A man of good presence...

"... and the Lord is with him" - 1Samuel 16:18 

     David and Me (2001) by Canadian self-taught artist Steve Walker (1961-2012)

After the last post I was curious to look online for what had been published with Michelangelo's David in the form of paper dolls... I found some that I share here.

Of course, I can't help but remember the story of the American teacher who lost her job for showing this statue to her students during an art class.

Well, it's better not to pay attention to the details... see you next time! 😜

Renaissance Dress Up Paper Dolls by David Claudon

Dress me up David by Caryco Magnets

David's Drawers by Margi Laurin Art

Paper doll inspired by Michelangelo's David by Donald Hendricks(1932-2013)

Colour me Rodney(Bickerstaffe) paper doll by uncredited artist

Tintin aprés Herge by uncredited artist. You can draw the outfits.

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Depois do último post fiquei curioso para procurar online o que havia sido publicado com o David de Michelangelo em forma de paper doll... Encontrei algumas artes que compartilho aqui. Claro, não posso deixar de lembrar a história da professora americana que perdeu o emprego por mostrar esta estátua aos seus alunos durante uma aula de artes. Bom, é melhor não prestar atenção aos detalhes... até a próxima!

Inspired by great artists

 I would like to share with you some paper dolls that I found in my archives... It's been a year since I tried, once again, to keep up with Inktober. It was created in 2009 by Jake Parker and aims to make one ink drawing a day for a month and publish it online on any social network with the hashtag #inktober or #inktober[year of the challenge]. Jake's intention was to create a sort of daily routine and develop his drawing technique. You can find some tutorials on his website. This challenge has gained thousands of followers around the world, achieving great popularity! You can also see my paper dolls from Inktober 2018. This challenge came from the Miss Missy paper dolls blog 's initiative. In 2022 I created my own list and the base paper doll. The challenge was to design an outfit, an accessory, a pair of shoes or anything inspired by the work or personality of a visual artist from the history of art.

Here it is the list for the challenge:

October 1: Paper doll base model

October 2: Gustav Klimt
October 3: Almada Negreiros(PT)
October 4: Matisse
October 5: Man Ray
October 6: Gauguin
October 7: Chagall
October 8: Tamara de Lempicka
October 9: Salvador Dali
October 10: Pollock
October 11: Keith Haring
October 12: Hokusai
October 13: Leonardo Da Vinci
October 14: Georgia O'Keeffe
October 15: Hundertwasser
October 16: Egon Schiele
October 17: Alphonse Mucha
October 18: Jeff Koons
October 19: Paula Rego(PT)
October 20: Mário Botas(PT)
October 21: Magritte
October 22: Banksy

October 23: Mondrian
October 24: Caravaggio
October 25: Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (PT)

October 26: Basquiat
October 27: Michelangelo (this one should be the base model 😂 )
October 28: Frida Kahlo
October 29: Georges Braque
October 30: Yves Klein

October 31: Andy Warhol

... I wasn't very happy with the paper doll base and then I lacked motivation. I don't like drawing under pressure... however I think I can share the results.

 

Sketch rough for paper doll model

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

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Gostaria de partilhar com vocês alguns paper dolls que encontrei nos meus arquivos... Já faz um ano que tentei, mais uma vez, acompanhar o Inktober. O Inktober foi criado em 2009 por Jake Parker e que se propõe a fazer um desenho a tinta por dia durante um mês e publicar online em qualquer rede social com a hashtag #inktober ou #inktober[ano do desafio]. A intenção de Jake era criar uma espécie de rotina diária e desenvolver a técnica de desenho. No site dele podem encontrar alguns tutoriais. Este desafio conquistou milhares de seguidores em todo o mundo, alcançando grande popularidade!Também podem ver as minhas bonecas de papel Inktober 2018. Este desafio foi da iniciativa do blog Miss Missy paper dolls. Em 2022 criei a minha própria lista e o boneco de papel base. O desafio era desenhar uma roupa, um acessório, um par de sapatos ou qualquer coisa inspirada na obra ou na personalidade de um artista visual da história da arte. Obrigado por passarem por aqui!

Take a bre(a)st

During the Golden Age of American comics The Adventures of Manuel Pacifico: Tuna Fisherman were published as adventure stories set on the open sea filled with facts and true stories . “Although the characters and adventures are fictional, the references to the tuna industry, clothing, geography and history of" Latin America are factual, explained the editor.

