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...
View ArticleHead 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleZeus’ 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...
View ArticleZeus 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...
View ArticleShadows 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.
View ArticlePuppet 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...
View ArticleShadow 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...
View ArticleHand 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...
View ArticleWelcome 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...
View ArticleThe 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.
View ArticlePuppet 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...
View ArticleMaking 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’.
View ArticleMuppets 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...
View ArticleJohn 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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