Kevin Pittman and his Forest Friends

My holiday / winter wood sculpture yard art project: a reindeer (based on a photograph of a real reindeer):



And, a gift for my parents, a wooden covered bridge to go with their Christmas train set:

Over the winter, I worked on an outdoor art project to liven up my front yard and send a positive message to my neighbors and visitors to my neighborhood:



Learn more about the art project and see additional pictures.

It's been a while since I debuted a brand new character, but after months of hard work I'm thrilled to introduce Roopert the Kangaroo:



Roopert represents a new direction for me, for while he's as large as many of my costume-puppet creations, but he's not a costume-puppet. He's a special style of oversized mouth-and-live-arm puppet inspired loosely by the animal characters in the Lion King Broadway show.

I'm hoping to develop a scripted performance around Roopert next year, but in the meantime he's available for general walk-around meet-and-greet. If you'd like Roopert to appear at your next event, he'd be more than happy to hop on by.

Please watch and help if you can:

Becky's Kidney Video (Featuring Leslie Carrara-Rudolph)

Visit Becky's Website for more information on how you can help.

At long last, I can finally debut the official blog for Kevin Pittman and his Forest Friends. My name is Sheldon, and I will be the official spokesfox for Kevin and all of the Forest Friends here on this blog.

What can you expect to find here in the future? Well, I'll be letting you know about some of Kevin's adventures in the magical world of puppetry, reporting on some of his big performances, sharing tips and tricks about puppeteering and puppet building, and relaying puppetry news of interest to anyone living in metro Atlanta or anywhere in the southeastern United States for that matter.

Please feel free to share links to these posts (there's a "permalink" for every post listed at the bottom of the post to make sharing easy). However, please be respectful of our copyright in our posts and don't copy them to other places without Kevin's explicit permission. If you'd like to request permission to re-post something, just use our handy Contact Form to get in touch with him. No permission is needed to re-post general puppetry event announcements, BTW - feel free to copy and re-post them anywhere you'd like!