Moving into the new year

My puppets are slowly developing into print. I've got the first block drawn out ready to start working into.

While I was doing that I had some ideas for the words for the slotted tab book that I was working on before Christmas. 

The words impose a structure because they have to be revealed in the right order, but I still want the feel of meandering, not straight forward page turning, while reading it. I also want it to look like a section of maze when it is opened out.
 

This is a mock up which uses the slot and tab and the woven paper joinings that I have been exploring recently. Now I need to work on the imagery and refine the text.

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.