{"id":15788,"date":"2018-12-31T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=15788"},"modified":"2018-12-24T15:06:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T23:06:16","slug":"in-search-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/in-search-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here you are, on the eve of the new year. What are your resolutions for the upcoming year? Isn\u2019t that the big question tonight? Well, in my humble opinion, the only thing that really matters, art-wise, is that you create and that what you create is something that makes you happy and satisfies your soul. Now, how do you make that happen?<\/p>\n

A big part of keeping yourself creating and doing something that makes you happy is keeping motivated with fresh ideas flowing. That is really hard to do all alone in your head so getting outside help is extremely advantageous. To that end, I want to share with you a few options for keeping yourself motivated this coming year as this week\u2019s theme.<\/p>\n

Of course, keeping subscribed or checked in on this blog as well as other excellent blogs such as Cynthia Tinapples\u2019s “Polymer Clay Daily<\/a>\u201d will be a great help. I would also suggest looking at non-polymer artwork. This can be easily done through other art blogs as they will basically do the searching for you. Some of my favorites are Colossal<\/a>, which looks at all types of art but, it seems to me, they show more craft art than a lot of art blogs but mostly it\u2019s full of amazing crazy work.<\/p>\n

If you focus on jewelry-making, you should really check out the Art Jewelry Forum blog<\/a>.\u00a0I think I first became aware of this blog when led there by a search for work by\u00a0Ford and Forlano<\/a>.\u00a0This post, which you can click through to here<\/a>, featured some gorgeous jewelry by the duo including the necklace you see here. Although they do not commonly feature polymer clay, it will introduce you to a lot of mixed-media that can readily inspire polymer ideas as well as beautifully designed pieces.<\/p>\n

You can also search for blogs by keywords plus the word blog for additional resources of inspiration,\u00a0such as +art +jewelry +blog, or +polymer +clay +blog. Try it out and see what treasures you find!<\/p>\n

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Happy new year! It’s time to get motivated, so click through to get some ideas from 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":[6135,430,300,257,211,4621,640],"class_list":["post-15788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-art-jewelry-forum","tag-blog","tag-bracelet","tag-cynthia-tinapple","tag-ford-and-forlano","tag-motivation","tag-polymer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-46E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788","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=15788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15814,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788\/revisions\/15814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}