The fleece covering on the puppet (by the way, the color is PERFECT for this particular character) has smoothed out the details and have made them "pop" exactly as I imagined they would (whew!). Eventually, I'll pick the seams so they will be fairly hard to see. As you can see in the first image, I am starting to size and fit the facial features. One thing I really wanted to do with this puppet is have glow in the dark eyes. I consider myself a hoarder of spray paint, so it was only natural that I grabbed a glow-in-the-dark can to see how it would work on my eyes. Turns out it works pretty well! Things are moving along quickly, so keep an eye out for updates!
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I recently started my next project, which is based off of one of my favorite things. However, I'm not going to reveal what that favorite thing is until the end (though there will be plenty of hints). For this project, I needed there to be some more complex shapes happening on the face of the puppet. All these shapes will eventually be covered by fleece. However, one of the shapes, the nose, needed to be a little more sturdy than the foam I usually use (I didn't want it to lose form when I covered the head with the fleece). So, my 15 month old daughter unknowingly sacrificed one of her foam building blocks! It was the perfect density for structure as well as flexible should it fall or things like that.
The coat is finally finished (look for full pictures of Professor Tinwhistle soon). It was an interesting process, learning how to make my own costume pieces (I should have done a step by step for creating the fez, sorry). After I had successfully created a test coat, I started on the real thing. I had bought some thin, purple velvet-like material for Tinwhistle, as I wanted him to seem higher class than what the other characters are used to. However, it was a bit plain-jane for me, so I created my own repeatable pattern to transfer to the material. The pattern includes a beetle since Tinwhistle appears to be from the golden age of Egyptian exploration. There are definitely some aspects of the coat that need improving; something I'm sure I will get better at with time. However, I am very pleased with the outcome, and the overall look it gives the character.
Summer used to be slow, lazy, and relaxing. Well not anymore! I have never felt so "go, go, go" in my life. In any case, a lot has been happening. Professor (Dr.) Tinwhistle is complete... if you don't count his costume. I am working on it (still working on the pattern with test material), but because I have never made any clothes before it is a little slow going. I also had to stop in the middle of making his costume because we put on a "Puppet Building Camp." My family and I made over 4o puppet bodies in 1 week! It was insane but turned out to be a really fun day!
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