What do you think of the Queen’s new statue?

DillytheGardener

It’s very hard, hair like a helmet, the ears, well they don’t look soft that’s for sure…

I don’t mind the first sculptures work JaneJudge, it has a softness and flow to it,( which the Princess Diana sculpture sorely lacked). It also in a artistic shorthand (for want of a better phrase) describes her pert face well.

Hope it is not treason to say the queens hair IS like a helmet ?!

Oh nooo ?
She looks so stern and grumpy.
Hair looks like it's been squigged through some sort of childs toy plastine thingy.

She is a cuddly great grandmother with compassion
and a sense of humour that was very much in evidence on her zoom meetings.?

Looks like a death mask

Pretty awful really, much like the Diana statue is.?

DillytheGardener

It’s very hard, hair like a helmet, the ears, well they don’t look soft that’s for sure…

I don’t mind the first sculptures work JaneJudge, it has a softness and flow to it,( which the Princess Diana sculpture sorely lacked). It also in a artistic shorthand (for want of a better phrase) describes her pert face well.

yes, her face is quite elfin I thought

With both an artist son & dil and watching Fake or Fortune, I feel like a right art connoisseur ?

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It’s very hard, hair like a helmet, the ears, well they don’t look soft that’s for sure…

I don’t mind the first sculptures work JaneJudge, it has a softness and flow to it,( which the Princess Diana sculpture sorely lacked). It also in a artistic shorthand (for want of a better phrase) describes her pert face well.

BlueBelle

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Oh …scary.

Well, it certainly isn’t flattering.

Which I now can’t find….

It looks scary in that photo, BlueBelle! Better in the video I’ve looked at.

I am not keen either and yet have you seen the shortlist for the Emily Williamson sculptures? It most probably deserves a thread of its own actually

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Ok I ve found it and I think it’s pretty awful, she looks harder and uglier than she is, even in her old age
She’s got a very furrowed forehead and the mouth is too wide
I think he could have made her look nicer without it being untruthful
If I was a generation after her death I would not think she was very pleasing to look at like when I see statues of Victoria who may possible have looked better in real life

Any links I haven’t seen it

That's often how I look best

I think she’s better looking than that, but maybe it will look all right in context and at a distance.l

I've not seen a picture of it, so can't comment, but I do hope it's better than the Diana statue. (Although maybe that looks better in situ than it does on a 2 dimensional photo, which is all I've seen).

I think it’s lovely.

MoorlandMooner

Surely HMs hair has been done by Mr Whippy at the PlayDoh Hair Salon.

Surely HMs hair has been done by Mr Whippy at the PlayDoh Hair Salon.

It's not finished yet though, is it? I think it's looking good. Much better than the Diana statue anyway!

Just had a quick look 25Avalon - not the best I have to agree. It looks more like Princess Margaret ?