The birth of Daisy
My original idea was to fuse a racer bicycle with my sheep template. I thought the handlebars as horns would make a handsome ram.
Two basic sheep templates…the journey begins.
While rooting through skips and dumps I turned up a couple of little girls bikes and started to rethink my plan A. Considering I live in a house of women I decided to get in touch with my feminine side. Here the raw materials.
I was lucky enough to get my friend Jeremy, a top class custom bike builder to do my welding for me. He saw the humor in it and did quite an artistic job.
I started preparing the surface on a hot April afternoon. Photos by lola.
I was advised to invest in a good quality primer. The instructions on the tin told me two coats with 24 hours between them, so I did as I was told.
Finally I’m painting, I knew this project was going to more labour intensive than painting any oil on canvas.
All primed and ready for some real colour. Daisy is finally taking shape, I have an idea of how she might eventually look.
I needed to mix up a nice shade of pink to echo the Daisy bike’s original colour. I took advise from two girlie experts.
It is such a relief to see a colour other than grey rust primer.
Deciding against black the legs and head were painted ivory. The original bike had cream coloured tyres.
It took half a day to cut contact and create the all important daisy stickers…
…and ten minutes to stick them on.
Late into the night I replaced the saddle and added sheep-eye-stickers and the girlie tastles.
A happy artist. Daisy is ready for transport to Tinahely where she’ll be mounted on a base and the placed in her summer grazing place along with the rest of the flock.
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