From: HobgoblinH-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:03:38 EST
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] My New Glove Puppets: photos


In a message dated 2/24/2009 4:37:31 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
creaturiste-AT-primus.ca writes:

I see  what you mean, Alice.
Maybe it's not such a bad thing to have my puppets  kind of look like me, or 
aspects of me.
: )

No, it's not. One of the more striking cases of this phenomenon was Bil  
Baird. Most of his puppets were strikingly related, and tended to have his nose,  
among other self-portrait characteristics. 


Even  if I don't see the resemblance, maybe it's just not my place to do  so.
When I started sculpting on a much faster track, I knew about this  
phenomenon already, but had some advantages. I had once worked in the Welfare  
Department, which gave me a chance to examine some extreme faces. I  also studied what 
age really did over time. And I studied my own face to know  what made me 
recognizable-- for the most part for comparison with other faces.  As to hands 
and feet, I had to use my own for models because-- what can I say--  there they 
were. 


I  just hope when I try to make beautiful female characters that they don't  
end up looking like me.
LOL

Good luck there. Beautiful women are very hard. Books are written  about how 
hard they are to do.  My first attempt looked like a woman gym  coach. What 
you have to achieve there is much more delicate work, especially  around the 
jawline and the lips. Marianne looks pretty. 


Maybe, if I want to move away from self-aspects in my puppets, I  should once 
and for all do a very realistic self-portrait puppet. I'll  just be careful 
not to leave it in any voodoo practitioner's hands.
;  )
Or learn the exact shape of your nose, the curve of your brows and mouth,  
the width of your face, the height of your forehead, then start comparing them  
to others you know. You also want to start "reading" people's faces to see 
what  they communicate. -- "Please like me." "Look me, look me." "I'm too busy to 
 bother with others." "Don't hurt me." "Victim." -- These are things you can  
read. 
Alice



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