As part of the Kickstarter campaign to get our puppet company to WorldCon, I will do the occasional blog post to explain what the prizes are, or to talk about the show.
This is cross-posted from Kickstarter to talk about the $25 reward, which are hand-crafted puppet faces.
Thank you so much to those of you who have already pitched in. Since some of you have opted for the paper mask option, I thought I’d explain what exactly that will be.?
When I say paper mask, I can guess that people will imagine a flat papercraft mask. This is not that mask. I’ll be using Albrecht Roser’s paper-folding technique to create three dimensional masks with curves and defined features out of archival grade water-color paper.
Here’s a quick video showing how I draft these faces.
The main differences between what you see here and the ones I’ll be making for our backers is that I’ll be free-handing, so each mask will be unique. Of course they’ll also be reinforced on the interior instead of just held together with tape.
Gorgeous! I’m hoping for a Loki face myself…..
I think we can make that, or something, similar happen.
Brilliant!
Thanks for the pointer toward Kill Henry Sugar, too. Good stuff. I wonder – Are you familiar at all with Ollabelle and Hem? If not, you might look into them.
Thanks for the video and good luck on the campaign!
Kill Henry Sugar is one of my favorite bands. They do a great live show.
I just got the notice from Kickstarter- hurrah for the puppet show!