Drawing Tuesday - Museum of Childhood

Despite our fears about the noise level at the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood (it has a terrible acoustic, and there are often excited school groups), it was somehow ok - and the sun was shining.

Janet B had a foray into architecture with a Georgian doll's house

Sue was struck by the mold for a doll's head, and some other molded items

Joyce found two Inuit dolls in sealskin and fur clothing, collected about 1910

Carol's pull-toys - the wooden duck and furry Wilfred -

If you're wondering where Pip and Squeak are ... here they are at home, in a 1922 newsreel -

Janet K's puppet has a touch of the Josephine Baker about her -

A bear with a balalaika, found by Jo - the bear is plush, the instrument is cardboard -

 I love the cat chair by Gerard Rigot, and still can't figure out how to get the head right -

Here it is from another angle -

 Beyond is a partial view of the rest of the case ...

... which included a glamorous lady riding a blue lion with red legs, and two comic puppets in striped jumpers (I had intended to paint them during the week, but...) -

Sculpture by Sam Smith (1973), and burglar puppets by Mary Bligh-Bond (aka Maria Saunders) (1946)

Technique of the week - using a jigsaw for drawing, as Carol has done for the godly play materials she uses in her work -