Bryanna Marie, an artist in Tuscon, Arizona, pushes the limits of handmade miniature paintings. She makes elaborate, detailed, and precise paintings of landscapes, fantastic scenes, and people on pennies.
She described her practices to Bored Panda:
The average painting can take up to ten hours to complete, but the process is stretched between multiple days to allow drying time between each layer. If I have multiple pieces I'm working on at once, it can take weeks to complete one piece. Everything I achieve is done traditionally using oils, along with simple mediums to help with the flow of the paints, and of course, tiny brushes.
I chose coins simply because I prefer to paint on metal, and preferably copper, so the penny was the perfect fit for the job. And yes, I do prefer pennies minted before 1981 because of their higher copper content!
You can see more of Marie's art on her Instagram page.
-via Design You Trust
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We have one cent coins, not pennies, which were English coins before the pound became 100 pence.
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