{"id":15441,"date":"2018-09-19T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=15441"},"modified":"2018-09-14T13:14:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T20:14:19","slug":"the-squiggle-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/the-squiggle-master\/","title":{"rendered":"The Squiggle Master"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It will be hard to talk about squiggles and not talk about Julie Picarello\u2019s<\/a> mastery of the squiggle in negative space. Or peekaboo space if you prefer.<\/p>\n

Julie\u2019s impeccably controlled polymer mokume is full of squiggles both in the mokume pattern itself and in these wonderful little rivers she creates in her compositions. Perhaps that analogy is part of our attraction to squiggles\u2014some of mother nature\u2019s best squiggles are things we have long held dear, such as life-giving rivers and streams. Julie does such a beautiful job of re-creating this essence of flowing water in her signature approach to the mokume technique. I imagine that is part of the attraction to her work and the popularity of her particular techniques.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t hear a lot from Julie these days. She is not an avid poster to the social media sites although she does have a presence. We were actually wondering what she had been up to lately ourselves which is why we\u2019ve asked her to be the first artist to be profiled in the new The Polymer Studio<\/em> magazine coming in January\u2014and she\u2019s agreed. So we will have an exclusive peek into her world for you to look forward to in January.<\/p>\n

And yes, we are just about ready to get subscription ordering started for the new magazine. We\u2019ve been ironing out some issues in the new website but stay tuned here and be sure to sign up for our newsletter<\/a> to be one of the first to hear about the reveal of our new website.<\/p>\n

You can take a look at some of Julie\u2019s other designs in this technique on her Flickr photostream<\/a> and don\u2019t forget about her book Patterns in Polymer<\/em> which you can purchase here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Julie\u2019s impeccably controlled polymer mokume beads are full of squiggles, capturing the essence of rivers and streams, 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":[74,853,344,312,640,6064,1293],"class_list":["post-15441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-beads","tag-julie-picarello","tag-mokume","tag-negative-space","tag-polymer","tag-squiggles","tag-water"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-413","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15441","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=15441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15451,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15441\/revisions\/15451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}