ZA News: 2009 -2010

I was extremely fortunate to work on some sculptures for the Political satire puppet series:
Puppet Nation

Here are some of my projects from the show.

All puppets start with a design based of the cartoons of Jonathan Zapiro. Back then we simply used a grid pattern to identify slight variations of the drawings.
I would do a quarter scale maquette sculpt and the final full size head sculpt.

Sep Blatter:

 Winnie Mandela:

 Trevor Noah:

Robert Mugabe:

 Manatashe:

Vavi :

 Barak Obama:

 This must be my last maquette, I do not recall sculpting the full puppet. He turned out great!

  Will try to find the sculptor responsible and add credit here

The show is still going with a growing cast of seriously funny caricatures by talented new sculptors:

Steve Bannon:

 Will try to find the sculptor responsible and add credit here

Trump :

  Will try to find the sculptor responsible and add credit here

Ninja and Jolandi from Die Antwoord:

 Will try to find the sculptor responsible and add credit here

Watermill 2016

Another family project while visiting back in South Africa.
We decided to have a go at a fantasy themed watermill.

Quick pencil sketch design

Basic structure done with cardboard and balsa wood.

We sculpted the stonework in with some paper clay.

All the roof tiles are cut out of cardboard from cereal boxes.

Acrylic paints

Some grass and bushes sourced from a railroad model shop.