Komori Fumio – Sumie and Japanese water colour painter
Some pictures (more than I had put up already over the years) on Komori Fumio, or Komori Sensei, as he is known by, painting,
The missing pictures – a man walking by at Kamogawa, 目箱 versus 目匣, and making the female puppet bodies
As promised, the missing pictures of my progress so far: Josiane Keller “puppet heads” (2015) Josiane Keller ̶
Making the puppets of the female characters and the crane and moon on wires
If you are used to daily updates on my BLOG and wanted to know how the puppets are coming along, I have to apologize for not p
About making the puppet of the wood cutter and also about ボーカロイド™ オペラ 葵上 VOKALOID Opera Aoi
And… I’m back. Josiane Keller – 私の窓からの眺め view from my window (2015) There are cats in the ne
More stormy weather: 神坂 雪佳 Kamisaka Sekka – Whirling Snow, and 日下部金兵衛 Kusakabe Gimbei – Girl in heavy Storm
Humans struggling again ts story weather seems a popular topic in Japanese art. Snow: 神坂 雪佳 Kamisaka Sekka “Whir
Promo shot Compagnie MaMa’s
Today in the rain we had a photo session for our improv marionette comedy group “Compagnie MaMa’s” and the w
Two feet
Babysteps, but I am parallel busy with a puppetry piece of Compagnie MaMa’s… two feet: Josiane Keller “two h
One hand
Today’s output is not much so far… one hand, plus what I have already one head and a second hand… Josiane Ke
A commissioned Ukrainian cat by Жулито Токаренко (Tokarenko Julia), puppeteer ホリ ヒロシHiroshi Hori and costume based on Japanese vintage photographs by 日下部金兵衛 Kusakabe Kimbei and 小川 一眞 Ogawa Kazumasa
To start with something not directly linked to the film-in-making but still related to puppets, here a grey cat co-designed wi
Compagnie MaMa’s (2015)
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Wood for the wood-chopper’s house and a test clip wood-chopper sitting by the fire
There is more needed than characteristic fabric for the puppets’ robes. We need a scene, in fact: several. For example a
Whilst preparing a costume check also checking what the others do: Michaela Pavlátová “This Could Be Me”
Michaela Pavlatova “This Could Be Me”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEDhuXIuwlE her highly interactive homepage
Back from the high arts to… well, the Van Gogh of puppetry
New York, New York…. well, anyways, this guy here is no lesser talent than Richard, and amazes me over and over again: M
Tokiwa eki, looking towards Kameoka (2015)
Older sketches manga pages, 雪女 Yuki Onna and 鶴の恩返し the crane’s gratitude
The topic is on my mind since… at least 5 years now, so I made other work earlier to the topic: Josiane Keller “Yu
First character design, costume sketches and earlier inspirations and sketches
The story has three main characters: Yuki, Tsuru and the young wood-chopper. Starting with some fabric tests, here a farm-girl