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Oil Painting St. Gaudens

I decided to take an oil painting class this academic quarter. I did a little painting back in high school but only in acrylic, so I was excited to start working with oil.

A recent assignment was to create a collage, then paint it (18x24 canvas). I created a numismatic themed collage with background space filled with Rockwell's "Four Freedoms." Today I tackled the St. Gaudens $20 portion of the collage. Total work time was about 2 and a half hours. I still need to finish the periphery of the obverse, which should take around another 45 mins. Colors used were a cad yellow, cad red, cobalt, ochre, mixing white, and a touch of raw umber. Diameter of the coin is around 11".


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