Friday, December 20, 2024

Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays 

from The Painter and the Elmwood Gang!  

Saturday, November 30, 2024

Beans


 So I thought I was done with sharing a new puppet every Saturday until next year. 

But Beans felt otherwise. 

And it's a good one to share. Beans is a new puppet for series 3 of "Animal Behavior". Yup, series 3! We're still releasing the episodes of series 2, but series 3 is being written and a few new puppets are being made. 

Also Beans is a puppet based on my brother, Michael.  I've tried making puppet of him in the past, but none ever felt right. And although it's not an exact likeness, for me this is perfect. 10 year old Michael. 

Monday, November 25, 2024

Monday Song...

 


I wonder...  I have two legs, but do I have one to stand on? 
I think I do. 
As the frat boys say
Let's go!

Sunday, November 24, 2024

14

 Happy Birthday Penny!



Saturday, November 23, 2024

What, no new puppet?

 No new puppet this week...  Maybe no new puppets til next year.

Busy busy for sure though!  I bunch of puppets made just can't be shared yet!

Til later though...  Here's some random pics...















Friday, November 22, 2024

Monday, November 18, 2024

Monday Song

 

Not a huge Led Zeppelin fan to be honest.
But the past couple weeks this song has hit hard.

Saturday, November 16, 2024

Greg Gunderson

Greg...  Or is it Gary?
Mouth Puppet
This puppet is one I was building for literally years. It didn't take me years to build though. I'd start, stop, start, stop...  It would end up buried in bins and found, and so on and on. This fall I just sat at the table one day and said "Damn it. He needs to be finished."
Once done Nick saw him and immediately had a name and a story for it.  
I love when shit like that happens!

 

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Saturday, November 9, 2024

Friday, November 8, 2024

Saturday, November 2, 2024

Iggy!

"Iggy" is a style or a brand name of simple hand puppet I'm making for sale!
Check them out on Etsy!




 

Saturday, October 26, 2024

Iggy

An "IGGY"
"Iggy" is a style or a brand name of simple hand puppet I'm making for sale!
Check them out on Etsy!



 

Friday, October 25, 2024

Stalker

Marvin has been dating online... And it has gotten weird. Maybe though he has finally found a match. Maybe not...

Monday, October 21, 2024

Monday Morning Music... SON OF A BITCH!

Here's a music video Elmwood worked on this past summer!
From the awesome Ronnie Gross Jr
SON OF A BITCH (EVERYTHING'S FINE)
We had a blast on this one!

Here's some behind the scenes pics too!



















Sunday, October 20, 2024

Plan 9 From Outer Space

When I moved back to CT from Florida in September of 2002 once of the first things Russ Werlebird said to me was "When are we gonna start making puppet movies?"
And pretty much right then we started.

One of our original ideas was to do a remake of "Plan 9 From Outer Space", as we were both Ed Wood fans and thought that would be a ton of fun to do.
Then everything else happened... And it has been an amazing amount of everything else. And Elmwood Productions has made some amazing things and even collected a few awards for it.
Last year I brought up how we never did get to make Plan 9. And Alex Sims challenged me. And soon after he handed a script for a remake/tribute/parody of Plan 9.... And we spent this summer shooting it.
Yup. After 22 years Elmwood Productions has released
GRAVEYARD GIL'S MIDNITE THRILLS PRESENTS:

PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE! 

Saturday, October 19, 2024

A Happy Monster!


Here's another furry fella is now on Etsy!
Click HERE to make this monster your new roommate!


 

Saturday, October 12, 2024

Monster on Etsy!

This furry monster is now on Etsy!
Click HERE to make this monster your new roommate!






 

Friday, October 11, 2024

Saturday, October 5, 2024

Red Head Monster!

This furry madman is now on Etsy!
Click HERE to make this monster your new roommate!