{"id":1360,"date":"2014-09-23T20:17:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T20:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stichler.co.uk\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2014-09-23T20:17:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T20:17:47","slug":"puck-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/09\/23\/puck-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Puck Started"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was nice to have a day at ground level after tottering about on ladders for a week; give it a day or two and I’ll be moaning about having aching knees from kneeling down for hours on end!<\/p>\n

I’d done a couple of sketches last night to give myself something to work from, but mainly of Puck’s head ~ I had a vague idea of him being surrounded by oak leaves as though he were hiding, and the leaves would make a link with the main design. I hadn’t planned anything for his hands, thinking the carving would suggest the position of them as it went along.<\/p>\n

\"allen-stichler-york-carving\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 The face roughly drawn on the tree.<\/p>\n

\"york-carving-allen-stichler\"<\/a>\u00a0 The carving starts.<\/p>\n

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I’m happy-ish with that for a first day.<\/p>\n

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The view from Grays Court Hotel steps, the carving standing out quite nicely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was nice to have a day at ground level after tottering about on ladders for a week; give it a day or two and I’ll be moaning about having aching knees from kneeling down for hours on end! I’d done a couple of sketches last night to give myself something to work from, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carving-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}