{"id":1352,"date":"2012-10-20T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T22:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2012-10-17T22:06:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T04:06:05","slug":"hope-for-translucents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/hope-for-translucents\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope for Translucents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping an eye on the experiments people have making with the Pardo translucent clay. At this point, I think it&#8217;s pretty obvious that it is the clearest translucent on the market. It also seems to be the most elusive which is probably because it&#8217;s becoming quite popular. Just look at what can be done with it.<\/p>\n<p>Here we have a Lindly Haunani inspired pinch petal necklace by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/iamcr8ve\" target=\"_blank\">Nora Pero<\/a> of San Diego, California. The petals look to be made from sheets that, judging by the other photos she has on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamcr8ve\/\" target=\"_blank\">her Flickr site<\/a>, are probably 2 cards thicks and yet the dark background comes through with no visible yellowing. How cool is that?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamcr8ve\/6329197217\/in\/photostream\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1358\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/hope-for-translucents\/6329197217_5f8c21f6bc\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/6329197217_5f8c21f6bc.jpg?fit=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,375\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"6329197217_5f8c21f6bc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/6329197217_5f8c21f6bc.jpg?fit=430%2C323&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1358\" title=\"6329197217_5f8c21f6bc\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/6329197217_5f8c21f6bc.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/6329197217_5f8c21f6bc.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/6329197217_5f8c21f6bc.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I was in Atlanta last month, I got to see and handle some pieces made by Ellen Prophater with this clay. So clear with no yellowing, I was amazed. They sold it there but since I was traveling by car in the south, there was no point in packing some up as it&#8217;d likely be baked in my Subaru-style oven. What the heck, I&#8217;d seen it at a local hobby store. I&#8217;ll get it when I get back home.<\/p>\n<p>But alas, there has been no translucent, and very little Pardo to be found all along the Colorado front range. Some intensive research on the internet brought up only two sources &#8212; Amazon, where someone who has realized the value of the rare material was selling it at twice its retail price and our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyclayplay.com\/Cart\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Poly Clay Play<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have, however, written my contact at Viva Decor to get the scoop on the translucent clay supply. I will update you as I get information!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping an eye on the experiments people have making with the Pardo translucent clay. At this point, I think it&#8217;s pretty obvious that it is the clearest translucent on the market. It also seems to be the most elusive which is probably because it&#8217;s becoming quite popular. Just look at what can be&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":[4,7],"tags":[13,157,17,21,373,374,375,12,11,79,16,271,376],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","category-polymer-community-news","tag-artistic-inspiration","tag-creativity","tag-design","tag-flowers","tag-nora-pero","tag-pardo","tag-poly-clay-play","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-texture","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine","tag-translucent-clay","tag-viva-decor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-lO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","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=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}