Relief Carving Project for kids - coloring the background, or coloring the foreground?

Relief carving

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 Different periods of Egyptian art used different carving techniques. This project shows you how much harder some ways of carving are than other ways.
 

Shrine of Sesostris Old Kingdom Egypt

First try making a picture the way the Old Kingdom Egyptians did it, by coloring in the whole background but none of the figures.  Next, try it the way they did it in the Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom, coloring the figures and leaving  the background alone. Which way is faster? Why? Which one do you like better?   Ramses Killing a Libyan, New Kingdom Egypt

Egyptian art
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