{"id":3540,"date":"2013-06-06T00:46:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T06:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2013-06-02T17:03:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T23:03:04","slug":"focusing-on-the-floral-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/focusing-on-the-floral-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Focusing on the Floral Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we think floral, we tend to think of colorful arrangements. But a large part of the beauty of flowers and all types of nature&#8217;s decorative plants is the form they take&#8211;the slim stems, the folding leaves, the delicate thinness of a flower petal. Even colorless, they would be beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>These lotus flower interpretations by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sashe.sk\/.Zu.Zu.\" target=\"_blank\">Zuzana Lipt\u00e1kov\u00e1<\/a>\u00a0of the Slovak Republic have such an elegant complexity to them, with a focus almost wholly on \u00a0form. I think holding back on the colors is exactly what was needed here to show off the carefully crafted, folded, and layered petals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sashe.sk\/.Zu.Zu.\/detail\/lotosovy-kvet\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"b-1733087_bee8f71606\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/b-1733087_bee8f71606-480x280.jpg?resize=480%2C280\" width=\"480\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to flowers, going a little wild with the color is a natural inclination, and rightly so; but sometimes, pulling back will allow us to further appreciate the beauty in the other characteristics of Mother Nature&#8217;s masterpieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we think floral, we tend to think of colorful arrangements. But a large part of the beauty of flowers and all types of nature&#8217;s decorative plants is the form they take&#8211;the slim stems, the folding leaves, the delicate thinness of a flower petal. Even colorless, they would be beautiful. These lotus flower interpretations by\u00a0Zuzana&hellip;<\/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":[266,1082,92,273,21,938,1030,12,11,1081],"class_list":["post-3540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-color","tag-colorless","tag-earrings","tag-floral","tag-flowers","tag-form","tag-petals","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-zuzana-liptakova"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-V6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540","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=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}