Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
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)
Posted in craft, make, materials, portfolio, props, sculpture, theatre, tutorial on May 31st, 2007
I loved making these two little horses recently for an up-coming theatre production, Emma’s Dynasty, by Jigsaw Theatre Company. They are based on an earthenware Chinese Han Dynasty horse that is here in the Australian National Gallery collection, but they are tiny in comparison, only 17 cm high at the head. I really like […]
I’m working on several projects at once at the moment. One is making a set of those flying ducks that people had as wall ornaments when I was growing up. I’ve been lent a couple to model from, and looking at them up close I can understand their attraction, despite their kitsch reputation. Since the […]
It’s nice to have Claire posting again at Loobylu. (Claire had a beautiful second baby girl recently - congratulations!). Her post today mentions the difficulties of making hair on dolls - I agree it is tricky, and depite the post title, I really don’t like dealing with hair at all! It jogged me to scan […]
Swazzle, a San Francisco puppetry company doing live theatre, has started up a great online presence over the last six months or so. Their puppeteers and builders are blogging individually, but also as a team:
Sean Johnson: Puppet101: puppet building
Anita Coulter: Puppet U: manipulation techniques and puppetry performance techniques
Patrick Johnson: Puppet Design: character design […]
Posted in craft, photographs, tutorial on Mar 9th, 2006
Of ‘full, woolly, activity-unfriendly thumbs’ in knitted mittens, Tanya Ewing at Moose on the Loose says ‘Quite frankly I won’t use them.’ Quite right! Tanya has the all-important recipe for how to put a flip top in your thumb on her page of knitting patterns, Homegrown recipes for woolly items, which also includes a simple […]
Posted in make, materials, puppetry, puppets, tutorial on Jan 27th, 2006
These are two simple rod puppets which were made by my son when he was about 8, at a workshop that I was involved with.
The materials were recycled bits and pieces. The basic pattern was a plastic bottle for a body; a stuffed sock for the head; cardboard tubes running through the bottle neck for […]
Posted in animation, make, materials, puppetry, puppets, tutorial on Sep 6th, 2005
Boing Boing points to Kathi Zung, a NYC maker of foam latex puppets used in animated videos and films, and in particular to her Do-it-yourself Foam Latex Puppetmaking 101 tutorial on DVD. I’d like to try something like that sometime.
This is the same technique that was used to make the Leunig Animated series that brought […]
Posted in craft, creatures, make, tutorial on Aug 19th, 2005
Manufacturing a Yellow Hound is a short online film showing the process of making this cool plaster dog sculpture. The armature is bundles of foil squished into shape and joined with masking tape. The shape is then covered with plaster bandage and painted. This elephant and bee are made the same way.
I found the yellow […]
Happened across Duct Tape Rachel, a bold photo of the process of making a self-form-fitting duct tape dressmaker’s dummy. It links to an article called Clone yourself a Fitting Assistant by David Page Coffin, which in turn shows you four ways of making your own dummy:
Duct tape dress form #1
Duct tape dress form #2
Molded papier-mâché […]