Lincoln Penny Revisited

I recently completed another portrait of Abraham Lincoln out of American pennies. I had a number of left over coins from my previous project “Two Sides of the Same Coin,” and thought I would put them to good use. The piece is mounted on a copper plate, and is approximately 18″x20″.Here is an image of the project before I enhanced the pennies by lightening and darkening selected areas with a pencil eraser and pen.

Here it is against my fireplace mantle.