Art Enterprise Innovation, African Style!
A big order was received for 3 life sized African animals!
The order had to be completed in one week, ready for shipment to Canada and to make only one of these beaded animals normally takes several months to complete. So our friend decided to put a team of African artists together in order to complete the order in time.
Have a look at their work here!
Each guy had a section of an animal to complete!
Now this is what I call team work!
3 guys in action working on this big cheetah!
One guy finishing at the front and another two busy at the back!
A closer look at the intricate wire and bead work on the tail!
Look how they string the beads onto the wire.
To string thousands of beads by hand would take a very long time.
So they simply load the beads into this battery operated spinner bowl.
They stick the end of the wire into the bowl in order for the beads to run onto the wire.
Another finisher at work checking quality and fixing roughages.
The animals will be wrapped and crated for export on completion and the chief artist will travel with the animals to deliver them and to collect the payment. Really a very innovative effort and their works are fabulous to see. Some rich guy in a foreign land is going to be very happy to receive this. Imagine having life size beaded cheetahs in your visitors lounge. It was indeed great to see this clan of artists at work doing their thing!
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Finally, the air was filled by the light hearted banter of the team at work, almost as if they were constantly teasing each other and we left there in very good mood.
Considering that crime is rampant in our country, I honor these guys for using their gifts to make others happy and in the process also earning enough to feed their own families.
No entitlement, no laziness and no squabbles, only sowing the good seeds of love.
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Great art work!
Thank you my friend!
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beautifully creative @papilloncharity
Thank you my friend and glad that you liked the post!
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Looks like so much patience is needed. amazing
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Patience and skill!
An unbeatable match!
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Those are such cool pieces and so cool seeing them working together to create this piece, thats an innovative way to string beads quickly
Thank you JJ and they are really experts in creating the pieces. What I liked to see was the way that they divided the work between the team members. 3 do the body, 1 the tail, another 1 the head and 1 finisher.
And of course 2 guys to string the different colors of beads onto the wire coils. A real production operation in the field of all places.
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That’s what I was impressed with the teamwork and coordination as a team to get the job done in time
I suspect fir most places over here there would be hours or days wasted with meetings planning how to do it than the time it took those guys to actually do the job
What an amazing post ! The creations are wonderfully put together, all those beads are weaved and placed together to construct such lively animal forms !!! AMAZING !
Also I love the team work and everyone's beautiful spirit :) No squabbles, just love, and the desire to achieve something together !!! Absolutely gorgeous post, @papilloncharity! Just absolutely gorgeous <3 !!!!
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It is certainly wonderful to see the artists at work with their jolly team.
Thank you once again for the kind words and your great deeds to help.
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Wonderful work. It is amazing how art doesn’t have borders. I am a wire artist myself. I met other wire artists in Europe, Caribbean and Hawaii, never been to Africa. That beading technique is commonly used by all bead workers. What amazes me the most is the wire frames. The chief artist captured the movement of the animals, he is a true architect. Great post my friend, I really love it 😍
Thank you and oh yes, the guy is a master with the framework, as the entire figure depends on it. Great to see that you are also a wire artist and that you know the intricacies of bead work. The myriad of wild animals in Africa has inspired many wire artists and I am waiting for the day that these guys are commissioned to make a full sized elephant.
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Wow!! I have never seen anything like this before. Very cool
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Thank you and I am glad that I could show it to you!
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