Dedication!
The two puppet makers were in my studio for over 6 hours,
to work on the final stages of their puppets.
Adding hair, hat, paint, strings, and hang on crosses.
Both these puppets came together in the end through team effort.
Beautiful.
I was in the studio on and off, and felt like a proud "Granny"
to see both puppets being walked into my house.
Their first steps into our world.
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| The finished puppets by Louise Clarke and Pascale De Coninck |
Both will add more to their work.
Louise's tree-lady, will be accompanied by a tree, of which the branches will move the puppet. Hopefully another collaboration with artist Dominic Fee.
Pascale's Puppet will be holding - and using- a bow and arrow. The mechanism to make this work, will have to be figured out after the bow and arrow are made.
But for now, these puppets are sharing their beauty, their individuality with us all.
What an amazing journey it was!
Thank you Louise, Pascale and Jackie for allowing me to be your guide.
I will write another post when the puppets are fully finished, as well as updates on Jackie's and Greg's Puppets.
The distant learning class is continuing, and alway open to new students. Contact me to hear more about this. And the next studio class is starting at the end of November. Fully booked, but if you are interested in a course during 2018. Please contact me.
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| So beautiful! |
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| Proud Mammies |
 Final touches
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| Both proud mammies brought in their 'newborns' (as Anne Palmer called them. Anne made a Japanese Dancer in my studio) to show me, while I rested on the couch. |
On another exciting note:
- The Life Outside the Box puppet film will be screened at the Together! Festival of Disability Arts in London on the 9th December. Read about it HERE
- And I have been invited to give a talk, and be part of a panel about puppetry, disability and health, at the Nottingham Puppetry Festival, in March of next year. And at the Puppet Power festival in Calgary, Canada in June. Who knows!
2 comments:
Well done Corina, you have so much wisdom and experience to share about the enchanting, transformative craft of puppet making, both on a deep personal level and as a teacher. I have gained immeasureably through your supportive, loving process, overcoming fears and difficulties, transcending all stuckness to be pretty close now to bringing my 'Johnny Toes' , who began as a lump of clay, to guitar-playing, dancing singing , long-haired life! I can't believe it. Just wait untill you see the video!
Thank you Greg,
your response bring on the goosebumps of gratitude.
Thank you. And i look forward to seeing Johny Toes play his guitar!
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