{"id":64,"date":"2010-08-15T20:09:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T00:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/?p=64"},"modified":"2012-01-25T20:36:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T00:36:06","slug":"stone-stairs-carreg-cennen-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/2010\/08\/15\/stone-stairs-carreg-cennen-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone stairs, Carreg Cennen Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d stay on sketches and photos of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/2010\/07\/18\/sketches-of-harlech-castle\/\">Harlech Castle<\/a> for a while. But I finally finished this drawing so I figured I&#8217;d go ahead and post it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/2010\/08\/15\/stone-stairs-carreg-cennen-castle\/castlestairslkm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-65\" title=\"Stone stairs, Carreg Cennen Castle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/CastleStairsLKM.png\" alt=\"Stone stairs, Carreg Cennen Castle, Wales\" width=\"400\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/CastleStairsLKM.png 500w, https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/CastleStairsLKM-85x150.png 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>I shot the photo several years ago; found it while going through the extensive collection I have of unlabled and undated images.<\/p>\n<p>The lights and darks in the photo, as well as the perspective, provided a good drawing exercise.<\/p>\n<p>I did it in two rounds; first, an hour or so with only an HB pencil; then, weeks later, a productive two or so hours with a 2B and 4B.<\/p>\n<p>It got kinda yucky toward the end; but most of it turned out OK.<\/p>\n<p>I may draw it again, this time in colored pencil. It&#8217;s not a particularly colorful image, so it could be good transitional exercise for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/2010\/08\/15\/stone-stairs-carreg-cennen-castle\/cerregcennenstairs\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-79\" title=\"CarregCennenStairs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/CerregCennenStairs-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of stone stairs, Carreg Cennen Castle, Wales\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/CerregCennenStairs-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/CerregCennenStairs-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/CerregCennenStairs.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d stay on sketches and photos of Harlech Castle for a while. But I finally finished this drawing so I figured I&#8217;d go ahead and post it. I shot the photo several years ago; found it while going through the extensive collection I have of unlabled and undated images. The lights and darks&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/2010\/08\/15\/stone-stairs-carreg-cennen-castle\/\" title=\"Stone stairs, Carreg Cennen Castle\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stone stairs, Carreg Cennen Castle<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[7,8,9,10,19],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-drawing-2","category-wales","tag-carreg-cennen","tag-castle","tag-drawing","tag-photo","tag-wales"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}