Puppet Challenge parts 9 and 10, plus mural restoration.

Firstly here are the links to  parts 9 and 10 of the Puppet Challenge, the art still keeps on coming, each one so original, the artists so varied. http://clivehicksjenkins.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/the-puppet-challenge-part-10-phil-stephanie-anna-charlotte-and-janet/ http://clivehicksjenkins.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/the-puppet-challenge-part-9-shellie-leonard-and-the-unknown-claire/ The rest of this blog is going to be rather disjointed, but it’s about our daily lives, so it’s bound to be so. A friend…

The Puppet Challenge, parts 7 and 8. Plus a few fungi.

Parts 7 and 8 of the Puppet Challenge Exhibition are as follows: 6 more puppets to delight and amuse! http://clivehicksjenkins.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/the-puppet-challenge-part-7-graham-caroline-and-scott/ http://clivehicksjenkins.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/the-puppet-challenge-part-8-lynne-graeme-and-anna/   We had a fair amount of rain recently, and the fungi sprang up everywhere. These are just a few I met in the forest on my daily walk with Meg. My favourites are…

The Puppet Challenge-part 6, and my first drive in the jellymould!

          Clive Hicks-Jenkins has very kindly devoted a whole post to my efforts for the Puppet Challenge Exhibition; he has edited them nicely to contain the whole conception from start to finish: from the storyboard, through the drawing stage and onward to construction and presentation. I felt compelled to create the storyboard in order to get to know the character,…

Two puppets are completed: man and goat.

I have yet to make the fountain puppet, but unfortunately it won’t be ready in time for the the June challenge. But, at least the design is there, ( see the bottom of the page). My next post will be the redrawn storyboard, with the actors playing their roles. EhBeh and Mr Lechèvre have posed for their publicity…

The puppet and the storyboard evolve

The storyboard evolves, and I have started making L’EhBehroux. He is hanging up by the kitchen window looking rather forlorn and bald headed, ( his hair is down in my studio). He watches our kitchen activities, awaiting that spark of life. At one point I laid EhBeh to rest I ditched the springs idea, because…

Puppet challenge 3

Just to revamp , I left EhBeh contemplating his reflection , in the form of a goat. So , what to do? He realises that he only has a few dark hours in which to fulfil  the conditions of these words, or he will be cursed forever, well, for the rest of his life. He…

Hooves on hips

The puppet challenge storyboard continues

just to remind you where I left EhBeh: 11. EhBeh, naked, scrambles to the mouth of the fountain. The fountain regurgitates these weirdly watery words…… 12. He reads the watery words, stands up and with his hands on hips, tosses his head in disdainful disbelief, but as he does so his head feels top-heavy and cumbersome.…