The Dragon

The Dragon was a huge project. This monster took me six months and endless hours of of fun.
First I took two wall racks and sized them up for this project.









Then I made 104 tiles of pennies that had 98 pennies each on them. With a stain to tint tin coins I made all of them relatively the same patina.

This is both panels together 4 ft. x 8 ft. weighing in at over 150 lbs.

Now the fun begins. From here on out is and airbrush, engraving and hand painted. Every line and scale is engraved by hand. The trick was that pennies are not solid copper anymore. When you scratch then they are white and the they can be painted. When the scales are engraved and you walk by it the engraving effect looks like it moves.

I did not know any of this when I started this.

Me putting on the finishing touches on about an hour before delivery.

Finished