Jim R
SMF Supporter
Hi Peter
You're getting rather good at this
One of your best.
Jim
You're getting rather good at this
One of your best.
Jim
Thanks Peter did the info. Most informative and helpful as always.Lee - Many thanks. I think it's meant to be a cloak.
Steve - I had to give the cloak a couple of layers of pure magenta to rectify it, then deepen some of the shadows. It looks a bit flatter than it did, but I guess magenta must be similar to red and hard to highlight. I'm trying to hold my nerve and not re-paint it in another colour.
Your poor cats. A trying time for them this time of year. Our Jack Russell has always been impervious to bangs fortunately. On to the GB today.
Andrew - There are many contemporary busts of Julius Caesar and they are all fairly consistent characterful depictions, so there is little doubt as to what he looked like. There doesn't appear to be any attempt to glamourize the image, unlike his successor Augustus who is depicted as god-like, but who was actually short and had bad skin. Suetonius also gives a verbal description (tall, fair, well built and with piercing brown eyes, which tallies, and he mentions the grey hair, though he does say that Caesar was bald and tried to hide the fact by wearing laurel leaves. As to the skin tones etc, you just have to make an estimation of ethnicity etc.
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