A bust strips figure painting down to the part people actually look at. The castings in this short selection cover a Cossack ataman in Wehrmacht service, a polar pilot wrapped against the cold and Captain Jaroš, each ending at the shoulders so that the whole of your time goes into the face, the headgear and whatever sits on the collar. There is no balance to solve and no groundwork to plan.
Because the head is large, flesh work has nowhere to hide: thin layers, a mapped shadow pattern and a brush that keeps its point matter more than the number of shades you mix. Painters who get on with busts usually move to the association's 120 mm figures next, which ask the same of you across a whole body. Further busts in the main catalogue are in model busts, and the rest of this range is under ŘOP figures.
