Tools

You need to use Friday to purchase necessary tools for the first project and you are
strongly advised to ensure that they are colour coded in some way for ease of
identification. You will need the following tools to begin with:

• Dividers
• Scribe
• Centre punch
• Steel rule
• Engineer’s square (optional)
• Piercing saw frame
• Saw blades
• Drill bits
• Emery paper and buff sticks
• Hand file
• Needle files

Phew! I’ve still got them from my first two years of uni. 

In readiness for Tuesday you will need to collect visual images to inspire the design
for a Puppet using one of the following themes:

• The human being
• Animals
• Insects
• Flowers
• Aliens

These can be in the form of magazine cuttings, photocopies, Internet research,
photographs, sketches etc. The images should be selective and provide you with
shape, form, and detail from which you can develop a character with interesting
features and personality. Bring these with you on Monday along with a sketchbook,
pencils and coloured media of some description. You will begin to create a mood
board based on your chosen theme, which will provide design inspiration for the first
project. The inspirational mood board should not be smaller than A2 and should be
displayed in the studio.

Was given this project on Friday, worked on Saturday. Even if Saturday was free I think I’d still be lost for inspiration. I’m definitely ruling out aliens as a source of inspiration – I’m narrow-minded like that. Now, if only I had a magic 8 ball…