found a wooden CD rack, jumped on it a little, broke it up a bit, and then a bit more. afterwards stitched some strongly discoloured, or should I say stained, piece of old lace - found in some gutter or other - around the wooden skeleton, then spined all the lacey ribs together with good old handy wire. that's a body, or is it a fish? or just plain old skin and bones, whatever it is it's bound to have personality - and in this case, by the looks of things, a bad one - if you give it a face, so that's exactly what I did: with big juicy bubba lips; a bit of ken doll mutilation to make some little piranha fangs; then a kind of saucy kind of scary looking one-eye I borrowed off a wonky looking rocking horse. e voila. but the pictures aren't really good enough to make him out in any kind of glory and I no longer have him in my possession, which is a shame. sad-one-eyed-fish-face @(

The ever-so-naughty Boggle and friends....

        jim (poor lad) looking forlorn as ever                  Barbara the horse (above) what a legend!

These are a few examples of the works I made for a recent commission for a great kids theatre show by Lawrence Speck called 'The Boggle'. It was emotional to let Jim and Phillip Russel leave as I had such a good time making them and grew rather attached! Admittedly it was better to see them in action and their northern farmer-ish accents really brought them to life. I spose it's like they say: if you love them let them go.

here's Lawrence as the naughty Boggle himself with one of my props and the set I co-created.

giving birth to something

just trying to sort through all of the masses of pics I have clogging up my computer and came across these from my degree work that I havn't included anywhere, looking at this face again makes me realise she actually looked a little bit like she's going for a poo, but I suppose she's supposed to be giving birth so I wasn't that far off...... :s

a bit of homemaking......

I've had so much fun putting together the cottage, if I were small enough I would definitely move in, at first I thought cardboard wouldn't be sufficient to get the details I wanted but it has really turned out better than I expected, the nature of the structure even means that it's quite strong as well.

 I think the idea is that the cottage will be lit up for parts of the show so I've tried it out with a lamp inside just to get an idea........

mr Russel and his weather beaten mush

seeing as I imagine him as a bit of a boozed up, drunken old farmer I had to apply a rosy glow to Jim's dad's face and the wiry brillow beard has finished off his rugged face nicely or kind of scarily with those wandering boss-eyes.  Poor old Philip.

Jims face

I decided to paint Jim's face white in order to repaint it, as the first attempt wasn't quite right, he looks pretty terrifying like this now though.

thats' better........

hanging out with the daffs and daydreaming, he's finally looking like a 'real boy' now