I picked these 3D green plastic busts up and some others from an op shop (charity shop) for a couple of dollars. I undercoated these black and painted them bronze with a paint colour called Tinny tin' and highlighted with bright bronze. It doesn't matter that one broke when I was cutting off flash as I am using it in a ruin. I could just as easily painted them in naturalistic colours as did the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. I might yet do that with some others.
I met a traveller from an antique land,
ReplyDeleteWho said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Nice bit of Percy Shelley
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias