Mujeres, jaanuar 1985
I said it before: I’m on a Christmas design spree!! To be able to get through every whimsy I’m working on, I will have to give you 2 posts some days… :-D For my second post today,…
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A collection of Best Christmas Angel Images! These Vintage Angel Clipart pictures are gorgeous! Perfect for using in Holiday Crafts.
Had eye doctor quarterly exam yesterday and can’t see for hours afterwards. Am posting a couple of Tillie The Toiler paper dolls tonight, got my book out to look for something Bobe requested…
Not exactly paper dolls, but could easily be used as one. Barbie vintage Drawing Guide images for a Light Table (or electric drawing set) to be traced. From1963. Description:drawing guides Name: Barbie Light Table/Electric Drawing Set Date: 1963 Publisher: Lakeside Toys Artist:unknown Format: 7 sheets of templates to trace Condition: unused, no light table, incomplete
Paper doll friend Natalia, a wine journalist from Russia, offerred to share these wonderful paper dolls with us. They're from the Soviet Union Journal Rabotnitsa (Working Woman), and were published between 1978-1982. They're beautifully drawn. Thank you so much, Natalia. As a side note: I took Russian for two years in high school, and loved it. I used to be able to read Cyrillic easily, and I was able to understand the Russian dialog in the marvelous movie The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming without reading the captions (though that likely owes more to the grade-school Russian in the movie, than my translation skillz). Unfortunately, most of that ability is gone now. P.S. Rent The Russians are Coming- it holds up extremely well (except for the hokey love story- and maybe I'd like to brain the bratty kid, but that's just me), and I am amazed that it found an audience at all during those tense years. It not only has something important to say to us about hysteria, it's laugh-out-loud funny.
Kewpie dolls were very popular when I was growing up. This paper doll book is not complete and has been enthusiastically played with, but what has survived is still very cute. I think much of its appeal is the dinky size of the dolls and their clothes. There must have been six dolls originally. I am missing number 1 - if I find it tucked away with some of my other possessions (together with any of the other dresses) I'll post it at a later date. One more outfit for doll #5 can be found at the end of the Cinderella-Jack-and-Jill-Story Favourites paper doll post. It is an extra one I discovered when looking for the dresses for that post. While I was sorting through some of my old paper dolls this week I found this dress. It belongs to my original set of the little ballerinas that I posted in January (25th). This is one of the extra dresses that was not in the book I bought on eBay recently but was included in my older version of the set. Click here to see the full Little Ballerina's book (posted 25 January 2011)
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I've not yet received the latest copy of Paper Doll Studio (issue #114), the quarterly magazine published by the Original Paper Doll Artists Guild, but I believe it is on its way to me in the post. This was my contribution. The theme is 'Celebrate the Holidays'. Of course I went back to my own childhood for inspiration ...... but it was only after I had completed the first page that it dawned on me I had represented my sister and myself! So I called the 2 little girls Sharon and Melanie. I loved making this set. I'm not sure yet where it will feature in the magazine but Jenny seemed to like it when I sent it in. And as usual I'm including both the completed pages here as well as the uncoloured sketch pages which are not printed in the magazine, I have slipped behind with a couple of previous issues so I will feature them here as well. Issue #113 was 'Chanel'. It took me a while to decide which decade I wanted to concentrate on .... but in the end I settled on the 1950's. I felt there was no way I could make a Chanel paper doll without including her classic tailored suit. We were also invited to 'dress a doll' in this issue. The doll is copyright to Jim Howard and features in his 'Couture of the 1930s' paper doll book published by Paper Studio Press in 2012, I'm including it here from the magazine just to put the dress in context: I opted to make something a little out of the ordinary here and depicted Coco Chanel's revolutionary short 1920's wedding dress, using a studio photograph of a bride (or model) that I've always loved. Issue #112 was 'Favourite Mysteries'. We had just moved house when the deadline for submission was looming so I ended up with a doll that was a little bit simpler and more pared down than my usual efforts. I'm a great fan of Grace Kelly, so it was a lovely opportunity for me to showcase some of the wonderful costumes she wore as one of Hitchcock's blondes. My doll shows her in 'To Catch a Thief' Portraiture is not one of my strengths but I did enjoy making the clothes. And I was surprised to find my offering featured a lot more prominently in the magazine than I was expecting. In the original sketch the dress on the right was going to include her legs (so I could give her matching shoes) but I decided they looked dreadful and removed them. And finally to finish the last page I'm including here goes back to issue #108 - the Favourite Films theme. This was the only issue where I sent in multiple submissions. All three were published and I have included two already in previous posts ...... Galadriel from the Hobbit and The Hunger Games - Catching Fire I've not posted this page before - mainly because I ended up making poor Yul Brynner look like a rather strange alien. But I was happy with the ball gown so I'll pop it in here. It's the 'Shall we Dance' scene from 'The King and I' another very vivid childhood memory of mine.
This is an early 60's Glamour Girl set from Lowe- Campus Queens #942. It's very likely a reprint, and it was published on pulp paper, not nice stock. I thought the dress on the back cover doll was pretty. Since you have to cut most of the dress off for the doll (you can barely see the perforations in the scan), I adapted it for a cut-out as well.
A Blog and Paper Doll Friend from Denmark generously offerred to share some beautifully drawn paper dolls that were featured on the backs of OTA boxes (an oatmeal cereal), most printed in the 50's. I'll be featuring these dolls over the next few weeks on Thursday Tab. These adorable girls were drawn by Ulla Pihl. p.s. I tried to find some information on OTA but couldn't. I don't know if it was a cold cereal, or a hot one, like oatmeal.In some of the scans, you can see the thick cardboard that the dolls were printed on. p.s.s. Blog Friend Jona sent a link to the maker of OTA, which turns out to be the same company that makes oatmeal in the US. I have a box in my cupboard right now. Thanks so much, Jona!
Bonequinhas do inesquecível filme Grease.
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