From: "Puppet People" <puppetpeople-AT-nycap.rr.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 16:02:50 -0400
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Search for photos.....


Fred,
    I am with you on trying to work "beyond your own style". I always find 
myself coming back to similar faces or bodytypes when I make a puppet. My 
wifw calls me "The Cutifier" because at the end of the day, even the 
nastiness of characters I have created tend to look a bit cute. It is a 
problem I am trying to work on but, hey,  it has been a style worked out for 
me for the last 14 years.

Mark
The Puppet People
www.thepuppetpeople.org
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Angusson-AT-aol.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Search for photos.....


Hi Jon:

I'm with you.....
They had some info on their website but I don't recall hearing or reading
that they ever came here.

Some folks here have gone to Europe to study the Czech method of marionette
making but I do not know the company name. I think Yvette Edery made mention
recently of the people she studied with. If it's the same company, she's 
indeed
very fortunate.

Each person has his own style and I have mine. I think I do OK, but when I
see such inspired designs which truly exploit the potential of the puppet, I
realize just how uptight I am with my own work.
And I am finding that it's VERY difficult to shed one's style. I am not a
kid...LOL   (Understatement...)
Whatever esthetic I have been blessed with has a REAL power of its own, and 
I
find that when I attempt to circumvent what comes so naturally and easy to
me, it's a real struggle. I wonder if it's just me?

These puppets have such a magical quality and really speak to me.

FWIW.

Fred T.






> Do they ever do workshops in the USA? I would gladly take a week off
> to attend one!
>
> Jon
>




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