Hello
and thanks for your friendly words upon my Tamerlan. It's nice that so many guys like him.
Paul, it's no problem for me to tell you how I painted the patterns:
the pattern on the helm cloth is painted first in a dark reddish brown as a base. I worked from in- to outside, so you only have to paint one correct outer line. Now the yellow followed (mix of flat yellow and redbrown) the same way. The smal parts are painted then with a fine brush with many many corrections until it looked like now.
The pattern on the shoulder were painted simialary. First a brown wood base. Then with a very very dilluted dark brown simple circles - one next to the other. Next step were the lights with brown wood plus yellow and at last ivory. Now followed the outlining of the circles with another dark brown with much water.
That was all and I don't think this is so difficult.
By the way: the anatomy of this bust is based on the original remains of Tamerlan (Timur the lame) which were found 1940 in the former USSR.
Regards
Frank
