#puppet construction

[hopeisforpresidents-blog]

Puppet heads for my most recent project. Can’t really post photos further along because it’s a SECRET PROJECT I cannot disclose juuuuuust yet.

[danydarkly]

Progress pictures of each of the puppets featured in my thesis film, “Misplaced.” The sock monster was the hardest to construct “orz

[ignitelimelight]

My autistic enthusiasm and my gay audacity now has me constructing sock puppets (much more complicated than it sounds) for the show i'm in, and I'm in love with one of them. She's a blue fuzzy sock with bright red yarn hair, a flapping tongue, angry eyes with corduroy lids, and a big ol snout with snot dripping from it. When I whip her hair around it flops over one eye all emo-like. I adore her.

[ignitelimelight]

My autistic enthusiasm and my gay audacity now has me constructing sock puppets (much more complicated than it sounds) for the show i'm in, and I'm in love with one of them. She's a blue fuzzy sock with bright red yarn hair, a flapping tongue, angry eyes with corduroy lids, and a big ol snout with snot dripping from it. When I whip her hair around it flops over one eye all emo-like. I adore her.

[world-of-puppets]

Puppets (1940)

A short news reel clip of puppeteer Robert Whiting building and prefoarming hand puppet versions of Charles Laughton, Greta Garbo, Wallace Beery, Aubrey Smith and other famous personalities of the time.

[hardysunitex]

THE MONKEY PRINCE: about as complete as he’s gonna get.

the monkey prince puppet now has arms that have been constructed by toby - the forearms are paper-mache on sticks of dowel to act as rods extending past the ‘elbow’, while the upper arms are fabric covered in raffia.

pictured with the crown he’ll eventually take from the evil king.

[hardysunitex]

THE WATER DEMON: now with a ‘body’.

toby’s been handling dying both grass and a large sheet of fabric green on his own, but i joined him to do the classic looping of raffia onto rope and then we had to figure how to attach the raffia to the fabric and then the fabric to the dome. the grass-skirts of raffia-on-rope have been safety-pinned to the fabric with allowance left for overlap and then the fabric has been aggressively duct-taped and stapled to the inside of the dome, as we’ve been lacking in really strong adhesives.

the water demon is pretty much done!

[hardysunitex]

minor edits...

of course, monkey royalty needs a crown. first image: toby with the monkey head before he had a torso with a placeholder crown made of paper - we’re both pretty solid on wanting the crown to be long and tall, where the wild things are style. second image: the cardboard crown, as created by toby, who was initially unhappy with it. third image: the monkey with torso and collar of raffia, with the cardboard crown now with a modified paint job to make it match a little more with the way i have been painting the various masks/puppet pieces i have made on my own.