{"id":15234,"date":"2018-07-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=15234"},"modified":"2018-07-20T13:16:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T20:16:31","slug":"missing-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/missing-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In going back through my polymer picks I saved over the years to consider for the blog, I came across some older work from people who no longer create in polymer. It might seem sad but it is simply that some artists move on from a material to find other materials that express the type of work they want to do in that time period. Although I am obviously a big promoter of polymer as an art material, there should be an adage that goes, \u201cJust because you can<\/em> do it with polymer doesn\u2019t mean you should<\/em> do it with polymer.\u201d Sometimes another material is just a better choice.<\/p>\n

The one polymer artist I personally miss the most is Grant Diffendaffer<\/a>, whose gorgeous vessel you see here. His mica shift and the visual texture he created with it are still, today, some of the most amazing examples of the technique. Well done mica shift will always have a bit of an internal glow, but the colors Grant chose and the way his patterns shift and flow make the work come alive.<\/p>\n

There is more than just an internal glow in Grant\u2019s work. The mica reflects so brightly that it appears that there is a light behind that surface. And although I voraciously took in every page of his book back when I started, I was not able to figure out how he created the variation in visual texture. Not back then at least. I am thinking I need to give it another shot now that I know so much more than I did a decade ago.<\/p>\n

His book, Polymer Clay Beads<\/a><\/em>, is still a treasure of information, however, he no longer works in polymer. He did work with it for a while after his jewelry and decor era, creating props of sorts. He is back working in jewelry now but in 3-D printing resin. His portfolio on his website<\/a> shows all of his work from polymer to 3-D printing. If you\u2019re interested in the progression of his artwork or just want to see what is up to, take a look at his website<\/a> and his Facebook page, Steadcraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grant Diffendaffer’s mica shift polymer vessel glows with an internal light, as seen on The Polymer Arts blog, www.ThePolymerArts.com<\/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":[697,76,949,138,640,79,1208],"class_list":["post-15234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-decor","tag-grant-diffendaffer","tag-light","tag-mica-shift","tag-polymer","tag-texture","tag-vessel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-3XI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15234","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=15234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15248,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15234\/revisions\/15248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}