i would like your opinion in choice of colors

[dimgall]

i would like your opinion in choice of colors
hello people! iam painting the following figure. and i would like to hear which colors feel to you best to paint the mantle and the shirt for this figure. i base coated in purple and orange but iam not sure if these colors are ok.to help you the pteryges will be in
off white red and black on the borders.
thanks in advance

 

[gordy]

I like the purple, I really like the checked helm

 

[megroot]

Purple is good, but the orange is awfull in my opinion.
You have to choose another if it would please my eyes.

marc

 

[Diegoff]

The problem with the purple is that it was an extremely expensive dye, reserved to the royalty for ceremonial uses. It would be historically innacurate.
I would try a contrasting color with the orange, if you like it, such as some green or blue.

 

[pinsel]

hello
the helmet looks great thats an spledid idea.they where painted helmets and hwy not so.for your colours why not.i like them this way you could add an decorated bordered seam or band on the cloak to add some effect.the thorax armour is finely rendered.
i like it and would be intersted to see the endresult
cheers

 

[winston]

Purple is good, but the orange is awfull in my opinion.
You have to choose another if it would please my eyes.

marc

I am agreed with Marc

 

[DonRumata]

Very nice work!
Purple is good, orange-out of place.

Anton

 

[Einion]

I like the orange and it's a colour that was well within the range of dyes available in this period. I'd make it a little less brilliant but the basic colour looks fine to me, and it should work well with your proposed colour scheme for the pteruges.

As Diego mentions that shade of violet would have been extremely expensive at this time and only someone of the very highest rank would likely have the opportunity to wear it.

Einion

 

[dimgall]

thanks friends for your replies. i am planning to make him a noble man on war so the purple is on purpose .thanks again all for the comments.

 

[DonRumata]

Very expensive was true Tyrian, phoenician purple. Their rarity, together with the dye`s fastness to light and washing, was the reason why purple was so prized as an exclusive status symbol.

But in ancient world were some cheaper alternatives.

«A purple of sorts could be achieved by simply over-dyeing red from madder with blue from indigo or woad, and archil - a purple dye obtained by fermenting lichen in stale urine - was also widely used. Evidence of some of this faked purple clothing was brought to light by the excavations in the Bar Kochba caves in Israel.» - G.Sumner wrote this about Roman world, but I think in Archaic and Classical Greece was the same situation.

We often can see purple clothes on Tanagra figurines(not Gods and heroes, but mortal peoples), and on Archaic vases (some elements decorated with purple color).

And if your hoplite is rich, noble man and his cloak dyed by true purple - why not?



Regards,
Anton