AFTER A busy day at work, the last thing a lot of us would want to is yet more work, but for a doctor from Newport it wasn’t a chore to be part of the SuperDragons 2 project.

Gemma Williams, 30, from Bassaleg, who spends her working week at a hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, has created two dragons for this year’s trail; the Pennydragon and Firestarter.

While she admits the creations took a lot longer than she expected, she felt it had been a fun thing to do outside work and joked “It got me out of a lot of dish washing duty!”

The former Bassaleg school pupil said she enjoyed the 2010 dragons and was keen to be involved this time. So, after having her designs accepted, she said: “I had a week’s annual leave so one night I just started sticking 1ps on the dragon.”

The Pennydragon, who resides at the Newport Centre, is in fact covered in around £115 worth of 1p pieces.

“They are in different conditions which gives a nice change in colour and I wanted them to look like scales,” Dr Williams says.

Her other creation, Firestarter, is also great fun.

The punk rock dragon has an electric pink mohican hair-do as well as being covered in silver studs on its jacket.

Dr Williams, said: “It’s not really my kind of music but I just thought it would be fun. Other artists in the Dragon’s Den (the workshop in John Frost square) would come up to me and say ‘Ah, you put The Ramones on there’ but they aren’t really my music.

“It was fun to make, although I think the people in the shop thought I was mad buying 20 scrubbing brushes to make its hair!”