• The Little Prince and The Flower

    So here is a sequence of posts with my videos for “The Little Prince” Instagram challenge earlier this year. Each scene is based on a quote fron St Exupery’s book and there are seven in all. The first is: “On the morning of his departure the little prince carefully cleaned out his active volcanoes, watered…

  • Building a Tiger

    I started with the head, based on a shape built from a cork wire (the kind that seals bubbly wine!) and built up with brown bag paper and brown paper parcel tape. Recycling is the way to go. The body is alumium wire with brass joints at shoulder and hip to attach the legs. Then…

  • Interlude: Serga’s Revenge

    On the subject of animal puppets. Here is my paper tiger in action again. After Putin’s invasion of Ukraine I made this short sequence based on the automaton “Tippu’s Revenge”. Serga was the name of a Siberian tiger that Putin used for one of his macho photo shoots a few years ago, I think he…

  • The Fox

    A beloved character. The Fox. And I decided to try working the head directly from balsa wood this time. People seemed to like him.

  • The Little Prince

    February 2023 was the planned date for another Instagram challenge; a Story Book Challenge devised by Australian illustrator/artist Monty Lee. This time I was also invited to be part of the cohosting team. The book chosen by Monty was de Saint-Exupery’s “The Little Prince” which until then I had never read. Nor had I seen…