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Hippo traveled light and left Grumpie Duckie at home. But they can still play together in the form of a finger puppet show.
For my photography mock. my sister is the model. she really was not happy about tying her up in the garden, but i got some amazing shots
I've been waiting to find the perfect monkey general Hanuman Burmese marionette, then I stumbled across the PERFECT one, because he has lush purple velvet and ornate lavender outfit. He's gorgeous!!
the czech obsession with puppetry fascinates me. it's like an exercise in irony -- having been hapless puppets of the germans and russians, the only viable retaliation is art.
This water puppet theater performance lasted approximately 45 minutes. I am used to Regal Cinemas in Portland, Oregon where these huge warnings are given. "Turn off your cell phones. No recording under penalty of both hands being removed from your body…" or something like that. Hanoi, no warnings, no rules. Cameras, videos, cell phones, iPads, samsung tablets--all allowed. So this is my contribution to the fray. Live performers/musicians on the left side. Puppeteers behind the curtain manipulating everything in the water. Next to me, two young kids, both with ADHD, bouncing off the seats. Attention spans of about 30 seconds. Three seats for two adults and two kids. The father finally got up and moved to a different row leaving the mom with two hyperactive kids and me. great performance anyway.
The puppet was made by Bruce Rowland and dressed by me. The head was made from fibreglass and the hands, feet and legs carved from wood. The helmet, shield and lance were made on a 3D printer.
From an exhibit of Jim Henson's puppets in the American History Museum.
Sorry about the glare of the flash.
Puppet show by a German couple at the Kala Ghoda arts festival in Bombay. Check out the story here - www.caferati.com/kgaf/?p=48
Thunderbird's Parker puppet replica. 90% finished.
Puppet by me. Shoes by me.
Clothes (the hard part) by my wife. :-)
Mrs C-13 collects Pelham Puppets.We've probably got about 100 of them around the house and it's taken me this long to realise that they'd make a great subject to photograph!
Don't have nightmares kids :-)
The above image might be too small to make things out, so I've put detail pictures in my photo album.
I'm gonna talk about the method of papier-mâché I use on my puppets. It was Brian Kooser who taught it to me...giving credit where credit is due.
The first thing I do is get myself a whole bunch of grocery bags—preferably of two different colors. At Top Foods you can get a regular brown bag with red panels down the sides. At Metropolitan Market you can get white bags. Next I tear off all cut edges and discard them—I also try to remove anything with glue on it (like the area where the handles are attached). I carefully rip the red panels off the brown bags and make two piles: red and brown. I tear the pieces into approximately 5” by 5” sections.
Next, I take a flat bottomed bowl and mix maybe a teaspoon of wheat paste with water. I add water slowly until I get the paste to the consistency of gravy or hair conditioner. Then I add a generous amount of the Elmer’s Wood Glue.
To prepare the plastaline head, I used two release agents so I can get the clay out easier after the papier-mâché is dry. First, I cover the head with generic petroleum jelly. Second, I cover the head with Reynolds plastic wrap—and I use that brand for a reason. It actually sticks to plastaline. Others are often designed not to stick to food so consequently they don’t stick to anything.
Now, I’m ready to begin. To start off, I take a piece of the brown paper and put it in my paste, cover the paper completely with paste, then wad it into a ball and squeeze out the excess paste. I’ll then un-wad the ball and wad it up again. This causes the fibers on the surface of the paper to stand up a little. Sort of like Velcro. When it’s placed on, the layers will grip each other better. I repeat these steps until I have three or four little waded balls ready to go.
Unwading the first ball and tearing off quarter-sized bits of paper—not strips, I starting with the nose and I work out from there. Little pieces are better than strips because you get more overlap that way which adds thickness. I’m careful to push the paper completely into mouths, ears, nostrils, etc. Sometimes I have to put a little paste directly on to the Reynolds plastic wrap to help with sticking. Once I cover the head completely, I set it somewhere to dry a little.
For the second layer I use the red or white bags so I can make sure to cover it completely. With the different color, I can easily see holes. It helps to avoid thin areas.
For the third layer, I go back to the brown again. No matter how careful I am, I’m going to get wrinkles and bulges. I don’t worry about it. Once the third and last layer is dry, I push into the surface some Japanese Paper clay which either gives me a nice smooth surface or at least a place I can sand smooth. I also use the Paper Clay to add fine details which would normally be lost in papier-mâché only. I use a razor blade to cut the head in half (vertical cut, through the ears and not nose if I can help it). I pull the front off first. It usually comes off the clay very easily, however if it’s a cold day in Seattle, I may need to put the head in my tinfoil and lamp heater box to soft the clay a bit.
That's about it. Any questions?
It's Halloween and Moggs is all kitted out with LuNi Designs goods. I'm wearing the Juliet Skin created by Nimil and posing with the Puppet pose created by Lucas. I love these guys. Go check out their store - they sell goth, horror and black humour type goods... quirky, fun and all year around.
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