{"id":3944,"date":"2013-07-17T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=3944"},"modified":"2013-07-15T21:57:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T03:57:43","slug":"skies-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/skies-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Skies on Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing quite like a stunningly colorful sunset, the way the sky appears to be on fire and how the glow of it colors everything you see. But in art, portraying sunsets is a tricky business. Overdone and often associated with tawdry craft and cheap commercialism, sunsets are rarely given a visual voice anymore in fine art and craft. So to find these earrings by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/chickiegirlcreations\" target=\"_blank\"> Janet Wilson<\/a>\u00a0with the poor mistreated sunset as inspiration was a delightful surprise, not to mention some truly eye-catching work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8823440@N07\/3098456881\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3946\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/skies-on-fire\/3098456881_1bab6c13d9\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/3098456881_1bab6c13d9.jpg?fit=500%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"3098456881_1bab6c13d9\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/3098456881_1bab6c13d9.jpg?fit=430%2C430&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3946\" alt=\"3098456881_1bab6c13d9\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/3098456881_1bab6c13d9-480x480.jpg?resize=480%2C480\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/3098456881_1bab6c13d9.jpg?resize=480%2C480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/3098456881_1bab6c13d9.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/3098456881_1bab6c13d9.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think the draw here is not just the fiery color but the change in texture from the ends that look like they are disintegrating and melting from the heat to the smooth austere red that peaks at the top with spare barren branches etched in them. \u00a0Nothing complex, just calmly compelling, very much like the beauty of a great sunset.<\/p>\n<p>Janet Wilson&#8217;s sculpted, scratched, and antiqued nature inspired work can be found on both her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8823440@N07\/\">Flickr pages<\/a> and in her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/chickiegirlcreations#\">Etsy shop<\/a>.<\/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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing quite like a stunningly colorful sunset, the way the sky appears to be on fire and how the glow of it colors everything you see. But in art, portraying sunsets is a tricky business. Overdone and often associated with tawdry craft and cheap commercialism, sunsets are rarely given a visual voice anymore&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":[1217,266,92,1205,1214,1218,150,12,11,1216,1215,79],"class_list":["post-3944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-branch","tag-color","tag-earrings","tag-fire","tag-flame","tag-heat","tag-janet-wilson","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-sky","tag-sunset","tag-texture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-11C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944","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=3944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}