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Zeus’s head No 2 and his right hand.

Zeus’s head carved from polystyrene and covered in paper mache. Yesterday I applied paper mache the two parts of Zeus’s head I had carved previously from polystyrene (Check out earlier post ‘Carving...

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Head Production Line

All these heads are for our Greek Myths productions. They started life in my sketch book and when I was happy with what they would look like I carved them all from recycled polystyrene. This decision...

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The Progress of Zeus

Zeus now has some colour in his cheeks, strong shoulders and a healthy beard. Okay, so following on from the Carving Zeus’ Head posts here is a quick explaination of the stages involved in getting Zeus...

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Zeus’ Right Hand

It’s been a couple of weeks since my last post and Zeus is now fully functional and is being used in performance. There are a number of stages in the production of the puppet to document so I will...

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Zeus Completed.(no sandals yet)

The arm sections were joined together by cutting slits into the polystyrene sections and using pieces of fleece fabric as the hinges, glued in place with PVA mixed with sawdust (very strong adhesive...

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Shadows Under the Banyan Tree

Our friend Becca is out in India working with Traditional Hindu Shadow Puppets. Check out what she’s up too. Shadows Under the Banyan Tree.

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Puppet Place membership

Reblogged from Becca Rose: You too can get your talented mits onto one of these bad boys. An all new woodon-faced-ventriloquy-singing and shiny-big-yellow-bird-style-dancing Puppet Place membership...

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Shadow Puppets Fun at ZionBristol

Building Shadow Puppets is such a great way for families to have fun together. Very simply and in a minimal amount of time beautiful results can be achieved that enthral children and adults alike. In...

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Hand Puppet Shows are Childs Play?

Ancient Greece Kids love hand puppet shows, though all to often they seem to not be done very well. Why? Performing hand puppetry is hard. Honestly, though it is regarded as a simple form of childs...

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Welcome to Ancient Greece Cori.

Welcome to ancient Greece The Tongue in cheek performances I am working on consist at the moment of lots of little sections. Some need more work than others, some probably need to be chucked away. You...

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A new top hat.

There is a devil sat on my new top hat and I’ve only just made it.

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The Pied Piper of Hamlin

Making a top hat while listening to the Tiger Lillies Shockheaded Peter has given me an inspiration for a new show. Time to learn to play the Penny Whistle.

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Puppet Show at Zion Art Space

I’m really excited to be performing my new puppet show ‘The Creation of Spring’ in Zion Community Art Space, Bristol this coming Saturday 13th July at 2.30pm. The show tells a collection of stories...

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How To Hack Your Trash aka Instant Puppets

How To Hack Your Trash aka Instant Puppets.

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Building a Sarcophagus.

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Building a Sarcophagus 2

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Building a Sarcophagus 3

My daughter Tula is the pianist.

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Making a Sarcophagus 4

Today my daughter Tula is helping to paint heiroglyphics onto the Sarcophagus.  If you check out the post ‘making a Sarcophagus 3′ you will see why we chose to write ‘boo’.

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Muppets Die Hard

Before Christmas I had the pleasure of making some characters from the Muppets for a stage version of the film ‘Die Hard’ that was being put on at the Wardrobe Theatre in Bristol. They were done in two...

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John Cabot Puppet

Finishing it on time ended with a very late night. I was asked to make a puppet version of the statue of the Italian explorer John Cabot that sits outside the Arnolfini on Bristol harbour side by my...

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