making scultpures

I am working on project where I need to make some b/w photographs of women look like sculptural works of art. Marble, bronze, etc. I have used many filters to try to acheive this, even combining some together but with little success. CAN SOMEONE HELP ME!?![FONT=Trebuchet MS]

This is a tricky one. Could you post an example, and another pic of what you want it to look like?

Id say the simplest route is to make a good selection of the person (excluding bg) and overlay a texture over it. Do a couple layers of the same texture ie. 50% color, 50% multiply, 50% overlay. Then mask all of them out. Select the person, and paint white in the masks (with the selection still active). lemme know if i can explain this better.

Hey bud...

Thank you so much for responding. Turns out the client decided to go in a different direction. I must say I am slightly relieved! I appreciate your response though.