"Sideview Penny" Print

Coin Print
I made this for Printmaking during my Sophomore year. The objective was to carve a design into a copper plate. We would then ink the plate, and run it (along with a piece of paper) through a printing press. The image here is what I was left with.

Because pennies are copper, and we had to come up with an original design, I thought it would be interesting to recreate the penny with a different view of Abraham Lincoln's head.

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