{"id":5635,"date":"2026-09-21T15:52:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5635"},"modified":"2026-09-21T15:52:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:52:53","slug":"trying-hard-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2026\/09\/trying-hard-2\/","title":{"rendered":"trying hard ;-)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to get my hand\/arm coordination back into working order; I&#8217;d say so far it is 50\/50 there are periods where I don&#8217;t notice anything wrong, and others where my hand goes where it wants regardless of my brain shouting &#8220;go left&#8221;. Anyway, I picked a couple of images I took at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2026\/09\/a-wee-break\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crawick Multiverse<\/a> last week as references and started splashing paint around &#8211; both are A4, and after picking up the car from the garage this morning and receiving the bill in the form of a bound book with an index, glossary etc., they&#8217;re both for sale (\u00a34000 each or both for \u00a310000).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/multiverse-wc-1-1200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5636\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/multiverse-wc-1-1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/multiverse-wc-1-1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/multiverse-wc-1-1200-471x365.jpg 471w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/multiverse-wc-1-1200-840x651.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/multiverse-wc-1-1200-768x595.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/multiverse-wc-2-1200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5637\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/multiverse-wc-2-1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/multiverse-wc-2-1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/multiverse-wc-2-1200-480x365.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/multiverse-wc-2-1200-840x639.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/multiverse-wc-2-1200-768x584.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to get my hand\/arm coordination back into working order; I&#8217;d say so far it is 50\/50 there are periods where I don&#8217;t notice anything wrong, and others where my hand goes where it wants regardless of my brain shouting &#8220;go left&#8221;. Anyway, I picked a couple of images I took at Crawick Multiverse last week as references and started splashing paint around &#8211; both are A4, and after picking up the car from the garage this morning and receiving the bill in the form of a bound&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[893,616,269],"class_list":["post-5635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a","tag-crawick-multiverse","tag-standing-stones","tag-watercolour"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635","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=5635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5639,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions\/5639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}