{"id":334,"date":"2012-07-04T17:13:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T23:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2012-07-05T15:46:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T21:46:01","slug":"letting-it-all-stand-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/letting-it-all-stand-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting it All Stand Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

C\u00e9line Charuau\u2019s<\/a> work absolutely fascinates me. \u00a0Her forms are obviously inspired by the shapes and patterns in nature but she chooses to exaggerate or focus on one aspect and push it until it no longer resembles anything we are familiar with but does emphasis the beauty of that one characteristic.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>C\u00e9line\u2019s work has been in the magazine as an example of how to creatively copy from nature (you may have seen her beautiful feather inspired necklace in Christi Friesen\u2019s \u201cFilling Your Well of Creativity\u201d article in the Winter 2011<\/a> issue of The Polymer Arts magazine<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Here is another example in this pointy petaled flower where the extensions of the flow stand so far out from the base that they almost seem menacing. Building a piece into the available space rather than letting it just sit calmly back makes the form a forceful and undeniably attention grabbing piece. If the coloring and shapes were softer, this might not feel appropriate but with the slim, pointed petals and fiery tips, the dynamic use of space works wonderfully.<\/p>\n

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C\u00e9line Charuau\u2019s work absolutely fascinates me. \u00a0Her forms are obviously inspired by the shapes and patterns in nature but she chooses to exaggerate or focus on one aspect and push it until it no longer resembles anything we are familiar with but does emphasis the beauty of that one characteristic.   C\u00e9line\u2019s work has been…<\/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":[25,13,113,17,114,12,11,16],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-artistic-influence","tag-artistic-inspiration","tag-celine-charuau","tag-design","tag-focus","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-5o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","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=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}