• Pippi and Mr Nilsson

    I still have work to do on Pippi. Her lovely shoes didn’t work with magnets. Here she is in her bare “feet”.

  • Pippi and the Monkey

    Pippi’s armature and head: aluminium wire, polymorph and polymer clay (hands and head). Armature for Mr Nilsson the Monkey. Without a head.

  • Finding a challenge

    I work best with some kind of challenge. (I have been drifting – perhaps stuck!) There are lots of challenges on Instagram and I felt the pull of a Pippi Longstocking theme for the first week of August. I will try to animate one of the daily prompts but for now I will just see…

  • Moving On

    I have an image in mind and am starting to make some new wire puppets. I am not good at doing things the “right” way – which is to draw the character design first. This process sometimes stunts my exploration and I seem to do better by playing with stuff, instead of Pencil & Paper.…

  • Stand With Ukraine