{"id":3392,"date":"2016-02-01T12:59:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T11:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3392"},"modified":"2016-02-01T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T11:59:13","slug":"meanwhile-in-moria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/meanwhile-in-moria\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile in Moria&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of the month over on John Howe&#8217;s website was Fiat Lux &#8220;Light should be the focus of the theme, whether it&#8217;s shadows, flames, rising or setting suns or distant stars. Lots of possibilities, from Prometheus bringing fire to mankind to the lovely shadow cast by an object from the lamp on your table&#8230;&#8221; So, I wondered how little light was required to illustrate a scene &#8211; more specifically if I could get away with using as little light as possible. Turns out it is quite difficult at times and I ended up painting areas far too light \ud83d\ude09 anyway&#8230; this is Gandalf as he sits through the &#8216;nights&#8217; watch in the guard room during the Fellowships journey through Moria.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/gandalf-moria-700.jpg\" alt=\"gandalf-moria-700\" width=\"700\" height=\"891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/gandalf-moria-700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/gandalf-moria-700-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Acrylic on board 16 x 12 inch then some photoshop work to get the levels and tint I wanted but could not quite achieve with the brush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of the month over on John Howe&#8217;s website was Fiat Lux &#8220;Light should be the focus of the theme, whether it&#8217;s shadows, flames, rising or setting suns or distant stars. Lots of possibilities, from Prometheus bringing fire to mankind to the lovely shadow cast by an object from the lamp on your table&#8230;&#8221; So, I wondered how little light was required to illustrate a scene &#8211; more specifically if I could get away with using as little light as possible. Turns out it is quite difficult at times&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":[89,52,54,561,19],"class_list":["post-3392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a","tag-gandalf","tag-illustration","tag-john-howe","tag-moria","tag-tolkien"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392","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=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3394,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions\/3394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}