David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Dec 10, 2011, 12:39 pm
Dwayne is a brand new professional half-body puppet hand made in England by Hellyer's Puppet Workshop. He measures approximately 21inches (53.5cm) tall from the top of his antlers to his waist. He also has an excellent arm span of approximately 40inches (102cm) allowing real scope for expressive ar...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Nov 4, 2011, 1:06 pm
I can't quite believe I went to my first puppet festival 15 years ago - and have been to one every year of my life ever since! This year One Way UK's EPMF was held in Derby and Reading and I was fortunate enough to be invited to teach at both festivals. I was running workshops on a variety of subjec...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Aug 13, 2011, 5:50 am
So yesterday I took my boy to see Sesame Street Live: "Elmo Makes Music"and I thought I'd write a quick blog about it. Firstly I should mention my son is 21mnths old... so he doesn't have the longest attention span in the word, but he loves Elmo and Sesame Street. My wife and I thought we'd take a b...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - May 25, 2011, 4:03 pm
Recently I made a Turtle puppet for Surrey County Council. It was for an annual Childminders' Network meeting they host. They didn't request a turtle specifically - they told me to make whatever I wanted to. It was great to get the opportunity to make something totally new and without any limits o...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Mar 8, 2011, 2:27 pm
It's a bit of fun - I hope you like it :)
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Jan 16, 2011, 4:37 am
It's 2011 and Pierre the great is back on the Tube of You... enjoy :) take care - Dave
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Jan 3, 2011, 11:17 am
If you'd love a fun fox puppet, then you're going to want to meet: Terry the Urban Fox Terry is a brand new professional full-body puppet hand made in England by Hellyer's Puppet Workshop. He measures approximately 34inches (86.5cm) tall from the top of his head to the soles of his feet. He also ...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Dec 31, 2010, 4:57 am
So we've successfully reached the end of 2010... a year packed full of great memories! This year in the summer I was fortunate enough to visit the United States again to teach puppetry at I-Fest (you can buy DVDs of the workshops I taught from OneWayStreet.com). Despite the festival being fantastic ...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Dec 3, 2010, 3:25 pm
If you love fun monster puppets, then you're going to want to meet: Sid The Cyclops! Sid is a brand new professional half-body puppet hand made in England by Hellyer's Puppet Workshop. He measures approximately 21inches (53.5cm) tall from the top of his yellow mohican to his waist. He also has an...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Oct 11, 2010, 5:58 am
My friend showed me this recently and i thought it was pretty neat... wordle.net can generate a pretty tag cloud of your blog. Here's mine: It's heavily influenced by that fact I was recently at I-Fest and was writing reports of what happened the night before (as you can see)... but it's a bit of fu...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Sep 10, 2010, 5:57 am
Just a quick update today: Listen! take care - Dave
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Aug 25, 2010, 5:05 pm
As a rule I'm not a fan of posting adverts on my blog... but Paul Louis sent me a link to his new book recently and I thought it would be helpful to a lot of the people that read my blog (judging from the questions I get emailed). I'm guessing most of you will have seen his videos from eHow on YouTu...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Aug 17, 2010, 5:52 am
I'm back from I-Fest and have had a little break - but now it's full speed ahead in the workshop again! One thing I did realise when I came home from the States was I never showed a video of Wolfgang - I just posted his photo on here. Now don't get me wrong the video isn't going to be an Oscar winn...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Jul 10, 2010, 9:43 am
So yesterday was my favourite day of I-Fest so far! last night we had two fantastic feature performances, one by Maegan Bruce and another by Ferrel Marr. Both of these performances were very different from the rest of the feature performances of the week - not least in terms of the number of perfor...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Jul 9, 2010, 8:48 am
OK so Wednesday was hard for me as the jet lag caught up with me... but Thursday was great fun! The day started with a LAB workshop working through a song routine, it was all pretty simple stuff but the group responded really well and they are going to perform what they came up with on main stage F...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Jul 8, 2010, 7:35 pm
So Wednesday was a hard day for me. As you can tell I'm doing this update a lot later in the day than I would normally... it's because jet lag kicked in! Yesterday afternoon I felt like all of a sudden my body switched back to UK time and just couldn't make it through the rest of the day - not good!...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Jul 7, 2010, 9:06 am
It's 7:50 and I'm sat at the PC again next to Mr Barrett as we both check emails and try and work out what the time is in England. Yesterday Gene Cordova and the Bonilla family performed on the main stage in the evening... It was cool. Gene had a nice style of storytelling where he started a couple...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Jul 6, 2010, 9:14 am
It's 7:58am, I've just had breakfast and now it's time for a cheeky check on the computer before the day kicks off in ernest. Paul Morley is checking his emails next to me (and probably the football transfer gossip too if he's honest). Doug Nearpass and Lenny Corliss were spreading the good news of...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Jul 5, 2010, 10:46 am
So here we are again at ONU waiting for the start of I-Fest. It's great to be here again and I'm really looking forward to spending a week with some really creative puppeteers and performers. I'm excited that a puppet festival in the USA has attracted so many puppeteers from the UK - there's loads ...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Jun 25, 2010, 8:54 am
So recently I opened "that" bag that has been under my desk for the past year - just to see what was inside. enjoy :)
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Jun 21, 2010, 7:42 am
Some of you may have spotted it already... but in case you haven't: I recently opened my Zazzle store! It's great fun and I hope you enjoy checking it out. If you have any suggestions for what you would like to see featured in the store be sure to let me know. Take care - Dave
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Jun 3, 2010, 4:22 am
So over the last couple of weeks I've been making a video diary of one of my puppet building projects. The character is Wolfgang the Wolfhound. You can check out the series of videos below to watch him being made: So he is all finished up now and this is what he looks like. As you can see he has la...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - May 27, 2010, 5:18 pm
I am pleased to say that just in time for the weather improving the orders are winging their way into the workshop. It already looks like it is going to be a busy summer of building. I am really excited to be trying out a couple of new techniques… I have a bunch of mental sketches in my mind’s e...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Apr 22, 2010, 6:00 pm
So I've been a Dad now for almost 6 months... which means I've spent the past 6 months in amazement at my son Samuel. However this week he raised the bar on himself! We recently went away on a little family holiday to Poole in Dorset. We had been planning on going to visit my brother and sister-in-l...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Apr 14, 2010, 7:06 am
I have confirmed with the events team at One Way Street the workshops that I am teaching at I-Fest this year... it's really exciting! I was delighted to spot that the brand new One Way Street blog that they have written a post about Hellyer's Puppet Workshop. It's great to get support from an organi...
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Feb 10, 2010, 4:28 am
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Feb 10, 2010, 4:28 am
I've written before about my new website that is about to go live... well now it is live finally! Below you can see a sneak peek of what it all looks like. Click on the image to visit the new site - enjoy!
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David H. posted an article on Hellyer's Puppet Workshop - Feb 5, 2010, 7:49 am
I'm very excited at the moment for a number of reasons... but one of them is my new website. Those of you that follow my blog here will know I have been trying to update/improve my website since 2007 so this has been no small effort! As these things seem to work in my experience you wait ages for an...
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