PaulinKendal
SMF Supporter
That 'Afghan Girl' is surely one of Steve McCurry's most beautiful and iconic photographs - she has a thousand years of history behind those wistful eyes.I see a huge variety of people at work - thousands and thousands a week, from all ethnicities. I'm surprised by how often I see people with truly amazingly arresting eyes. That famous photo of the afghan girl with piercing green eyes is a much more commonplace occurrence than you might imagine - and of course, in the UK, with lots of ethnic mixing, these striking variations become more common all the time.
Superb work Paul!The green marble and aged gold plinth is a very grand base for what is, after all, an irregular, a guerilla fighter.
So I tried to downplay it by using bright bronze and plentiful brown and black washes.
I've just painted in a blackened, worn joint at each corner, so it looks more like tired, gilded wood, rather than solid metal.
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And the edges of the main block were too bright after marbling, so I very roughly painted them the darkest green, with the intention of blending it in later. But I like way way it suggests the whole thing might be made of painted wood, not marble and metal.
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