Hi
Red Pear Puppets with Suseela, Amanda controlling the rods and characters and Lynne narrating the story were all set up and aided by Eli at the camera filming as well as shifting scenery.
We all had a lot of fun and the event passed smoothly with a real buzz downstairs as well as upstairs in
One Tree Books.
A film to follow soon…and watch this space for news of next performance..very exciting!!..possibly with ukele on my knee….plinky plink plink….
29th October 2011
Well…puppets have been firmly shut in their basket for a while now but the tapping and scratching to let them out is getting too hard to continue to ignore..and I’m soft hearted..still hesitating to put a mouse trap even though the basket in the kitchen with a wooden biscuit barrel had a hole gnawed in it..
So, as soon as work allows I’ll will sieze the day and pick up the conversation with the little people where it left off…songs to sort out, puppets to make..script to finish…brilliant way to spend a summer!!!
For the coming performances of Woo Looses her Smile I am busy researching making a few animal puppets. So if anyone has any tips on making a cow, an owl and a dove..I’d be pleased to hear them.
Could be hand glove puppets or indeed any 3dimensional interpretation.
Lxx
Had so much fun writing the lyrics whilst VM strummed away making wonderful tunes. Watch out Rice and Lloyd Webber..Mount and Fornieles are snapping at your heels…
First cut a long enough length of small gauge wire to bend into an armature
Once the wire has been snipped and bent into shape remembering that proportionally the hand reaches from your puppet head’s chin up to above the brows then you’re ready to start applying the clay.
I used pinchers to get rid of the loops on the ends but maybe for an E.T. type creation they could be useful.
My first attempts at making a handIt is really helpful to have the wire sub-structure. It makes it possible to bend the fingers into realistic poses and to get the proportion of the lengths of the different digits correct.I hope it's not too big for the head.
Gradually building up the layers of clay is quite tricky but as it dries out a little it becomes possible to score the clay and put wrinkles and creases onto the surface. Lord knows how I am going to make the clay wall fit around all of these separate fingers. I’ll show that in the next blog..if it works!!
As you can see I have been having a go at painting the face..using acrylics means it has a tendency to form a skin which then rubs into little balls as you put a fresh coat on so maybe I will resort to putting a thin layer of prosthetic glue as matt did with the sponge heads.
Bought the modelling clay now just need to make a hand shaped armature and sculpt some hands with nice chiselled fingers…Can’t wait!
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