{"id":3667,"date":"2013-06-20T14:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2013-06-26T15:07:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T21:07:48","slug":"polymer-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/polymer-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Polymer in Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to confess that the movement idea for this week wasn&#8217;t something I came up with on my own. <a href=\"http:\/\/craftartedu.com\/instructors\/index\/view\/id\/42\/\" target=\"_blank\">Denise Graham<\/a>, who works in polymer &#8220;clay paintings&#8221; and has been very sweet to share work beyond what she has contributed for the Wall Art articles you&#8217;ve seen in the present\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/SampleIssues.html\" target=\"_blank\">Summer 2013 issue <\/a>(and will see more of in the upcoming Fall 2013 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Polymer Arts magazine<\/a>), sent me this intriguing piece you see here. The idea of flight and its emulation in the breezy hanging strands that outline flight&#8217;s most iconic creature was what triggered the idea for this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/craftartedu.com\/instructors\/index\/view\/id\/42\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3669\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/polymer-in-flight\/photo-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-2.jpg?fit=500%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1349978745&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.13&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0588235294118&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"photo 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-2.jpg?fit=430%2C574&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3669\" alt=\"photo 2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-2-480x640.jpg?resize=480%2C640\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-2.jpg?resize=480%2C640&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-2.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0floating dove piece is large &#8212; 6&#8242; x 5 1\/2 &#8216;! It&#8217;s rare to see something in polymer that big, but why not? Polymer makes wonderful components from which you can create larger work. And with its light weight, it makes a great material for kinetic sculpture that is dependent upon changes in airflow, like this piece.<\/p>\n<p>Denise has been thinking outside the box in polymer ever since she moved from watercolor to this new and amazing medium. She presently has several classes on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/craftartedu.com\/instructors\/index\/view\/id\/42\/\" target=\"_blank\">CraftArtEdu<\/a> teaching her clay painting techniques. Although these are not classes on kinetic sculpture, they teach you another option for using polymer in a painterly way. From <a href=\"http:\/\/craftartedu.com\/denise-graham-still-life-floral-clay-painting\" target=\"_blank\">still life<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/craftartedu.com\/denise-graham-water-and-waves-in-polymer\" target=\"_blank\">water <\/a>to <a href=\"http:\/\/craftartedu.com\/denise-graham-sky-and-clouds-in-polymer\" target=\"_blank\">clouds &amp; starry skies<\/a>, Denise&#8217;s classes may open up a whole new world for you &#8212; and that can be quite &#8216;moving&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"blog Banner Ad 230x125\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-Banner-Ad-230x125.jpg?resize=230%2C125\" width=\"230\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thewhimsicalbead.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PA Blog2d--2013-03Mar\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/PA-Blog2d-2013-03Mar.jpg?resize=125%2C125\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to confess that the movement idea for this week wasn&#8217;t something I came up with on my own. Denise Graham, who works in polymer &#8220;clay paintings&#8221; and has been very sweet to share work beyond what she has contributed for the Wall Art articles you&#8217;ve seen in the present\u00a0Summer 2013 issue (and will&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":[1133,1132,1131,1130,388,12,11,740],"class_list":["post-3667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-bird","tag-denise-graham","tag-flight","tag-kinetic-movement","tag-movement","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-wall-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-X9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667","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=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}