{"id":2939,"date":"2015-11-26T20:01:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stichler.co.uk\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2015-11-26T20:01:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T20:01:07","slug":"finished-at-foss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/11\/26\/finished-at-foss\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished at ‘Foss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thankfully the weather stayed kind for consecutive days and I was able to crack on well with the Wilberfoss\/”Wild Boar Foss” carving. The lettering on the scroll was first, and I decided on a Medieval-style font which seemed apt; with the scroll dropping down vertically rather than being horizontal as I’d originally planned, the spacing of the letters was a concern ~ having letters like “I” and “L” at the top gave an illusion that they were further apart, and the letters below appeared squashed, despite me having made a template for size. I experimented with staggering the “I” and the “L” and the “SS”, but it didn’t look right; the important thing is that it is easy to read ~ and it had to be as clear as possible due to the discolouration of the wood again, which makes certain letters harder to pick out.<\/p>\n

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The last thing was carving a representation of the River Foss; I toyed with the idea of using the shape of the Foss from an arial photograph or map, but felt it would be too abstract for a casual viewer. With the space for the river being underneath the boar, there was a risk too that I’d make it look like the animal was either hovering above water or about to jump in; the best course of action was to make the river quite stylized and take it across on an angle, and shape under the boar’s feet to create a kind of shelf.<\/p>\n

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Thankfully the weather stayed kind for consecutive days and I was able to crack on well with the Wilberfoss\/”Wild Boar Foss” carving. The lettering on the scroll was first, and I decided on a Medieval-style font which seemed apt; with the scroll dropping down vertically rather than being horizontal as I’d originally planned, the spacing […]<\/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-2939","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\/2939","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=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2945,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/2945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}