Hobo Nickel Portraits

Steve Adams · Dec 20, 2009

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 ).

Billzach · Dec 20, 2009

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.

D.DOUGLAS · Dec 20, 2009

Those are very nice Steve!

mdengraver · Dec 20, 2009

Very nice!

Who are the portraits of if I may ask?

Steve Adams · Dec 20, 2009

These are the clients three daughters. I'll check to see if giving names is okay.

tattooer601 · Dec 20, 2009

Thats real cool, do you have the photos o compare the to?....nevertheless well done, it is a coins space that confines detail.

Lee · Dec 20, 2009

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.

Keith · Dec 21, 2009

Very Nice. Love seeing your work, true perfection!
Keith

CJ Tate · Dec 21, 2009

Lovely additions to a collection.

KCSteve · Dec 21, 2009

Wow are those clean!

gtsport · Dec 21, 2009

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.

Joe Mason · Dec 21, 2009

The portraits look great Steve. Thanks for sharing.

Joe

Steve Adams · Dec 21, 2009

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.

monk · Dec 22, 2009

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 !.

Hobo Nickel Portraits

Steve Adams

Elite Cafe Member

Attachments

Billzach

Elite Cafe Member

D.DOUGLAS

Elite Cafe Member

mdengraver

~ Elite 1000 Member ~

Steve Adams

Elite Cafe Member

tattooer601

Member

Lee

~ Elite 1000 Member ~

Keith

Elite Cafe Member

CJ Tate

Elite Cafe Member

KCSteve

~ Elite 1000 Member ~

gtsport

Elite Cafe Member

Joe Mason

Elite Cafe Member

Steve Adams

Elite Cafe Member

monk

Moderator

Latest posts

Sponsors