{"id":160,"date":"2011-02-14T19:40:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T00:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jewelryartsinstitute.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=160"},"modified":"2011-02-14T19:40:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T00:40:29","slug":"jewelry-arts-institutes-student-of-the-week-sarah-blumenthal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/2011\/02\/14\/jewelry-arts-institutes-student-of-the-week-sarah-blumenthal\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewelry Arts Institute&#8217;s Student of the Week- Sarah Blumenthal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewelryartsinstitute.com\/studentworkoftheweek.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-161\" src=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/files\/2011\/02\/sarahblumenthal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/files\/2011\/02\/sarahblumenthal.jpg 500w, https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/files\/2011\/02\/sarahblumenthal-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our latest\u00a0 Student of the Week- Sarah Blumenthal.\u00a0 These fab earrings were made from wax and I thought their design was appropriate for today, Valentines Day.\u00a0 A few weeks ago\u00a0 I was discussing the virtues of using both metal and wax techniques for freedom in design.\u00a0 I thought we could go into a bit more detail about what medium is best for what effects.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah used hard green carving wax to make these hearts.\u00a0 Green carving wax is great for three dimensional forms.\u00a0 You can start with a block,\u00a0 trace out your basic outline and with nothing else but a file and saw and maybe a couple of burs,\u00a0 make any design you like.\u00a0\u00a0 These great earrings are a perfect example of putting wax to it&#8217;s best use.\u00a0 Trying to make this same design in metal would be very difficult and a lot more time consuming.\u00a0 With wax,\u00a0 Sarah could make decisions as she went.\u00a0 Letting the piece speak to you as you go along can be a really fun and creative process.\u00a0 Working in metals tends to be less forgiving and requires more planning.\u00a0 We will keep talking about the strong points of using wax and metal techniques in design but here is to Sarah.\u00a0 Well done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our latest\u00a0 Student of the Week- Sarah Blumenthal.\u00a0 These fab earrings were made from wax and I thought their design was appropriate for today, Valentines Day.\u00a0 A few weeks ago\u00a0 I was discussing the virtues of using both metal and wax techniques for freedom in design.\u00a0 I thought we could go into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}