Puppet perspective portrait

Read a blog post about making my giant puppet for last year's Beltane.

 

It's designed to foreshorten a little - the head and shoulders are to a noticeably smaller scale than the buttocks and legs, to give an overall effect of towering even more than it really does.

 

Eventually I attached a human-scale mask to it, which was really a bit too small for the head; I decided to make it explicitly a mask, hung on by string, so it didn't need to be to scale, but I still rather wish I'd made it a little bigger.

 

When I took it out later for the Leith Festival, I did in fact make a bigger mask for it.

 

Here's one of the finished puppet in action.

Done