I have so much on the go right now that it's hard to concentrate. There's still two more episodes in Baron and Naomi's story coming, but I've not processed all the photos. Just a few from when he takes her to the Ruins of Lawrence's castle....
I'm also working on releasing the next group of Tutorials, and each evening I'm working on knitting warm sweater sets for all the new small dolls that arrived this year. I'm currently on the scarf for the third set, with Holly modelling them as I go....
With the nicer weather right now we are taking advantage to wash all the empty flower pots outside, so they can get stored nice and clean for next year. Of course one thing leads to another, and now we are cleaning out our garage too. So there's not the same amount of time for doll stuff right now, so everything is progressing rather slowly.
Lawrence is still playing cards with the devils in the Storyteller's 'Soldier and Death' on my dining room table. But like usual one thing led to another, and I thought I'd try post the photos in a bit of a short story sequence, as a small part of the full length folk tale, and I should make use of my old Storyteller figure, and have him telling the story, so I removed him off his base, and have him posed on my kitchen table waiting for whenever I make his set....
Lawrence is still playing cards with the devils in the Storyteller's 'Soldier and Death' on my dining room table. But like usual one thing led to another, and I thought I'd try post the photos in a bit of a short story sequence, as a small part of the full length folk tale, and I should make use of my old Storyteller figure, and have him telling the story, so I removed him off his base, and have him posed on my kitchen table waiting for whenever I make his set....
I made him way back in the 90's, inspired by Jim Henson's Storyteller series. The old Storyteller was played by John Hurt with heavy prosthetics, and his dog was a puppet performed by Brian Henson. The Storyteller's coat is one of my most elaborate costume pieces. His old, worn and dirty quilted coat is made up of hundreds of tiny pieced fabric scraps, with many sections duplicating the patterns in the actual one worn by the Storyteller in the series.
Anyways, my Storyteller has never been nicely photographed, so I thought I'd remove him from his rigid stand, so he can sit and tell the story of 'the Soldier and Death' to his dog in a proper interior setting. I'm looking forwards to the challenge of recreating the right look and atmosphere of the real setting. But first I need to finish photographing Lawrence as the Soldier, as he defeats all the devils at cards. I'm loving how the photos are turning out....
Anyways, my Storyteller has never been nicely photographed, so I thought I'd remove him from his rigid stand, so he can sit and tell the story of 'the Soldier and Death' to his dog in a proper interior setting. I'm looking forwards to the challenge of recreating the right look and atmosphere of the real setting. But first I need to finish photographing Lawrence as the Soldier, as he defeats all the devils at cards. I'm loving how the photos are turning out....
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