Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 02:29:31 -0400
Subject: Re: PUPT: Asking for trouble...


on 9/28/02 3:40 AM, Mary Robinette Kowal at mary-AT-otherhandproductions.com
wrote:

> I'll probably regret this, but- I need a puppet head of me.  We've got a
> version of "Pinocchio" in which I play the Blue Fairy as an actor.  At
> one point in the show Pinocchio carves a puppet of the Blue Fairy.  I
> hate the thing I've made.
> 
> So- what I'm looking for is someone who can match the style of the rest
> of the puppets in the show AND stylize my face to match.  I only need
> the head.  Photos of the show are at
> http://www.otherhandproductions.com/pinocchio.
> 
> If you are remotely interested e-mail me off-list and we'll talk.  If
> you'd like to mock me for being unable to sculpt myself then use the
> public forum.  This has got to be good for some humor.
> 
> Mary

Hi Mary,
 Went to the link but got a "File not found" notice. I'll try later, but in
the mean time, have you concidered casting your face and then reducing the
cast to the size you need? I am not sure exactly how the reduction is done,
(I think mulitple successive castings) but you would do the first cast in
algenate (spelling?) to get a true cast of your face. Perhaps someone else
here could illuminate the method of reduction. I saw this at a Ren Faire
where they made "exact replicas" dolls of you - well, actually your face on
a doll. The artist was, shall we say, less than sharing in her method of
reducing the original down to the doll size, but I was not sure if this was
because she tired of trying to explain it to the average layman who couldn't
understand the techniques and materials or if she was trying to protect a
"secret" method.
 As for sculpting youself, I've heard the gym was a good place to start but
I've never found any artist material there. Model material maybe, but not
any sculpting tools and such. Guess you have to bring your own.

Christopher



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