{"id":8512,"date":"2021-03-19T15:34:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T18:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/?p=8512"},"modified":"2021-03-26T15:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:58:44","slug":"focus-on-teardrops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/archives\/8512","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Teardrops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/skgallery\/turned-art\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard_210222_4500-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Trio of Teardrops\" class=\"wp-image-8511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard_210222_4500-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard_210222_4500-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard_210222_4500-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard_210222_4500-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard_210222_4500-690x460.jpg 690w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard_210222_4500-980x653.jpg 980w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard_210222_4500.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Trio of Teardrops<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>See what happens when you leave two teardrops on their own together! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After nearly 40 years of making the teardrop box, which has become one of my signature pieces, I decided to start turning them in various sizes, as they look so nice in a grouping this way. Often, if people have not seen the actual work, but just photographs of them, they don&#8217;t realize that these are boxes as the join is almost invisible. For this reason I wanted to show one of them open as you see above. The baby one is only just over 1&#8243; in diameter, just big enough to fit a ring snugly inside. The bigger ones range in size between 2.5&#8243; and 3&#8243; in diameter.  These are made in African Blackwood each from a single piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/skgallery\/turned-art\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard_210222_4498-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Multiple Teardrops\" class=\"wp-image-8510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard_210222_4498-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard_210222_4498-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard_210222_4498-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard_210222_4498-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard_210222_4498-690x460.jpg 690w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard_210222_4498-980x653.jpg 980w, https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard_210222_4498.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Multiple Teardrops<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See what happens when you leave two teardrops on their own together! \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nAfter nearly 40 years of making the teardrop box, which has become one of my signature pieces, I decided to start turning them in various sizes, as they look so nice in a grouping this way. Often, if people have not seen the actual work, but just photographs of them, they don&#8217;t realize that these are boxes as the join is almost invisible. For this reason I wanted to show one of them open as you see above. The baby one is only just over 1&#8243; in diameter, just big enough to fit a ring snugly inside. The bigger ones range in size between 2.5&#8243; and 3&#8243; in diameter.  These are made in African Blackwood each from a single piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[328,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxes","category-turning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/skennard_210222_4500.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenkennard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}