Ravenclaw colours

[artsylynda at aol.com]

Guess what?  I'm a bronze artist and an actual expert on bronze!   LOL!  Cast 
bronze is a pale golden color that darkens with time. It's never  the harsh 
yellow of brass.  The color commonly known as "bronze" is a  
reddish-golden-brown color, which in the sculpture business is known as "French  brown" and is a 
patina I refuse to use.  Bronze can be patinaed with  various acids to be 
LOTS of colors - why settle for brown, which was one of the  few colors they 
could produce on bronze in "the olden days"???  If you look  at my website, you'll 
see horses and a cougar in realistic colors, all the  result of acids applied 
to the bronze at various heats (created by using a  flaming torch on the 
metal until it reaches the proper temperature.  But  when people think something 
is "bronze-colored" they're usually thinking of the  reddish golden brown color 
of old bronzes.
 
Now that you know more than you wanted to about bronze :) , I have no idea  
why the filmmakers decided to change the colors from what they were in  canon.  
Perhaps that color looks bronze in person and just doesn't "read"  as 
"bronze-colored" on film - there are times, after all, when some actor's hair  or 
eyes will look very different from what they do in real life or in other  photos 
or films, with no hair dye or contact lenses involved.  It has to do  with 
light and the gels they use on them and other factors, I suppose.  
 
Lynda Sappington, AAEA Asso., EAG
Equine Art by Lynda  Sappington, _www.thesculptedhorse.com_ 
(http://www.thesculptedhorse.com/) 
Elegant equine art in bronze and other media. Also jewelry with  an equine 
theme in 14K gold, sterling silver and vermeil. Trophies a  specialty!

My writing blog: _www.abraxan.blogspot.com_ 
(http://www.abraxan.blogspot.com/)  



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