This is my third try. Hopefully this works. Here are three nickel portraits for all to view. These are Verne Walrafen's daughters Dawn (upper left), Sonya ( lower center) and Natasha ( upper right ).
Steve
I,ve done a few portrait coin carvings, but they are hard for me to do..After this year I plan to get more involved into portrait coin carving and fade out of regular coin carving.
Steves client is a friend of mine as well and have seen pictures of the daughters during my visits. welll done Steve. Portraiture is the toughest of them all.
Having seen these in person when Steve was working on them, I'd have to say the pictures don't do them justice. Seeing the light play over the coin's surfaces in your hand shows them as true works of art. Nice diamonds, too.
Thanks everyone for the nice comments. Portraits can be tough, even I agree with that. Although I do portraits almost on a weekly basis, they are usually much larger. Nickels are a challenging canvas. As usual, I turned to Sam for some advise for how to get these stones set in. He gets the credit for telling me how, although I get the credit for any imperfections. I will try to improve on my setting skills.
i'm sure verne will have a very spacial place for those 3 in his collection. they are great !and the more i look at them, the control you exercised in handling the depth is beyond amazing !.