painterly ones. You can view more of her journals as well as wearable art in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/ArtisticVariations84\" target=\"_blank\">her Etsy shop<\/a> and on <a href=\"http:\/\/artisticvariations.blogspot.co.uk\/p\/modelina.html\" target=\"_blank\">her website<\/a>\u00a0which is in Polish and English although some pages are just one or the other. You can always drop the URL of a page or parts of text into <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Translate<\/a> if you come upon text that needs translating. .<\/p>\n<p><\/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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England&#8217;s\u00a0Monika Duchowicz actually does do a bit of acrylic painting on this along with the polymer applications but it doesn&#8217;t come across as painted. I would guess most&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":[1716,25,13,5219,266,118,157,17,1431,5218,3473,5217,58,1119,640,12,1687,4698,11,164,48,4582,3730,3816,16],"class_list":["post-13079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-artist-inspiration","tag-artistic-influence","tag-artistic-inspiration","tag-book-cover","tag-color","tag-composition","tag-creativity","tag-design","tag-forest","tag-journal","tag-journal-cover","tag-monika-duchowicz","tag-nature","tag-painting","tag-polymer","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-arts","tag-polymer-blog","tag-polymer-clay","tag-sculpture","tag-technique","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-3oX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079","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=13079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}