Hansel & Gretel: A Witch Named Mrs. Hazel

The witch! She came together bit by creepy bit ...

Here she is, naked and blind. You can see her hair pretty well in this picture.

Then came the hat and some strange eyes. She looks almost cheerful here:

Finally, some clothes. Looks like she might have bought this as a "ruffled peasant top" in 1994.
Note the black fingernails -- a late-night detail, added when I should have gone to bed. What you can't see is a little pink crinoline underneath the grey -- which the cat loves to chew on.

Hansel & Gretel: A Skunk Named Rocco

Another denizen of the forest. The children help him turn over a stump to reveal delicious grubs!

Some in-process shots:

Hansel & Gretel: A Frog Named Jacques

I've been working on puppets for a somewhat-improvised kids' show version of Hansel & Gretel. We've re-worked the story somewhat so the children go into the woods of their own accord to look for food and meet a variety of animals along the way, who offer their own particular (unappealing) foods. This is a frog they encounter in a particularly swampy bit of the forest who catches them some flies. The tongue is rigged so it pulls out of his throat, revealing three "flies"

attached with elastic thread.

In process: