{"id":14441,"date":"2017-12-20T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=14441"},"modified":"2018-02-10T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T18:00:59","slug":"aztec-accents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/aztec-accents\/","title":{"rendered":"Aztec Accents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BckDeFUl5Tb\/?taken-by=wiredorchid\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14451\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/aztec-accents\/lvogel-aztec-accents\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LVogel-aztec-accents.jpg?fit=720%2C801&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,801\" 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=\"LVogel aztec accents\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LVogel-aztec-accents.jpg?fit=430%2C478&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-14451\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LVogel-aztec-accents-430x478.jpg?resize=430%2C478\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"478\" align=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LVogel-aztec-accents.jpg?resize=430%2C478&amp;ssl=1 430w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LVogel-aztec-accents.jpg?resize=180%2C200&amp;ssl=1 180w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LVogel-aztec-accents.jpg?resize=350%2C389&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/LVogel-aztec-accents.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a>My forays all over Instagram also got me caught up on the beautifully delicate work of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/WiredOrchidJewelry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lorraine Vogel<\/a>. These last few years, she has really hit her stride, showing off her fine sense of color within a series of signature techniques that focus on surface design with stamped or stenciled texture.<\/p>\n<p>Here she lets the color flow and layer across the surface to create an ancient look using what I think is a version of the raised surface coloration technique which she shared in a tutorial in our Winter 2016 edition of The Polymer Arts. It looks a bit more involved but if you want to try something similar, get the issue on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\">our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her techniques are easy and fun and you can get great results with just a little care. She sells additional tutorials on related techniques\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/WiredOrchidJewelry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in her Etsy\u00a0<\/a>shop, along with her wares. You can also take look at the history of her work by dropping in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wiredorchid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on her Flickr<\/a>\u00a0photostream and, of course, her Instagram page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My forays all over Instagram also got me caught up on the beautifully delicate work of Lorraine Vogel. These last few years, she has really hit her stride, showing off her fine sense of color within a series of signature techniques that focus on surface design with stamped or stenciled texture. Here she lets the&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":[266,17,4522,640,703,5836,5834,5835,79],"class_list":["post-14441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-color","tag-design","tag-lorraine-vogel","tag-polymer","tag-polymer-pendant","tag-raised-surface-coloration-technique","tag-stamped-polymer","tag-stenciled-polymer","tag-texture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-3KV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441","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=14441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}