Little Steve

Now he's gonna be a marionette, the newest character Little Steve. He's a singer, a guitarplayer, a bit older, will grow a grey beard....

Our new project is going to be made totaly out of reclaimed matarials like plastic packings and bottles, old clothes and other things we will rescue from the bin... ...all these things will tribute to his character!

There used to be some salty goodies in here.. Some cutting and some glue..

There used to be ping-pong balls in here.. So...using the ping-pong balls packing to hold his future eyes...

....and a head is getting some shape..Still, just a tranparant shape.

Using a hotglue pistol........makes is easy to build layers.

The packing of a little ledlight...No face without a nose!

...so that's a nose...and until now only re-used materials give the little fellow a profile. The lid fits in the bottum...making a mouth.

A big mouth...I guess he's gonna be a singer to

Now...we use the ping-pong balls as eyes

Just trying out the right place for his eyes...so he can sleep...

............................................and be awake..............................

Mouth open......mouth shut. Some more shaping with whatever lays around..

Giving him a basecoat, so other materials will stick....

On the operation table he'll get his first skinlayer...

Giving him a few more coats of plaster and paint...He seems te become a happy guy!

Putting his eyelids on............

Each eye has its own movement.... because he asked for it (something to do with girls passing by)

Now this is an old sock, and it's just getting one cut...to make a cap, together with just a piece of cardboard. His ears are getting shape to.....

All the strings are comming out of his cap....

Soon he's gonna grow a beard...and get some healty colour on his skin. We leave his head to dry, rest and think....It's time for a body.

Now this is a 5 liter waterbottle...The bottom is cut out and molded up side down back...

...but under an angle...so he's getting a bit af a but. Now there's room to place his upperlegs.

Found some aluminium tubes that came frome a showercurtain......and cut the in half under 45°

Using some cord and tape..and moulded them together again.

Put some old Tube-isolation around it....and Little Steve got his legs.

His knees are supported with....some of the strechfabric.....

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..to secure the distance and keep the knees flexible

A little peace of wood, moulded between his legs makes it a bit stronger. For now it's just a plastic 5-liter waterbottle on legs.

Just 2 - one liter - plastic bottles....from wich we cut of....

...the tops like this......so they will combine easy.

Just some old bolt...connected to..the screw-top of the "bodybottle".....

......and that gives Little Steve....his schoulders.

Well, hands! He needs some hands to play guitar...

Some electic parts that were laying around......wil be converted into his hands.

Now its just a matter of sculpting......around the steelwire.

...left and right.....with different functions.

So...I cut it of, before the old watercooker got its perminent place at the recyclingplant. It didn't matter, it wasn't that hotheaded anymore lately....

Stripping........and covering the wire...giving the fingers some shape.

Leftover self-adhesive isolationfoam is great......to fill up the missing parts.

Some tape.........did the rest.

The same strechfabric from Little Steve's head....

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Although very difficult to stitch together......after some (°-°) & (°<>°) and (^±^).....the result is OK.

..maybe I'll paint them, maybe not.....

Now, how simple can it be.... Just the cardboard package inserts of some shoes...

and some pieces of old plywood....make perfect shoes for Little Steve.

Thanks to Lena Selway, who came up with the idea, Little Steve has got real boots for walking...Just some black paint...

and I guess that's all.......I will do.

Now the body is compleet.......and after many suggestions, I decided to leave the hands as they are, and will not paint them.

Some kids jeans saved from getting in the bin, by a friend.......and a shirt donated by a secondhand shop in Tomar...

....with some ajustments, cutting and sewing, Little Steve is dressed. After two weeks of growing a beard, I'll gues it's time for a barbershop visit.

It took so many wool.... that the sweater my wife is knitting........is gonna miss some sleeves.....

Fidel Castro could be jalous.......

After sorting out a few problems with the controles....Little "String Sick" Steve came alive!

Little Steve got his first reward for performing at the Art & Creative week in Aboboreiras.... He's Proud as....