I saw an awesome puppeteer at a Ren Faire down is Sarasota, Florida years ago. He was a tall, slim guy who really put his dragon marionette through its paces.

I wonder what ever happened to that guy...

 

Ron G.

I'm in LOVE with that Dragon....superb job Shawn as always and thanks for linking us Ron!!!

Aloha,
Nikole

That dragon was the result of the combined efforts of Richard Taker and myself. His body was a combination of fiberglass and paper mach'e which I would not recommend doing.   I do love him and he hangs here behind me in my office.

I've always loved that photo.

I wish I had brought a camera with me when we went to Sarasota, but considering all of the time I spent studying photography I'm really bad at remembering to bring one along when I travel. I actually remembered the last time we visited my dad in Florida, and then it sat in my suitcase the whole time.

 

Ron G.


Edited to add:

PS
I wanted to mention a couple of previous discussions that we've had here relating to puppets and renaissance faires...

http://puppetsandstuff.com/community/index.php/topic,1055.0.html

http://puppetsandstuff.com/community/index.php/topic,511.0.html


PPS
If you make a puppet for a ren faire in Wisconson, I nominate a talking cheese puppet. That oughta tickle the cheddarheads in the crowd.

That is a great picture and puppet, it looks like the production had a lot of action in it, Shawn?

Thanks for reposting it for us all.......

Daryl H