{"id":3183,"date":"2015-02-07T15:52:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T14:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2015-02-07T15:52:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T14:52:55","slug":"troll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/troll\/","title":{"rendered":"More of that troll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the pen and ink version of the Troll that sat alone <a title=\"The Troll that Sat Alone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/adumbration\/2015\/02\/03\/troll-sat-alone\/\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> I decided to attempt something in paint. I quite enjoyed painting the background, well rocks are always interesting to paint, but once the troll was on his seat I felt something wasn&#8217;t quite right. So I ended up finishing off the painting in Photoshop by adding the fire and smoke then darkening the left hand side of the image. For those that don&#8217;t know it the poem (which inspired this painting) it starts&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"st\">Troll sat alone on his seat of stone,<br \/>\nAnd munched and mumbled a bare old bone;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/troll-colour-700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/troll-colour-700.jpg\" alt=\"troll-colour-700\" width=\"700\" height=\"1140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/troll-colour-700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/troll-colour-700-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/troll-colour-700-629x1024.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the pen and ink version of the Troll that sat alone link I decided to attempt something in paint. I quite enjoyed painting the background, well rocks are always interesting to paint, but once the troll was on his seat I felt something wasn&#8217;t quite right. So I ended up finishing off the painting in Photoshop by adding the fire and smoke then darkening the left hand side of the image. For those that don&#8217;t know it the poem (which inspired this painting) it starts&#8230; Troll sat alone on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[469,19,549],"class_list":["post-3183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a","tag-poem","tag-tolkien","tag-troll"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3185,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions\/3185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}