From: Gregory Ballora <gregballora-AT-sbcglobal.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:32:32 -0800
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Paper Mache


Thank You Anne.
I was busy getting my knickers in a knot over Mathieu's post. I am  
glad you got my point.
Mathieu, I think that we have all seen the value of your many posts  
on Paper Mache, but when you speak of getting on your soap box, all I  
can think is that you are starting to sound like a religious  
crusader. Paper mache is a great material. Please keep using it and  
teaching it. Make it your art form as long as it feeds you. My  
pointing out a difficulty in it does not diminish it. But your  
comments about "puppeteers" being uninformed and generalizing really  
don't sit well. Feels to me like you are making PM the "right" way to  
make a puppet.

My thoughts, for what they are worth. If there is something to learn  
there, great. If not, fine, let it go.

Greg

> I don't think anybody is slamming papier-mache, Mathieu.  Most of us
> have used it at one time or another and I think we have a pretty good
> idea of its strengths as a medium.  That said, I think no matter how
> you "slice" it, it is a time-consuming method.  I think that was
> Greg's point when he mentioned that many of us have turned to neoprene
> or some other material - not that we're disdaining papier-mache as
> being beneath us as artists, or something.
>
> Anne
>
>
> Anne Schaefer
> anne-AT-tanglewoodmarionettes.com
>
>
>
> On Feb 16, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Creaturiste-AT-primus.ca wrote:
>
>> Thank you so much, Alan,
>> for the input!
>>
>>
>> Paper mache has made its proofs in the past, but somehow there was a
>> lack of
>> support, and people forgot.
>>
>> Other "noble materials" don't seem to have a PR problem (such as
>> Bronze),
>> despite having problems of their own in terms of properties.
>>
>>
>> Your information about the wooden marionnettes with mache masks also
>> solved
>> a problem asked from me two days ago, by two students. My solution
>> was not
>> as elegant nor as simple.
>> And it conincides with an approach I was thinking about last night
>> to save
>> time in my current puppet molds (making the face area out of pulp,
>> and the
>> rest completed out of strips)
>> Now I really want to make it that way, for the next copies (I'm
>> building an
>> inventory to sell).
>>
>> Holy Serendipity, Puppetman!
>> I sent the info immediately to my students!
>> Thanks so much.
>> One good piece of info can help so many people!
>>
>>
>>
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