{"id":15256,"date":"2018-08-01T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=15256"},"modified":"2018-07-27T14:10:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T21:10:54","slug":"joes-little-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/joes-little-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe&#8217;s Little World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joefig.com\/blank-2?lightbox=dataItem-ip1g8rh81\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15257\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/joes-little-world\/joefig-rmcginness-studio\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/joeFig-RMcGinness-studio.jpg?fit=849%2C702&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"849,702\" 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=\"joeFig RMcGinness studio\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/joeFig-RMcGinness-studio.jpg?fit=430%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15257 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/joeFig-RMcGinness-studio.jpg?resize=430%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"356\" align=\"left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/joeFig-RMcGinness-studio.jpg?resize=430%2C356&amp;ssl=1 430w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/joeFig-RMcGinness-studio.jpg?resize=200%2C165&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/joeFig-RMcGinness-studio.jpg?resize=350%2C289&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/joeFig-RMcGinness-studio.jpg?w=849&amp;ssl=1 849w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a>Here is another unusual and fantastic use of polymer that Susan Lomuto, the blogger behind the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyartmuse.com\/\">Daily Art Muse blog,<\/a>\u00a0dug up back in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about mixing media \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joefig.com\">Joe Fig&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0very detailed miniature studios are created from polymer clay and myriad\u00a0other materials and portray the work of a variety of artists. Not only do these works show the versatility of polymer but they show off the artwork of painters, printers and other artists using this medium that we love so much.<\/p>\n<p>There is not much more to say, since his work says so much already, so I&#8217;m going to leave you to jump over to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyartmuse.com\/2014\/01\/04\/joe-figs-table-sculptures-polymer-clay-insight-into-the-creative-process\/\"> blog post for this<\/a> or to go see what Joe is up to these days by going <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joefig.com\">to his website<\/a>. You might also be interested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Joe-Fig\/e\/B002890HLI\/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1\">in his books<\/a>, where he interviews artists\u00a0about their studio and how they work as artists. The 2009 book,\u00a0 <em>Inside\u00a0the Painters Studio<\/em>, includes all these dioramas he made. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Fig creates these detailed miniature studios from polymer and myriad other materials, 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":[408,6031,1490,640,164,125,2706],"class_list":["post-15256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-diorama","tag-joe-fig","tag-miniature","tag-polymer","tag-sculpture","tag-studio","tag-susan-lomuto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-3Y4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256","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=15256"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15273,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256\/revisions\/15273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}