Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Abraham Lincoln



This is my first stab at a knife painting in oil. The piece is 18x24. I don't have any idea what Lincoln's skin tone was, so I'll just have to wing it. George Peter Alexander Healy did the official White House portrait of President Lincoln. Here's the outline, so, we'll just see how it goes.
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