Main Project, Plan B, Week 3

Dressing 2nd Puppet and Props

Wrapping the puppet of Julka

Patching parts of cheeks around mouth with masking tape. Clothes made from old duvet sheet. Handstitched with some help from superglue on the detail

 Mixing paint for the skin

 Again using a see through pot to ensure all paint is mixed in well in latex

 Latexed puppet with added bits of blush on cheeks and lips.

 Latex covered hands and legs. The puppet does not have toes as it does not need it in the film.

Mixing yellow felting wool with coffee stained gardening rope to create a soft hair effect.

After having a few days to look at the bedsheet I hand painted, I decided that it looked dull and did not go with the theme well enough. So I tried dying piece of old white cotton duvet sheet with natural dye from turmeric, coffee, and paprika ingredients that do fantastic job colouring food.

This is the mix

After first dip of the fabric, it has got a lot of paprika residue on it. 

Water after rinsing the fabric off the residue

Fast drying in the sun

Taping down thin wire to ensure control over the miniature duvet movement

The supplier I got the first LED lights from was busy with increased amount of orders and with my LEDs and battery pack locked up in the University, I came up with a solution. To my luck, a bulb lamp fitted almost perfectly the lampshade I made earlier.

Carving a dent into a polystyrene block to be used as a bedside table, I used some insulating tape for added health and safety. 

What went well: 

• Dying the fabric, fairly uniform colour with kitchen ingredients
• Sorting out bedside lamp, the bulb is remote control operated so it can be switched on and off without moving the furniture and its intensity can be adjusted to fit each scene. So actually turned out slightly better than the first set. 

What went wrong: 

• Really, the latex layer on the puppet should be added before putting on clothes. It was difficult to apply latex on the chest while on hands the sleeves got rolled up. Also, I had to do it section by section so that latex would not drip where it is not supposed to be. 
• The dress and hair on puppet version number 1 are just more within the style of the story.