{"id":14504,"date":"2018-01-02T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=14504"},"modified":"2018-02-10T09:58:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T17:58:29","slug":"exploration-in-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/exploration-in-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploration in the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>First of all …. a very happy New Year and all the best to you this coming year! I am very excited to welcome 2018 and see what it has in store for us all. 2017 was a bit rough for so many of us, personally and globally, within our community and without. Every year has its challenges, of course, but I like to greet the new year with optimism and enthusiasm because it does represent so many new possibilities.<\/p>\n

New possibilities may be about looking forward but it can be helpful to look back in order to create new and exciting futures. I’ve dug up a few interesting techniques from the past in order to, hopefully, spark some new ideas and encourage you to find new ways to use older techniques.<\/p>\n

Let me tie into some of last week’s subjects. If you didn’t see the post about the silkscreen stencils on Friday<\/a>, do check that company out. That would provide you with new designs, pre-made or custom, to try a new approach with. Then try a little something different, using multiple colors and controlled placement. I believe that is what Kleio\u00a0Tsaliki<\/a>\u00a0was doing with these gorgeous sheets she created back in 2015.\u00a0 I am thinking she used stencils and pearlescent paints and, in the top two, taped off sections as she applied colors. Or maybe she is using a stencil sponge to control where the color goes, which would work for the more random placement seen in the bottom sheet.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t matter that we don’t know how she did this as the ideas we are guessing at are quite worthy of a bit of exploration regardless. I have found some really cool, unintended effects when I have just been guessing at how other people have done the work. It just pushed me to think of new ways to approach familiar techniques.<\/p>\n

A quick click on this link to\u00a0her Flickr pages<\/a>\u00a0will show you the variety of sheets she created. And if you are not into guessing how she did it, she also has a tutorial on this stencil technique available in\u00a0her Etsy shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First of all …. a very happy New Year and all the best to you this coming year! I am very excited to welcome 2018 and see what it has in store for us all. 2017 was a bit rough for so many of us, personally and globally, within our community and without. Every year…<\/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":[4,8],"tags":[5848,5853,5274,1522,5850,5849,640,4234,5841],"class_list":["post-14504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","category-technique-tutorials","tag-fabriclay","tag-kleio-tsaliki","tag-multicolor","tag-paint","tag-pearlescent-paint","tag-placement","tag-polymer","tag-polymer-sheets","tag-stencil"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-3LW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504","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=14504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}