puppet head experiments

I have been looking after my brother’s pottery and gallery in Askham Cumbria for the last week and took the opportunity to make some experimental clay heads for my puppetry Artshealth MA which I am underway with at the moment. I have made many such heads with Year 9 when I was art teaching and wanted to do some playing with scale and expression to see where it takes me. Some are quite small and some larger, but all would work as glove puppets. I want to make the most successful into a string puppet. One reminded me of Francis Bacon whose work I love. Two more were based on the Edward Lear nonsense verse ‘ The Dong with the Luminouse Nose’, which my dad read to me whilst I was in the gallery.  Stuart my brother is going to fire them when he can and I will get on to the next stages once he has done that.dong with the luminous nose long face and wide facegallery puppet experiment francisdong with the luminouse nose long face and wide face diff anglemore puppet head experiments Monday going smallerpuppet head lemon mouth mondaypuppet heads all together in order I made thempuppet heads resized all