These two bags are theatre props I made yesterday. They still need some handles and some special things happening inside them, but I am pleased with how they are coming on. There is some relief, too, as I had intended to buy a couple of bags and modify them, but couldn’t find any that were [...]
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All the wild little horses
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 [...]
Simple rods puppets from recycled materials
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 [...]
Foam Latex Puppetmaking Tutorial
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ronnie Burkett’s Paper Mache Recipes and other things
Posted in craft, make, materials, portfolio, sculpture on Jul 14th, 2005
Having seen Ronnie Burkett’s amazing Tinka’s New Dress in its last season at the Melbourne Festival in 2002, and heard him speak so inspiringly at the Puppetry Summit there at the same time, I was interested to see Burkett’s article on paper mache (via Puppetry News and Views).
The article talks about recipes for making [...]
Foam construction puppet tutorial at Bear Town
Posted in make, puppetry, puppets, tutorial on Jun 4th, 2005
I’ve been enjoying PuppetVision Blog for a while now. Based in Toronto, Canada, it casts its net much wider, and looks at video and film puppetry.
PuppetVision’s blogger, Andrew, is also creating Bear Town, a web-based puppetry project. Part of the ‘behind the scenes’ information there is a step-by-step series of articles documenting the making of [...]