{"id":15330,"date":"2018-08-20T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=15330"},"modified":"2018-08-17T14:09:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T21:09:51","slug":"piecing-it-all-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/piecing-it-all-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Piecing It All Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Monday to you all. Business first\u2026 preorders for the fall issue of The Polymer Arts<\/em> is available online now. We don\u2019t have a precise publication date but looks like mid-September. I’ll let you know here on the blog, in our newsletter, and on the website when we know. Again, thank you for your patience with me while I work on healing my overworked joints.<\/p>\n

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Okay, one more piece of wall art, this time by the inventive Angela Barenholtz. I know it seems like we\u2019ve been talking about wall art for a couple weeks but this will probably be the last for a bit. I picked this one for a couple reasons having little to do with wall art.<\/p>\n

For one, it\u2019s a really fun piece with its variety in color, visual texture, and even the long shapes that make up this \u201cpolymer quilt.\u201d Creating with a large variety of primary elements makes for energy-infused and eye-catching work. But, the trick is that everything still needs to work together and have some kind of relationship. In this case, the relationship is in the consistency of the type of pieces inserted into this quilt\u2014long and evenly cut strips of visual texture arranged in a square composition. With this much consistency, you can go nuts with the variety of color, texture, and pattern.<\/p>\n

Each one of these could actually sit on its own\u2014like it could be a pendant or brooch if small enough, or even a pair of earrings. Giving yourself a canvas of a certain size and shape releases you from having to be overly concerned about the bounds of individual elements and construction of the work, particularly if you\u2019re creating jewelry, and you get to play with what you place on that canvas. I imagine a lot of you might find that attractive, being we are so in love with our surface treatments, canes, and textures. How many times have you fallen in love with just the sheet of clay you were working on before it\u00a0became anything? Creating a simple surface to work with can allow you to present those fantastic results in a fun and easy manner.<\/p>\n

Angela is all about surface design and variety. You can see that by looking at her Flickr photostream<\/a>. She also generously shares her techniques in her published tutorials which you can find on Etsy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Eye-catching, energetic polymer “quilt” by Angela Barenholtz, as seen on the 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":[1],"tags":[4557,266,118,1667,640,2266,1494,1343,724,740],"class_list":["post-15330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-angela-barenholtz","tag-color","tag-composition","tag-pattern","tag-polymer","tag-polymer-quilt","tag-relationship","tag-size","tag-visual-texture","tag-wall-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-3Zg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15330","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=15330"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15347,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15330\/revisions\/15347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}