On January 21, Page Presents featured Zoom Upstream, by Tim Wynne-Jones and illustrated by Eric Beddows.
I projected images from the book as I read the story (with additional commentary provided by my puppet, Zoom!).
In the final book of the Zoom Trilogy, Zoom finds himself in an Egyptian tomb witnessing mysterious ceremonies conducted among cat mummies and monumental cat statuary.
Accompanied by his magical friend, Maria, he is hot on the trail of his elusive Uncle Roy.
Inspired by Eric Beddows’ marvelous illustrations, and, of course, by our magnificent cat, Vanessa, I designed a cat-headed canopic jar.
The base was a yogurt container spray-painted with a matte sand color and spritzed with a sandy texture. The lid was a cone cut from a file folder with a separate cat face (cut from the same file folder) attached.
I printed some Egyptian designs in color and included some gold wrapping paper for additional embellishment.
The results were spectacular!
