illustration - eyes of the beholder

Illustrations for Velvet Effigy's puppet show, Eyes of the Beholder.

A retelling of Beauty and The Beast, held during the New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival in 2024.

These illustrations were projected in the prologue, where the Beast transgresses against the Queen, is banished to the forest, and morphs into a grotesque spider creature.

the caves where the Beast is born; the defacement of the tunnel by the Beast


the Beast is banished by the Queen into the woods


the Beast begins to transform in the woods


the transformation scene


the Beast completes her transformation, and finds a home in the woods where she can live


work in progress


the forest illustration on transparency paper


illustrations projected during the show