This week is about drawing paper dolls. At the same time, we celebrate the social nature of hand-drawn paper dolls.
For an artist, the difference between a doll and a human is that the doll opens the door to a fantasy. Thus, drawing paper dolls is very different from painting portraits. But if I have to pick from the two, I would say that paper dolls make you more of an artist.
Compared to a human, only a doll can be a creature of the imagination – for example, a plant and a spirit at the same time.
Dream Wardrobe
Only a doll can have a wardrobe where every piece is organized.
Only a doll can get out of the box and go where ever the imagination takes her.
Only a doll can wear a butterfly as a wig and rose leaves as a bodice.
To be a fashion designer for a doll is the play we can’t resist.
Unspoken Secrets
Only a doll can hold the secrets that every artist has.
Because isn’t it so that no matter how close we are, there are dreams that we can’t tell anybody? Dreams that would perhaps sound silly, too grand, or too selfish. Dreams that make you an artist.
True Friends
Only for a doll a true friend is easy to find.
With paper dolls, I examine the social aspect of an artist’s life – how we can feel less lonely when creating and how the result can be a bridge between all the art that we have created. And when we give or share a picture of a doll, it also invites other people to play and connect with themselves and others.
Doll World – Drawing Paper Dolls
Come to draw adorable dolls and their dresses with me!
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I admire your artwork, drawings and oil paintings very much. Your paintings are incredible! Your paper dolls are quite wonderful and speak to the little girls inside me. They love each doll and her dresses. The boxes you have all the dolls outfits in is beautiful too. I work as an Art Therapist in a dialysis care facility, outpatient. The artwork my people create can be quite wonderful and the company prints annual calendars with artworks form one artist at each facility an art therapist works in.
I hope to join one of your drawing groups online at some point in the near future.
Happy New Year! Best wishes, Kathryn
Thank you, Kathryn! Welcome to classes when you are ready. Wishing all the best in your work as an art therapist!