Many of you will be familiar with these characters as you’ll have received our 2019 New Year animated card. Based on the Chinese zodiac, we created a dozen animals, split each into three and set the animation rolling. It was mesmerizing to make and hopefully mesmerizing to watch.
See it, along with our other GIFs, here:
Mike used paper, pencil, pen
It's no secret that we're fans of Horniman Museum and Gardens. After a recent visit to their African Worlds Gallery, we were itching to make some masks of our own. Mike was drawn to the Nigerian Janus-faced masks, while Tanya was influenced by the Kenyan initiation masks. As you can probably tell, the aim was not to replicate - the originals were a springboard for our own ideas. All-in-all a very satisfying Saturday afternoon project, which we hope will grow (stringy) legs of its own.
Tanya used cotton sateen, silk, wool, ribbon, pen and parcel string
Legs are model's own