John Howe Dragon

dragon

Puppetry

I've recently been working on making some unusual puppets. Kind of more like kinetic sculptures really. They have simple faces and novel, hand-built mechanisms giving them strange, fluid movements. The puppet above has a head mounted on a spring, and wires attached. These lead to plastic rings which you put around your fingers. Pulling these tilts and turns the head in a very creepy, lifelike manner. It's great fun experimenting with this kind of puppetry.

I've also been very busy making dragons, to sell in a local shop. It's a shell shop, buy the sea, and sells unusual shells and jewellry. I have a display in the window, with little dragons coming out of shells.

mutant munny and dragons

I got a couple of munny's a while ago and made them into mutant zombie creatures.... why not? I might sell them when I get my ETSY shop up and running again. I still need to figure out how to take better pictures, this guy looks so much cooler in real life!

 

I've been trying to get a load of little dragons finished too, for a display in a local shop. I finally got them done but have been too ill to get to work on anything else! This is one of the little guys, hopefully i can get some decent shots of the display when it's up:

 

 

There are a load of tiny little dragons, this guy is about 2cm across. I've also got some cool, bigger dragons which took ages to make! If anyone wants to buy one let me know!

Cute cuddly Dragon Plushie pattern!

Here's a quirky page of plushie dragons and other characters to make. I especially like the bat, and check out this pink dragon made from the pattern on the page!