Queen Holden

These dolls are drawn by Queen Holden. They are part of a set called "Dolls of All Sizes" from 1945. Yeah, so that means they're 65 years old, the oldest dolls I own. I purchased them at the paper doll party in March, but haven't gotten around to posting them. They should be printable and should fit a standard sized sheet of paper no problem. Queen Holden was a wonderful artist who really enjoyed painting little children. Her daughter is also a paper doll artist, but I'm drawing a blank as to her name right now. My favorite is 3. I don't know if she has a name but it says 3 on the back of her body and on the tabs of her clothing. I love, love that three of the outfits for the girls involve paper dolls. There are two dresses where the girls are holding a book of paper dolls and one where the little girl has been cutting out a doll with scissors.

Hope you like them.

For Classy

Obviously they're unfinished, but here's what I have so far.
The unfinished one will be a long ball gown. I'm not sure what color it will be yet.

The uniform is largely inspired by the uniforms the cleaning ladies wear at my work, but snazzier. I figure Classy had a regular job before she became a famous leading lady. (That's the story I envision for her). Maybe more than one.. Who knows?

Plans, too many plans.

I am thinking about drawing something for Hispanic History Month. I love the use of colors in the various traditional fashions and a lot of modern fashions I like are inspired by those clothes. The trick will be if I can put the face I have in my head to paper. I think her name will be Anna or maybe Anna Maria.

No telling if she'll be finished before the month is up. ;)

Judy's Classy

Judy Johnson, paper doll artist & publisher, is having a Dress-a-doll event. I guess it would be called an event. Everyone is welcome to make a outfit (or several) for her doll Classy before June 26th. Here's a link to her post with lots more info.
http://www.papergoodies.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idProduct=1191

Here is another link to the Facebook Event page. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?invites&eid=120717437940529

Designs can either be submitted to Facebook or sent to an email: judyspapergoods@charter.net if you don't have facebook.

I have no idea what I'm going to do, but there's plenty of time to come up one.




Edit: I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but when I tried to link to the sites they didn't show up in the post. So I just copy/pasted the URLs into the message. You might have to copy/paste them yourselves, but at least they're visible now.

Something long over due.

So it's been a month since the PD Party and I still hadn't posted my dress-a-doll scan. This is now fixed. So there's the owl outfit and a red costume. A blue dress that was inspired by my daughter & a frozen fountain. The blue dress I drew in the car on the way to the party, which is why it looks I dunno... Unfinished. The mask I did at the hotel. The doll as you can see (and I've mentioned before) is not drawn by me, she is from a very old and very beautiful set the host owned.

So I plan to draw her more costumes as I get the chance, but for now this is what she has.

Found a paper doll card

So I was out grocery shopping with my kids. We had been there long enough that the begging for junk food was starting, so I headed to the register through what I thought would be a "Safe Isle". I saw paper doll out of the corner of my eye and I just had to get it. Here she is for the rest of you to enjoy.

Marges8, A PD blog worth following.

This is a really great paper doll blog. She posts nearly every day, but she also posts cards & occasionally bookmarks. If you haven't seen it before definitely check it out.


I thought this was really cute.


Link here: http://marlendy.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/for-a-terrific-granddaughter-easter-card/


She also has a Katy Keene as Isadora Duncan drawn by Barbara Rausch. There's another page of well drawn costumes on her page.