 

The adventures of Manuel Pacifico:Tuna Fisherman Issue #1

 

 

 

 

 

The magazine with script and drawings by Frieda Bart Hind, was published between 1950-1951 in several editions, served as merchandising and advertising to promote Breast-O-Chicken canned foods (Westgate-Sun Harbor Co). For readers to obtain a copy, they simply had to send two canned food labels by mail and the magazines were sent to their address.

 

 

The adventures of Manuel Pacifico:Tuna Fisherman Issue #2

 

It seemed to me that the The Adventures of Manuel Pacifico's issue #2 published this paper doll of the main character the skipper Manuel “Manny” Pacifico in his weekend suit and adventurer outfit!

 

 

Panel from The adventures of Manuel Pacifico:Tuna Fisherman with script and art by Frieda Bart Hind

 See you soon! 

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Durante a Golden Age dos comics americanos foram publicadas em banda desenhas As Aventuras de Manuel Pacífico: o pescador de atum que eram passadas em mar aberto. “Apesar dos personagens e aventuras serem de ficção, as referencias à industria pesqueira, às roupas, geografia e história" da América Latina são verídicas, esclarecia o editor. A revista com argumento e desenho de Frieda Bart Hind, publicada entre 1950-1951 com várias edições, servia como merchandising e publicidade para promover as conservas enlatadas da Breast-O-Chicken(Westgate-Sun Harbor Co). Para os leitores conseguirem um exemplar bastava enviar por correio duas etiquetas das conservas e as revistas eram enviadas para a sua morada. Parece-me que no segundo número foi publicada esta paper doll do personagem principal Manuel “Manny” Pacífico com o seu fato de fim-de-semana e as suas roupas de aventureiro! Até à próxima.

The Queen of paper dolls

Rauni Palonen by Petri Mulari,2020

We all know her paperinukke... I mean: Paper dolls.

Rauni Palonen (b.1929- ) is Finnish and designed paper dolls for the magazines Apu and Aret Runt, for thirty years, portraying the royalty, Misses, musicians, actors, actresses, athletes and children's characters.

We had already shared some in previous posts. Take a look here and here.

She graduated in Fashion Design and began designing costumes for theatre and cinema. Then she started working as a fashion journalist during the week and on the weekends she designed celebrity paper dolls at the request of Eero Sauri, editor-in-chief of Apu magazine at the time.

 

Once a week, Rauni drew a public figure chosen by the editors at the magazine's weekly meeting. The clothes had to follow the trends of the time... this was easy for Rauni as she travelled as a fashion journalist to all the big fashion fairs: Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, Copenhagen. 

The magazine aimed to be for the whole family, so they published the paper doll behind an advertising page. This way children could cut out the paper doll without damaging the magazine.
In some published interviews, Rauni shared that she drew thinner bodies because it was difficult to find space on the A4 sheet to place the outfits. The colours of the illustrations usually changed with printing, leaving the paper dolls with crazy colours, but this didn't bother the little ones.

Initially, Rauni's paper dolls varied in pose and were published one week with some clothes, accompanied by a brief description and in the following two weeks more clothes were published on a new two pages.

 Leena Brusiin Miss Europe 1968 by Rauni Palonen

 

Out fits for Leena Brusiin

 

Georg Liemola by Rauni Palonen

Outfits for Georg Liemola

 

Over time, the space in the magazine for paper dolls decreased and so did paper dolls. They were now published smaller and with less clothing.
It was with the magazine's young readers in mind and so that they could change clothes from one doll to another, that it was decided to create a paper doll base model for men and another for women, changing only the face weekly. Rauni shared that she found it easier to draw men than women.

Jaclyn Smith (Charlie's Angels) by Raunin Palonen

Farrah Fawcett (Charlie's Angels) by Rauni Palonen

Cheryl Ladd (Charlie's Angels) by Rauni Palonen

 

 Pippilotta is the main character of three children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren

The book Tähdet arkilla: suomalaisten suosikit paperinukkeina (Stars on a sheet: Finnish favourites as paper dolls) was published in 2008 and is full of photos and stories about Apu's paper dolls.

 

Tähdet arkilla/ Pirkko Vekkeli, Rauni Palonen,Mia Dillemuth.Tammi, 2008

Rauni held an exhibition with her fashion illustrations in 2017.

