I found my love for metalwork during my foundation year at Cabrillo College. Seeing it on the curriculum on 3D Design and Craft was why I chose to join the course. Over the years, I've found myself choosing projects that test my skillset to the limit. By far, this windmill was the most testing thing I've ever made...
Handcrank copper windmil based on the Folklore of Sussex Smuggler, John Olliver.
Like many smugglers of the 1700's, John Olliver was said to use the sails of his windmill to allert smugglers about the wherabouts of the coast guard. This is represented through the sand-casted hands of the windmill.
This process took around two months, one of which I was completing a seperate ceramics project.
In my first year I created a copper Chatalain based on folklore.
A chatalaine was used by the Lady of the House in most of history. Commonly holding from scissors to coin purses, snuff boxes to keys, everything a lady needed was found at her waist. My version is a fun twist, built for a lady whos warding off the fae. Equppied with bells to alert, a iron knife to protect, salt to guard and name to control, this victorian woman will never have trouble with the fae again.
These bat wings are built from steal rods riveted to articulate as a true bats wing does.