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Message:: [QUOTE="coppermania, post: 1200918, member: 18304"]It was a long winter in South Dakota and I had plenty of time to paint this picture of my favorite coin. When I am working tattooing clients an my studio, a common question is "Do you do REAL art too? Like painting". Insult! Well we consider tattooing a higher art form and although a true folk art and subculture an exacting trade. Anyway, I set out to do a painting so I could hang it in my studio and point to it and say "sure, I painted that" but it really belongs in my home. This painting is four feet wide and hangs over my fireplace which is a nice focal point to the room when you step in. I really wanted to have a Lincoln Cent that was dramatic and unique and one that not everyone could have. Of coarse, I was going to have to paint it myself. I really thought I knew this coin but having to paint one really revealed the smallest idiosyncrasies and I know this coin like never before. Acrylic on canvas about 40 total hours. Recently my Mother scored an intricate gilt plaster frame at a mission thrift store where she volunteers that inspired an oil painting of a Saint G. up close that I am working on now. I'll show that too when it is done, Matt[/QUOTE]