We should call her the Queen of paper dolls!

See you. 😉

 

Bibliographic references:

https://www.apu.fi/artikkelit/virve-rosti-16-paasi-rauni-palosen-paperinukeksi-1975-se-oli-suuri-kunnianosoitus 

https://nukkehuone.blogspot.com/ maariainen

https://diamonenblogi.blogspot.com/

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Rauni Palonen (n.1929-) é finlandesa e desenhou paper dolls para as revistas Apu e Aret Runt, durante trinta anos, retratando a realeza, Misses, músicos, atores, atrizes, atletas e personagens infantis. Formou-se em Design de Moda e começou a desenhar figurinos. Depois começou a trabalhar como jornalista de moda durante a semana e nos finais de semana desenhava bonecos de papel de celebridades a pedido de Eero Sauri, editor-chefe da revista Apu na época. Uma vez por semana, Rauni Palonen desenhava uma figura pública escolhida pelos editores na reunião semanal da revista. As roupas tinham que seguir as tendências da época... isso foi fácil para Rauni, que viajava como jornalista de moda para todas as grandes feiras de moda: Paris, Frankfurt, Milão, Copenhague. A revista pretendia ser para toda a família, por isso publicaram a paper doll atrás de uma página publicitária. Assim as crianças poderiam recortar a paper doll sem danificar a revista. Em algumas entrevistas publicadas, Rauni compartilhou que desenhava corpos mais magros porque era difícil encontrar espaço na folha A4 para colocar as roupas. As cores das ilustrações geralmente mudavam com a impressão, deixando as paper doll com cores malucas, mas isso não incomodava os pequenos. Inicialmente as paper doll de Rauni variavam em pose e eram publicados uma semana com algumas roupas, acompanhadas de uma breve descrição e nas duas semanas seguintes mais roupas eram publicadas em uma nova página. Com o tempo, o espaço na revista para paper doll diminuiu e os bonecos de papel também. Eles agora eram publicados em tamanhos menores e com menos roupas.
Foi a pensar nos jovens leitores da revista e para que pudessem mudar de roupa de um boneco para outro, que se decidiu criar um modelo base da paper dolll para homem e outro para mulher, mudando apenas o rosto semanalmente. Rauni compartilhou que achava mais fácil desenhar homens do que mulheres. Em 2008 foi publicado o livro Tähdet arkilla que está repleto de fotos e histórias sobre as bonecas de papel de Apu. Rauni fez em 2017 uma exposição com suas ilustrações de moda. Deviamos chama-la de rainha das Paper doll! Até à próxima.

He believes in a beauty...*

 

"We are born and reborn countless times..." - Dalai Lama

 

  From time to time, we all have periods in our lives that take all our energy. Even though I didn't come here to share some paper dolls with you, I've been keeping an eye on the news that appears on the web.

Fortunately, there are many artists using the language and aesthetics of paper dolls to create their artistic work. I share with you Ilja Shapovalov’s beautiful paper doll inspired by the Birth of Venus with seven different outfits. 

Take a look at his gallery of works.

 

Venus paper doll by Ilja Shapovalov

 

Venus paper doll by Ilja Shapovalov

 

Venus paper doll by Ilja Shapovalov

“Every man has the right to doubt his task, and to abandon it from time to time; the only thing he can’t do is forget her.” (The fifth mountain/ Paulo Coelho,1996)

See you soon!

 *From Venus as a Boy/ Björk

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"Nascemos e renascemos inúmeras vezes..." - Dalai Lama

De vez em quando todos temos períodos na nossa vida que nos consomem toda a energia. Apesar de não vir aqui há já algum tempo para partilhar convosco algumas paper dolls, eu tenho estado atento às novidades que vão aparecendo na web. Felizmente há muitos artistas a utilizar a linguagem e a estética de paper dolls para criarem o seu trabalho artístico.

Partilho convosco a bonita paper doll de Ilja Shapovalov (ilustrador, artista digital, artista 2D) inspirada no “Nascimento de Vénus”. Vejam a sua galeria de trabalhos em https://www.behance.net/gallery/169766297/Venus-paper-doll

“Todo homem tem direito de duvidar de sua tarefa, e de abandona-la de vez em quando; a única coisa que não pode fazer é esquece-la”. (O Monte Cinco/ Paulo Coelho, 1996) 

Até breve!