What materials do you need to make puppets?

The materials needed are: the right amount of wood, paint, silk thread, cloth, nails, 3 to 5 buttons and leather.

Make a puppet head

1, blank. The factory going to Hui 'an is operated by a special roughing machine, and the puppet head is made of camphor wood.

2. sculpture. Sculpting people's five senses, although the simplicity of puppet modeling is different, the master's craftsmanship is also different.

3. Dig the soil. A special kind of white mud is added with water to make mud, which is evenly coated on the white blank of the puppet head to cover the scars or holes on the camphor wood and make the surface of the puppet head smooth.

4, spray color. Give the puppet characters face colors, such as Guan Gong's face is red, Bao Gong is black, and the birthday girl is flesh-colored.

5. painting. Draw the outline of various expressions of different characters, and let the joys and sorrows jump from the paper. Then polish it to make the color on my head last forever.

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Puppet art modeling

The "actor" of the puppet show is twofold, and the real performance is the "puppet". Puppet modeling is not only a dramatic role carved by people, but also a manipulated tool. The track of China puppet plastic arts can be roughly divided into three stages:

1, three sculptures and seven paintings. Artists carve their heads first, and then draw faces to distinguish people. Modeling mainly depends on drawing faces.

2. The combination of sculpture and painting. Paying equal attention to modeling, sculpture and painting, emphasizing creativity and techniques, professional puppet artists and workshops have emerged. Both of them belonged to these two stages before Ming and Qing Dynasties.

3. Plasticity and randomness stage. Modern and contemporary puppet modeling artists make full use of modern scientific and technological products to design and make puppets according to the needs of drama content and the aesthetic trend of the times, making them more exaggerated and more characteristic of puppet art.

They not only got rid of the tradition of pure drama, but also formed a splendid puppet modeling world with their own different artistic pursuits, which is an unprecedented prosperity era of puppet modeling art in China.

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