{"id":15481,"date":"2018-10-03T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=15481"},"modified":"2018-09-29T21:17:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T04:17:46","slug":"beautifully-strung-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/beautifully-strung-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautifully Strung Along"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" <\/a>There has been a wonderful variety of wall art popping up lately, using a number of interesting techniques, many involving inventive mosaic applications and a kind of polymer marquetry. Although they all stand out for one reason or another, I don’t think they jump out at you the way the unique look of Joe Barbaccia’s work does.<\/p>\n

Joe developed an illustrative technique based on using tapered strings of polymer clay. He wrote a wonderful article in the Winter 2014 issue of The Polymer Arts<\/a>\u00a0about his technique including step-by-step details on how he creates his pieces. It takes planning and patience but the result is a gorgeous, vibrant texture that flows and moves throughout the change in value and form of the images.<\/p>\n

He has quite a number of really stunning new pieces, many showcasing newer polymer applications for him including the marquetry-like background behind this beautifully composed fox. The large swatches of color really make the texture and movement of the fox stand out.\u00a0Joe also has a wonderful eye for the juxtaposition of color, creating high contrast as well as subtle gradations in such a way as to make the work come alive with a sense of light and form that his limited palette and choice of application might make difficult but for his well-trained eye.<\/p>\n

Joe has been stretching his techniques as well as his market in what looks to be a very successful series of endeavors. Just take a look at his website<\/a>\u00a0gallery to to see what he has been up to.<\/p>\n

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Joe Barbaccia’s gorgeous polymer wall art highlights a fox on a marquetry-like background, 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":[266,268,6075,1496,6072,6073,388,640,6074,79,740],"class_list":["post-15481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-color","tag-contrast","tag-gradation","tag-illustration","tag-joe-barbaccia","tag-marquetry","tag-movement","tag-polymer","tag-taper","tag-texture","tag-wall-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-41H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481","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=15481"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15509,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481\/revisions\/15509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}