Caitlin Lindstrom-Milne by no means imagined she would turn out to be a tattoo artist. Seven years in the past, the Dawson School graduate didn’t really feel like there have been any careers the place she may correctly apply her inventive expertise — till a tattoo artist approached her.
“It was type of like a light-weight bulb went off and I used to be like, ‘Oh, that is really a very good alternative for me to share my ardour with artwork,’” mentioned Lindstrom-Milne.
Now the 27-year-old initially from Saint-Lazare is sharing that zeal utilizing one other medium. She was chosen from a discipline of candidates to design the Royal Canadian Mint’s Remembrance Day coin this yr.
“I used to be honoured to be requested to do such a particular coin as it’s such an essential day,” she advised International Information. “I did have a grandpa who fought within the battle, and I believe he can be pleased with me. I want he may have seen how far I’ve come and that he may see the coin in particular person.”
The $20 silver coin is named A Wreath of Remembrance: Lest We Overlook. The design, which features a wreath of six different-sized, colored poppies with a maple leaf within the center, took Lindstrom-Milne one week to attract.
Caitlin Lindstrom-Milne’s commemorative coin.
Courtesy of the Royal Canadian Mint
The artist mentioned she used the golden ratio to give attention to the poppies in its a centesimal yr because the Flower of Remembrance.
“In order that’s the place I used to be impressed to type of make the wreath of the poppies type of go from a bit small to massive and … make your eye comply with the round form of a coin,” she mentioned.
It’s not her first time designing a commemorative coin. The Royal Canadian Mint first requested her to use in 2019. Since then she’s designed three cash: the Remembrance Day coin, a grizzly bear coin and a black-footed ferret for endangered animals.
She additionally has a fourth coin within the works that she’s “not allowed to speak about but” however hints that it will likely be coming in 2022.
She mentioned each single time she wins she will get “shocked.”
“There’s all the time that little piece of me that hopes that I win, however I type of simply, like, put it in the back of my head, ’trigger I don’t need to get too assured with it.”
Lindstrom-Milne says she is constant to seek out methods to develop as an artist and is honoured that coin collectors and shoppers proceed to assist her work.
“It’s cool that anyone has a bit of me with them because it pertains to tattooing and cash.”
In the event you’re hoping to choose one up, it’s too late. All 7,500 cash have bought out.
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