My favourite things

 The art society has set a theme of 'my favourite things' as something positive for members to work on over this strange Christmas period.

As books and narrative have always been one of my favourite things. I thought about using fairytale characters and situations as my subject matter

Theatre, both to watch and to take part in (strictly backstage only) is another of my favourite things and I've also been enjoying experimenting with making puppets recently.

I think I'll enjoy the combination of theatre, puppets and fairy tales

 As a starting point I made some flat articulated figures to play with.

 

Slot and tab

 My slot and tab experiments have developed into this.

I painted the papers dark blues, greens and purples on one side and put the complementary colour on the reverse.

It folds up reasonably well if you know the order to do it in.

Whilst I was making it I had an idea  for a book. But I'll need to alter the colour scheme and make the folding more intuitive.

 

While I mull over the words the book needs I think I'll take a break and play with puppets.

Cutting and playing

I've been getting carried away with slot and tab construction.

From this 

To this

And playing with basic puppet construction

hopefully leading to drawings, and then to print.