{"id":4212,"date":"2013-08-19T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=4212"},"modified":"2013-08-19T09:30:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T15:30:34","slug":"the-modest-and-versatile-dot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/the-modest-and-versatile-dot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Modest and Versatile Dot"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I was thinking of doing something simple and essential while I wrap up the release of the Fall issue, and I thought dots fit the ticket nicely. Dots are such a basic element, and so common in surface design; but when used well, they make pieces anything but common. So let’s examine dots!<\/p>\n

Dots–those small, circular, solid-colored surface accents or indentations–are used as focal points, for random surface decoration, to develop perceived line and movement, and, especially with a three-dimensional material like ours, to create intricate and rich textures. \u00a0Here is a sampling of the way dots are used by just one jewelry artist in this display of necklaces by Israel’s\u00a0Elinor Yamin<\/a>,\u00a0who quite favors polka dots, beads as dots, directional lines of dots, and dots as focal points for her primarily floral work.<\/p>\n

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So as we head into our dotty week, think on how you use dots, and we’ll stretch the idea of just how dots can be used to make rich, sophisticated polymer art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week I was thinking of doing something simple and essential while I wrap up the release of the Fall issue, and I thought dots fit the ticket nicely. Dots are such a basic element, and so common in surface design; but when used well, they make pieces anything but common. So let’s examine dots!…<\/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":[1333,1336,1276,1335,12,11,1270,1334,79],"class_list":["post-4212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-dots","tag-elinor-yamin","tag-israel","tag-polka-dots","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-simple","tag-spots","tag-texture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-15W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212","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=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}