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My puppets 1982-1987
I lived in Turku, Finland those days.
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I was young. 1985 |
Puppet studio at a corner of the living room 1985 |
Guess who they are? 1985 |
1987
I made puppets mainly for teaching materials in this year. I felt I had made all what I needed to make.
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Almost all heads, hands and shoes are made of paper mache and styrofoam and painted with acrylic color. Hairs are made of yarn. The bodies are made of foam and jointed with pieces of leather. Some of them has mechanism for puppet theater. |
1986
I made these theater puppets of different types, different mechanisms mainly for teaching materials.
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Almost all heads, hands and shoes are made of paper mache and styrofoam and painted with acrylic color. Hairs are made of yarn.
Bodies are made of foam and jointed with pieces of leather, if they have bodies. Last two puppet are made of foam inside.
Almost all of them has mechanism for puppet theater.
For a Japanese puppet theater 1986
I made many puppet for a Japanese puppet theater in Tokyo when I visited in Japan in the spring.
Story of Fox Gon
My mission was to make puppet without clothes.
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The heads, hands and feet are made of styrofoam harden by gauze and glue. The bodies are of foam.
Three Lucky Cards
My wife is behind them in the theater I worked. We are just married then.
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The heads, hands and feet are made of styrofoam and paper mache. The bodies are of foam. The brown pieces are of leather for joints.
Invisible Lucky Boy
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| The heads, hands and feet are made of sytrofoam and paper mache. The bodies are of only styrofoam harden by glued clothes. The brown pieces are of leather. The last hand puppets have foam bodies. |
1985
I made a few puppets for me, a few for my friends and a lot for Turku city.
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Tale of Eskimo 1985
I made five Eskomo puppets for a theater groupe of Turku city.
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These heads are made of paper mache, they are empty. Bodies are made of cardboard harden with glued clothes.
Little Red Riding Hood
They are for a theater group of Turku city.
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Their heads and hands are of paper mache.
Puppets of world people
They are also for Turku city
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Family puppets for speach therapy
They are also for Turku city
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Common puppets for children´s play
They are also for Turku city
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1983-84
I made first puppets when I was traveling aroun Finland.
Last two puppets were made a little later, when I wanted to know how theater puppets works for real.
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Last two puppets were made of paper mache. It wsa my first time to use paper mache.
Insides of puppets, how to make and how to use
I show you how puppets are made and how to use them.
Bunraku is a new word for many. It is a traditional Japanese puppet theater. Actors use puppet behind them.
This way spread to puppet theaters world widely in modern ppuppet theater.
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Writings on theater puppets
1. Types of Theater Puppets and How to Make
I wrote 13 pages of rough draft on how to make puppets. I think it was 1986. They are only in Finnish.
2. How to Make Easy Puppet
I explained here how to make easy puppet which is almost theater puppet. And last page is on how to make stick puppet.
| How to make easy puppet 1 head | How to make easy puppet 2 body | How to make stick puppet |
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