{"id":13638,"date":"2017-07-10T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=13638"},"modified":"2017-07-07T15:24:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T22:24:02","slug":"variation-on-triangles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/variation-on-triangles\/","title":{"rendered":"Variation on Triangles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As with most weeks, my themes present themselves from the collection of images I set aside just for this blog. I collect them without a specific idea in mind, just grabbing things that I feel have something we can learn from. Right now, I have a lot of almost-triangle pieces. Straight triangles are the shapes most representative of strength. It is the strongest basic structural shape in nature and in man-made construction since the three sides support each other in an immovable way. But the straight sides are also severe in their simplicity,\u00a0so in craft art, we see a lot of softening of the basic triangle. We’ll explore the way it is used in craft this week.<\/p>\n

This first piece makes use of the various ways the surface of a soft triangle can be treated. The blogger and artisan, Laura Orihuela<\/a> of Spain’s SuperCrafty<\/a> blog created this last year. Using African influences for the cane pattern you see here, she applied it with her own design ideas and touches so you end up with a contemporary piece where the influence is subtle and refreshing.<\/p>\n

And lucky us, she filmed the creation of these five beads so you can see her process. Find the video on her Super Crafty site <\/a>as well as on her YouTube channel<\/a> where you can find a slew of video tutorials on polymer and other materials.<\/p>\n

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