{"id":15155,"date":"2018-06-25T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=15155"},"modified":"2018-06-17T14:13:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T21:13:09","slug":"inspiration-aspiration-and-jon-stuart-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/inspiration-aspiration-and-jon-stuart-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration, Aspiration, and Jon Stuart Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Guest Blog Post by Teresa Pandora Salgado<\/em><\/p>\n

Van Gogh admitted to the world, \u201cI am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.\u201d\u00a0 Me too, Vincent.<\/p>\n

One of the most infuriatingly fabulous things I cannot do is make cane like Jon Stuart Anderson.\u00a0 Jon creates canes in a cunning palette that leans in close and whispers, \u201cGo ahead…take your time…look at me.\u201d And I surely do. And the world does too.<\/p>\n

I love the way Jon cruises nimbly past the pedestrian cane crossing. He jaywalks that trodden path without ever touching the ground. Obvious contrast? He doesn’t need it, no matter how much the cane is reduced.\u00a0 Nor does he require new colors. Jon keeps it fresh with precision, composition, and balance. Neat trick.<\/p>\n

Jon Anderson is known for his millefiori animals: elephants, turtles, bulls, and birds. You\u2019ll notice the creatures have a flesh and blood sense about them, a beating heart beneath their rich robes.\u00a0 So you look and you look and then, just when you think you know him, Jon takes you to another fork in the road. To the left, skulls, vessels, lights. And to the right, guitars. Ohhh, the guitars.<\/p>\n

So, go ahead. Look. Be inspired. Aspire.<\/p>\n

See Jon’s work at his website here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Teresa Pandora Salgado is a polymer clay artist, designer & instructor from Los Angeles, California. She has made 87 YouTube tutorials which have garnered over 2 million hits from viewers in 151 countries. In addition to teaching live workshops on millefiori complex caning across the U.S., Teresa helms the online store, Tiny Pandora Crafting Boutique<\/a>, which featuresMilll her specialized tools and kits.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jon Stuart Anderson’s magnificent guitar with polymer–a playable work of art, as seen on The Polymer Arts blog, www.ThePolymerArts.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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":[885,19,118,6001,4854,238,640,6000],"class_list":["post-15155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-balance","tag-caning","tag-composition","tag-guitar","tag-jon-stuart-anderson","tag-millefiori","tag-polymer","tag-teresa-pandora-salgado"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-3Wr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15155","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}