Quote Originally Posted by Rocketman View Post
Why would you want to paint them? I'd maybe use some colored stains or dyes at most so you can still see it was carved out of wood. I can see if you carved an inverted pattern and used it as a plaster mold, then you could make copies and would need to paint them to seal the plaster. To each his own, no two artists would create the same thing.

They remind me of the plaster works in the basilica I visited weekly growing up in Dyersville,Iowa.
I must have been tired when I read one of the comments; I thought they were suggesting you paint them. I love the gold leaf accent work. Something you don't see much of these days. My grandfather was a sign painter and I used to watch him touch up statues from the town Basilica. He would air brush parts, hand brush paint parts and touch up the accents with gold leaf when I was a kid in the 60's. Sometimes he would refinish an antique picture frame or old clock with gold leaf for a local patron.

I too love the way you finished them with the subtle accents, old world style.

Brad