Lagooned 2008

A Conch, a Starfish and a Tiki
What I did on my winter break from College






my co-director asked for a tiki for the play and Maddie was home for a month over winter break. I asked her if she could do it and she designed one. Puck helped her figure out a superstructure for it, but the rest was all hers. She put in many many hours carving Styrofoam and molding chicken wire and fabric mache. Not too shabby for a freshman.

I asked if she could make a starfish out of some papier mache I had and she said she could do it easier out of chicken wire. I said fine, but could she make a conch. She took up the challenge and molded one out of wire. She did it too quickly for me to get a picture of her progress on that, but I did get the finished project. They both will get added to the dunes Puck is building for the show.

The tiki I was able to get pretty good progress pics on and you can see how it came to be. We are very proud of her and it looks like the local library will make a home for it.

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Tiki Designed and started






Here is the base skeleton of the Tiki. Maddie carved the face out of foam and covered the skeleton with chicken wire. She really has a gift for chickenwire

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What I did on my Winter Break from College






Progression of the Tiki... base painting before the detailing

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What I did on my Winter Break from College






Progression of the Tiki... base painting before the detailing

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Maddie's Tiki







progress on the hands and dry brushing on the tiki

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Maddie's Tiki







Maddie had to paint most of the Tiki before she made the hands because of the skull staff. She didn't want to have to paint underneath it. It was an interesting process although she seemed to have it all thought out whenever I asked her about it.

By the way the Tiki is wearing rib bones that I boiled down after a meal we had downtown using a gift certificate that Puck had gotten from the cast of the King and I Weird huh?

The skull I got for half price at Goodwill after Halloween.

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The finishing touches. Maddie is working. She finished it two days before she had to go back to college.. It is pretty awesome

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Here is the Tiki all finished and waiting in the scene shop for it's debut. We think the library will give it a home after the play which is a good thing although we will probably have to glue the skull staff in place. they also want us to do some kind of write up about it

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The wonderful trunk Puck built for the pirates






Puck built this wonderful trunk to use in the play. We needed someplace to hide a small piece of booty. It is a blingy piece of costume jewelry that I jazzed up with additional rhinestone pieces. Usually when we do a show he likes to have the cast sign the back of a flat for a memory, but this show only has sand dunes so he left the inside bottom of the chest raw wood so the cast and crew could sign it