{"id":3512,"date":"2017-04-20T11:53:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T10:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2017-04-25T18:04:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T17:04:52","slug":"sketching-the-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/sketching-the-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketching The Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to use more carbon is my sketches and so I tried, Royal Sovereign Wolff&#8217;s Carbon (2B) for a couple of sketches. They&#8217;re quite nice to use but hard to get a scan of the finished piece that looks anything like the original \ud83d\ude09 I also tried out the Derwent Artists Sketching Pencil (Midnight) for one of the sketches which was also nice to use but I found it a little waxy. Anyway, the first and the third sketch were made using the Wolff&#8217;s Carbon pencil and the middle one using a Derwent. I was working A4 but found it a little restrictive and need to use larger paper to properly try them out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/graeme_stonesketch_01_700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/graeme_stonesketch_01_700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/graeme_stonesketch_01_700-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/graeme_stonesketch_03_700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/graeme_stonesketch_03_700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/graeme_stonesketch_03_700-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to use more carbon is my sketches and so I tried, Royal Sovereign Wolff&#8217;s Carbon (2B) for a couple of sketches. They&#8217;re quite nice to use but hard to get a scan of the finished piece that looks anything like the original \ud83d\ude09 I also tried out the Derwent Artists Sketching Pencil (Midnight) for one of the sketches which was also nice to use but I found it a little waxy. Anyway, the first and the third sketch were made using the Wolff&#8217;s Carbon pencil and the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[44,71,616],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a","tag-art","tag-sketches","tag-standing-stones"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","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=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3566,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions\/3566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}