Butterfly Fairy Firescreen

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The new Butterfly Fairy firescreen is a private commission I delivered today. This work closely resembles the piece I created for my wife's Christmas present several years ago.

The design is inspired by a show at the North Carolina Museum of Art on Alfonse Mucha (the founder of Art Nouveau).

This version of the fire screen is slightly larger than the one I made for Joy and the ornamentation is slightly different. The side panels are made from electric motor parts as is the fairy's halo. The larger circle is an old lamp shade ring. The spirals in the wings are pieces of welding rod hand bent. The Butterfly Fairy was plasma cut in 16 gauge sheet steel. The whole was industrially powder coat painted in gold.

The two folding side panels are 12 inches wide by 36 inches high ( 30 cm x 90 cm)
The main front panel is 39 inches high by 36 wide (1m x 90 cm)

Tiger Bench

A childhood friend commissioned this bench in honor of his late wife who died of breast cancer. She was active with the local school their children attend in Hillsborough, NC. The school's mascot is a tiger and I worked off of the drawing the kids sent--this must have been a very hungry tiger, judging by the way it is licking its chops!

The kids can "ride the tiger" to sit on it. Made in 3/16ths steel. 5 ft long, painted and then commercially clear coated.

Notice the optical illusion created by the stripes on the tiger's back-in one photo it looks as if the top sags inward to the middle and in another, it looks like the middle of tiger's back is higher--it is all really flat!

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