{"id":158,"date":"2017-02-24T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.alonestarjewelry.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2017-02-24T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T15:48:00","slug":"on-the-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"On the Bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WRRDXolWsIw\/WKuXx21w1UI\/AAAAAAAABOQ\/s6vYvrZDcWUOAxccaiesrRg4Dz_FNzSwwCKgB\/s1600\/IMG_4553.JPG?ssl=1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WRRDXolWsIw\/WKuXx21w1UI\/AAAAAAAABOQ\/s6vYvrZDcWUOAxccaiesrRg4Dz_FNzSwwCKgB\/s400\/IMG_4553.JPG?resize=300%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nI like to sketch faces and also sculpt them from polymer clay. I have been&nbsp;<span style=\"text-align: center;\">working on a pendant the last few days, my usual format for presentation of faces. I thought I would share what I have been doing on this new project. I&#8217;ve been making face pendants around two years now&#8230;.as time allows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-sSVzmpCq8sY\/WKuY4MLzs0I\/AAAAAAAABOY\/9BkNM1jw_YgOB9qX6VEtwRfv4a6qkTsEgCKgB\/s1600\/IMG_4554.JPG\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><br \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I tend to sketch until I draw something interesting&#8230;then I pull out the clay. Sometimes the end result resembles the sketch, but usually it doesn&#8217;t and that may not be important. Drawing all the time is important. Here is the face that will go in the pendant, unpainted but otherwise finished.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-fucUGeV4gcA\/WKug7Aq6pyI\/AAAAAAAABO4\/kLF5h2Rbipw3XybjTSlHF1L8EQXf2CUcQCKgB\/s1600\/IMG_4554.JPG?ssl=1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-fucUGeV4gcA\/WKug7Aq6pyI\/AAAAAAAABO4\/kLF5h2Rbipw3XybjTSlHF1L8EQXf2CUcQCKgB\/s320\/IMG_4554.JPG?resize=320%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\nThe faces take a good chunk of time to finish. I love the process of starting them and seeing how they end.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\nOnce it is time to design the setting, I may take a photo and duplicate it on a photocopy if I&#8217;m in the mood to play with Photoshop, then sketch around them with different designs. I didn&#8217;t do that for this one. In my next post, see if I stick to my original design!&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-1f5AoIYwBFk\/WKumkzM6gpI\/AAAAAAAABP8\/Je4ax1lm06g5c-koxLG2Kna8pBVSJi7YgCKgB\/s1600\/IMG_4566.JPG?ssl=1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-1f5AoIYwBFk\/WKumkzM6gpI\/AAAAAAAABP8\/Je4ax1lm06g5c-koxLG2Kna8pBVSJi7YgCKgB\/s320\/IMG_4566.JPG?resize=240%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to sketch faces and also sculpt them from polymer clay. I have been&nbsp;working on a pendant the last few days, my usual format for presentation of faces. I thought I would share what I have been doing on this new project. I&#8217;ve been making face pendants around two years now&#8230;.as time allows. I tend to sketch until I draw something interesting&#8230;then I pull out the clay. Sometimes the end result resembles the sketch, but usually it doesn&#8217;t and that may not be important. Drawing all the time is important. Here is the face that will go in the pendant, unpainted but otherwise finished. The faces take a good chunk of time to finish. I love the process of starting them and seeing how they end.&nbsp; Once it is time to design the setting, I may take a photo and duplicate it on a photocopy if I&#8217;m in the mood to play with Photoshop, then sketch around them with different designs. I didn&#8217;t do that for this one. In my next post, see if I stick to my original design!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artwork","category-just-talking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}