{"id":13512,"date":"2017-05-23T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=13512"},"modified":"2017-05-23T07:01:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T13:01:59","slug":"words-going-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/words-going-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Words Going Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/orsons\/33304428450\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13513\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/words-going-round\/nikolina-otrzantubes\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nikolina-OtrzanTubes.jpg?fit=720%2C529&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,529\" 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=\"Nikolina OtrzanTubes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nikolina-OtrzanTubes.jpg?fit=430%2C316&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13513 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nikolina-OtrzanTubes-430x316.jpg?resize=430%2C316\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"316\" align=\"left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nikolina-OtrzanTubes.jpg?resize=430%2C316&amp;ssl=1 430w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nikolina-OtrzanTubes.jpg?resize=200%2C147&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nikolina-OtrzanTubes.jpg?resize=350%2C257&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nikolina-OtrzanTubes.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a>Okay, let&#8217;s get serious this week. First, a bit of business for readers anxiously awaiting the new issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\">The Polymer Arts.<\/a> The richly packed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\">Color themed Summer edition<\/a>\u00a0has had its\u00a0release date confirmed! Look for digital copies to land in your mailbox on <strong>May 30th<\/strong> with print editions all being on the way out from the printer by that day as well.<\/p>\n<p>While we wait for that exciting issue to make its way to us, I thought we&#8217;d turn our attention to a few of\u00a0our more prolific artists whose work is jamming up my lists and Pinterest boards, waiting to be featured.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/people\/otrzannikolina\">Nikolina Otrzan<\/a>\u00a0has been doing some remarkably sophisticated work with very simple shapes and surface treatments lately. Like these tubes. Tubes with dots. And on the rustic side. Simple but eye-catching in solid, matte colors, these are all about &#8217;round&#8217;, with round tubes and round dots and nothing else to distract on the earrings.<\/p>\n<p>On the necklace, there is a distraction in the form of words. Words will always be distracting. Our eyes go straight to them to try and glean their meaning. They are a focal point without having to sit on one point. I love that these are on a round surface so that there is no beginning or end to the imprinted text. There is also no one word or meaning that can be gleaned at a glance so the words are not calling out some obvious message. The necklace also, still stays in the &#8217;round&#8217; theme but there is a more varied energy in the texture of the text, so that it has a more intricate and energized feel to it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/NikolinaOtrzan\">Nikolina&#8217;s shop on Etsy<\/a> is full of inexpensive yet in-depth tutorials on her piece and techniques. If you are looking for something different to play around with this coming week, her tutorials would be a great place to start. For more visual inspiration, take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/orsons\/\">her work on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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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First, a bit of business for readers anxiously awaiting the new issue of The Polymer Arts. The richly packed Color themed Summer edition\u00a0has had its\u00a0release date confirmed! Look for digital copies to land in your mailbox on May 30th with print editions all being on the way out from&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":[1716,25,13,266,118,157,17,1333,166,5322,5321,29,38,12,1687,11,3661,3007,1270,5309,48,79,4582,3730,3816,16,830],"class_list":["post-13512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-artist-inspiration","tag-artistic-influence","tag-artistic-inspiration","tag-color","tag-composition","tag-creativity","tag-design","tag-dots","tag-jewelry","tag-matte","tag-may-30th","tag-necklace","tag-nikolina-otrzan","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-arts","tag-polymer-clay","tag-polymer-jewelry","tag-rustic","tag-simple","tag-summer-2017","tag-technique","tag-texture","tag-the-daily-polymer-arts-blog","tag-the-polymer-arts","tag-the-polymer-arts-blog","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine","tag-tubes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-3vW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13512","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=13512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}