pictures of puppet camp

one of my partners in puppet procession, dona, just sent these images of me there. i will need to fill in others later, but you get a little sense of how our monk, yes, came to be.

our teachers made this all very easy by laying out a clear process, organizing and preparing all the materials, and guiding us every step of the way.

we began with our concepts in group. the group i was in rocked. we worked hard together, shared a vision and pursued it. we had some sketches and began by sculpting the head in clay on an armature they had made. we then covered it with plastic wrap. and paper mached in three coats. that is the first picture here. we then peeled the dried paper head off the mold and cut it in half. after reassembling it, marrying the two halves together, we painted it. you can see how the painting went. this was trickier than it looks because we worked with a very limited palette -- it was composed chiefly of the oops gallons of paint that sophia and alex buy cheaply and routinely at paint stores. so we had to mix and blend quite a lot. then we accessorized ... eyes and later, lashes. we also built the armature for the pole and the hands separately, earlier. then we tried the monk out on the pole with the tongue and dressing to see what it might look like. we preened a little further before the procession around the campus.

but, i hope you get the general idea. i wish that i had a small movie of the tongue licking and kissing and blessing people. but you can use your imagination.