Gerta and Moo are made almost entirely out of paper. Their costumes are cloth but other than that...they are paper. For the faces, I used a Paper Sculpture technique invented by Albrecht Roser, a german puppeteer.

I did not paint Moo. The paper is a bark paper from Ecuador, which I chose partly because of it's mottled brown color and partly because he is a woodland creature so bark paper seemed perfect. Gerta's hair is made from a marigold paper for similar reasons. The pale yellow color was perfect and flowers are very important to her throughout the show.

These are performed in the Czech Black style.