Take a look at Professor Litmus Lenticular III’s photoset of wonderful zany shadow puppet characters.
Category Archive for 'creatures'
A little heffalump
Posted in creatures, make, portfolio, props, puppetry, puppets, sculpture, theatre on Jan 24th, 2008
I’m starting to get fond of the little elephant that I have been making over the last few days. That’s always a good sign.
He can do tricks! And now has cool trunk to look down modestly while trying to pretend he isn’t a Brave and Clever Elephant.
I have to set him aside to finish in […]
Warhorse: in pictures
Posted in creatures, make, puppetry, puppets, review, theatre on Jan 21st, 2008
Warhorse, showing at the National Theatre in London, has some absolutely stunning life-size horse puppets, designed and made by Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler from the South African Handspring Puppet Company.
Made of cane and gauze, plywood and bicycle brake-cable, nylon cord and leather, they are moved from the inside by actors, who can clearly be […]
Hairy-handed gent who ran amuck in Kent
Posted in creatures, make, mask, puppetry, puppets, tutorial on Nov 4th, 2007
Missmonster at Instructables details how she made her fabulous, scary and very furry werewolf costume. This photo is pre-fur!
(via Puppetbuilding.com)
Kicking up my heels
Posted in art, creatures, fun, illustration, make on Aug 30th, 2007
Playing around after discovering the wonderful drawings of Jim Woodring.
Crow time
Posted in creatures, miscellaneous on Aug 20th, 2007
A crow was casting a hopeful eye at our ducks yesterday, and said I thought it was too early for it to be expecting any eggs yet, with spring still some weeks away. This morning, there was the first egg of the season. Crows are most amazing! I brought the egg inside and then managed […]
Cool cuttlefish and blenny puppets
Posted in craft, creatures, design, make, puppetry, puppets on Aug 15th, 2007
Raggy Rat has made a couple of beautiful marine-themed puppets for Portland’s Seafest: a cuttlefish and a tompot blenny.
There are some great photos and commentary on the making process here. I love the mixing of different types of fabric, and the wool in particular reminds me of Mimi’s use of wools. I’m looking forward to […]
Les Machines de l’île de Nantes
Posted in creatures, puppetry, puppets, sculpture on Jul 3rd, 2007
Thanks to Darthbob from Laprise.org who recently alerted me to a new project related to Royal de Luxe, Les Machines de l’île de Nantes, which opened over this last weekend.
Planned as a new artistic, cultural and tourist venture, and part of an urban renewal of the docklands, it consists of numerous large mechanical creatures to […]
Backyard creatures
Posted in creatures, fun, pareidolia on Jun 16th, 2007
Yesterday morning I looked out to find 18 king parrots in my garden! There were also a trio of young crimson rosellas, and a pair of eastern rosellas. At first they were in a tree, looking like bright red decorations. This is a king and an eastern (smaller):
Today there was a strange animal nosing around […]
John Cox: How to make a monster
Posted in creatures, make, puppetry, puppets, sculpture, video on Jun 6th, 2007
John Cox’s exhibition How to Make a Monster has been travelling around Australia for some time now, and at present it’s at the Scienceworks Museum in Melbourne until mid July. John’s work became known with his making of the animal cast in Babe, but he has since been involved in many movies, including Crocodile Dundee […]