"More Articles" Section Offset Three Articles

So back before I switched to self-hosted, on WP.com, the oxygen theme filled recent and more articles section with the most recent articles. Since switching, I’ve had to manually change everything. I got Recent Articles to show the top three recent articles that are not stickied, but how do I get the More Articles to show the articles that are not stickied but also not the three after that?

Right now I have:

<?php $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 4, ‘post__not_in’ => get_option( ‘sticky_posts’ ) ); ?>

I tried adding an offset, but it doesn’t seem to have worked? I just want to display the most recent articles without the stickied posts and without the most recent three posts after that.

<?php $args = array( ‘offset’ => 3, ‘posts_per_page’ => 4, ‘post__not_in’ => get_option( ‘sticky_posts’ ) ); ?>

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