chunkolini
celebrity artiste
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Thanks for advice and help while I was prepping for this job.
Particularly to forum member Ichris for reccomending Powdermoonkeez in Pontardawe for powder coating and https://www.foredowel.com/about-us.html for the laser cutting, a fabulous job. they changed the initial design twice and provided the petals and trumpets for 600 daffodils for a great price
The brief was for a human sized figure covered in 557 daffodils to represent every person who dies each day missing out on vital end of life care.
Rather than describing the whole business here is the link of my website https://www.artinsteel.co.uk/about-1
it was a bit of a mad business as I had six weeks to get it designed, made and delivered bua had the last touches done the day before wqe drove it to London
Daffodils were fun
first prototype a quick lash up to get my head round the shapes.
No way was I hand making 600 of these
so off to the laser cutter people six hundred bases and the trumpets cut in strips
the process, cut strip, roll round a tube. Tack stud on the back of the of the petal using my little jig. see below
tack petal onto trumpet, whack the top with a ball to open the trumpet, then put a piece of bar (top lefy) into the trumpet and wallop it again to dish the petals.
time about three minutes per flower.
Then using a jig weld nuts onto the body and screw daffs into them
a right pain as they work like gears
then when the body is covered take off the daffs and send of for powder coating but first put bolts into the nuts to keep the threads clear.
What a great look, Kath was an absolute legend through the whole process driving shifting a heavy delicate beast and looking after a stressed out exhausted artist
The it was just put the flowers back on after coating and drive it to London.
I was terrified that we would open the van to a shower of daff's but amazingly only one had escaped and was promptly pocketed by Kath
The artist was knocked out in the end by Tower Bridge
My interfering niece (bless her cotton socks) put a post on facebook asking for the runners to take selfies then at midnight put a video with all the selfies
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This did getboth of us blubbering
Job done figure was installed at the Excel at about 11.00pm; after we were rear ended by a biker in one of Londons lovely tunnels. Luckily a nice guy and no injuries.
Then a few days later 'oh can you collect it from the excel and take it to th hospice in cardiff' they could not find a courier. so off we go again.
Whoops the van hire people had given us a smaller van with a smaller door but we wrestled it in and again no daffs fell off.
one had been stolen in London despite them being loctited on. I predict a plague of yellow boils for the thief.
Amazing; a big big PR company in London employee stamped her feet and lobbied for a mad artist in Wales to do the job. Brave of her; but look at the results.
We are officially daffodiled out here.
I was dreaming of them the other night
My face painted half green half yellow with eyes and lips contrasting. wearing a green catsut and yellow cape. I was rushing about throwing steel daffodils at miscreants in super hero mode,. I was call Daff O'Dill
any AI enthusiasts are welcoem to knock up a sketch of that
Last job is to install it at Velindre hospice in Penarth
Particularly to forum member Ichris for reccomending Powdermoonkeez in Pontardawe for powder coating and https://www.foredowel.com/about-us.html for the laser cutting, a fabulous job. they changed the initial design twice and provided the petals and trumpets for 600 daffodils for a great price
The brief was for a human sized figure covered in 557 daffodils to represent every person who dies each day missing out on vital end of life care.
Rather than describing the whole business here is the link of my website https://www.artinsteel.co.uk/about-1
it was a bit of a mad business as I had six weeks to get it designed, made and delivered bua had the last touches done the day before wqe drove it to London
Daffodils were fun
first prototype a quick lash up to get my head round the shapes.
No way was I hand making 600 of these
so off to the laser cutter people six hundred bases and the trumpets cut in strips
the process, cut strip, roll round a tube. Tack stud on the back of the of the petal using my little jig. see below
tack petal onto trumpet, whack the top with a ball to open the trumpet, then put a piece of bar (top lefy) into the trumpet and wallop it again to dish the petals.
time about three minutes per flower.
Then using a jig weld nuts onto the body and screw daffs into them
a right pain as they work like gears
then when the body is covered take off the daffs and send of for powder coating but first put bolts into the nuts to keep the threads clear.
What a great look, Kath was an absolute legend through the whole process driving shifting a heavy delicate beast and looking after a stressed out exhausted artist
The it was just put the flowers back on after coating and drive it to London.
I was terrified that we would open the van to a shower of daff's but amazingly only one had escaped and was promptly pocketed by Kath
The artist was knocked out in the end by Tower Bridge
My interfering niece (bless her cotton socks) put a post on facebook asking for the runners to take selfies then at midnight put a video with all the selfies
This did getboth of us blubbering
Job done figure was installed at the Excel at about 11.00pm; after we were rear ended by a biker in one of Londons lovely tunnels. Luckily a nice guy and no injuries.
Then a few days later 'oh can you collect it from the excel and take it to th hospice in cardiff' they could not find a courier. so off we go again.
Whoops the van hire people had given us a smaller van with a smaller door but we wrestled it in and again no daffs fell off.
one had been stolen in London despite them being loctited on. I predict a plague of yellow boils for the thief.
Amazing; a big big PR company in London employee stamped her feet and lobbied for a mad artist in Wales to do the job. Brave of her; but look at the results.
We are officially daffodiled out here.
I was dreaming of them the other night
My face painted half green half yellow with eyes and lips contrasting. wearing a green catsut and yellow cape. I was rushing about throwing steel daffodils at miscreants in super hero mode,. I was call Daff O'Dill
any AI enthusiasts are welcoem to knock up a sketch of that
Last job is to install it at Velindre hospice in Penarth
