Bernz was approached to arrange the graffiti for the Maidstone 'Peace One Day' festival to be held in Maidstone Millennium Park. He arranged for his mate Morgan to come down to do one of his complex backgrounds and naturally asked me to do a piece too.
I felt that I needed to do something a bit 'out of the ordinary' to get attention, and after consulting with my wife Nadia, I came up with a design that incorporated Darth Vader.
We had to go and buy sheets of chipboard from the local DIY superstore before we started, so we got a lift with the organiser in his people carrier down to Wickes in town.
We set up up on the slope in full view of everyone near the bandstand, and Morgan was attracting the better comments as people walked past and observed. I was taking my time trying to get the painstaking detail right. I found that I had to constantly keep stepping back and making sure that all parts of the mask were in perspective as it just didn't look right if there was the slightest inconsistency. This took ages but I was bloody determined to get it right, as it was such a familiar character to people and they'd notice any fault.
As I finished the face of Vader and started the lettering, Barry and I started getting excited about it and had a laugh pointing out our favourite bit of the piece. As I was finishing, people liked it so much that we were getting generous offers to buy it from us, but as we'd already promised it to the organiser (who was paying us) we had to let it go :-(
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