{"id":4332,"date":"2021-09-08T16:41:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T15:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4332"},"modified":"2021-09-08T16:41:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T15:41:10","slug":"barrow-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/09\/barrow-downs\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrow-downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having been re-reading the early chapters of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ninD9h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lord of the Rings<\/a> recently I decided to try illustrating the Barrow-downs, my first attempt in watercolour was a mess, not sure why it just didn&#8217;t work at all. So I attempted a quick digital piece, but it looked weird and so fake it was embarrassing \ud83d\ude09 my only option of course was to combine watercolour and digital &#8211; well, it wasn&#8217;t my only option as that failed badly too \ud83d\ude42 so I started an acrylic version, I was almost happy with the sky and background hills then I added a fog filled valley and made a mess. Here&#8217;s version 97 &#8211; I went with acrylic and digital fog&#8230;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4334\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4334 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/barrowdowns-1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/barrowdowns-1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/barrowdowns-1200-460x365.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/barrowdowns-1200-840x666.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/barrowdowns-1200-768x609.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barrow-downs Acrylic 23.5&#8243; x 16.5&#8243; and digital fog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been re-reading the early chapters of Lord of the Rings recently I decided to try illustrating the Barrow-downs, my first attempt in watercolour was a mess, not sure why it just didn&#8217;t work at all. So I attempted a quick digital piece, but it looked weird and so fake it was embarrassing \ud83d\ude09 my only option of course was to combine watercolour and digital &#8211; well, it wasn&#8217;t my only option as that failed badly too \ud83d\ude42 so I started an acrylic version, I was almost happy with the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[769,768,19],"class_list":["post-4332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a","tag-barrow-downs","tag-fog","tag-tolkien"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332","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=4332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4336,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions\/4336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}