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PAPER DOLL STUDIO MAGAZINE

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Winter 2009/2010 Issue 95
Contemporary Fashion Design
Ships late January 2010.

In our very first FULL COLOR issue, we celebrate fashion designers of today with a variety of colorful paper dolls. Many artists show off the fashions of well-known designers such as Galliano, Donna Karan, and Armani, while other artists took a turn at designing their own fashions.

Our own fashion expert, David Wolfe, gives us a look at up-and-coming fashion designers including Jason Wu, Derek Lam, Isabel Toledo and Doo-Ri Chung. Commercial illustrator, Miki Gross, is our featured artist, and we're happy to show examples of her illustration work as well as her fashionable paper dolls.

We also have a nice report by David Wolfe on the 2009 Las Vegas Paper Doll convention with lots of photos and examples of the fabulous paper doll souvenirs. Plus we have a gallery of paper doll art by guest contributor -- students of New York's High School of Art and Design. And for Judy M Johnson's fashionable dress-a-doll, we have 9 pages of outfits from OPDAG members.

Cover art by Miki Gross.

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Summer 2009 Issue 94
Classic Novels

A wonderful selection of paper dolls inspired by a variety of classic novels such as Pride and Prejudice, The Wizard of Oz, James Michener's Hawaii, Wuthering Heights and many more. Plus several famous authors are represented as paper dolls such as Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison and Agatha Christie.

Our featured artist, Carol Peters, created the cute cover art based on The Three Musketeers, but with a twist. Other article include Costuming the Classics by David Wolfe, The Bronte Sisters by Tom Tierney, and how-to by Brenda Sneathen Mattox on Draping the Figure.

Cover art by Carol Peters.

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Spring 2009 Issue 93
India

The patterns, designs and styles of both traditional and contemporary India are shown in a variety of paper dolls by members. For our cover, freatured artist, Marjorie Sarnat, created an adorable little girl who wears modern clothes inspired by traditional designs. David Wolfe tells us about Princess Karam of Kapurthala, the famous maharanee who in the 1930s inspired the Schiaparelli collection based on the sari. There's also a how-to on how to wear a sari, plus Johana Gast Anderton gives us some tips from the drawing board.

Cover art by Marjorie Sarnat.

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Fall 2008 Issue 92
Broadway

The paper dolls go to Broadway in this issue! Featured Artist, Gregg Nystrom, kicks things off with a fun, colorful cover paper doll of Anita Page and Bessie Love in "Broadway Melody." David Wolfe takes a look at Broadway designer Irene Sharaff. Carol Peters talks about the history of Broadway and her experience of creating a famous showgirl paper doll set. Sylvia Kleindinst gives us a report of the 2008 convention in Piscataway, New Jersey. And Johana Anderton offers 18 tips from the drawing table.

Cover art by Gregg Nystrom

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Spring 2008 Issue 91
Lingerie/Loungewear/Sleepwear

This issue is filled with lovely theme related paper doll art plus 7 pages of dress-a-doll costumes. David Wolfe offers a look at "Hollywood Undressed" featuring memorable lingerie and loungewear worn on the big screen in movies such as Doris Day in The Pajama Game, Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8 and Judy Garland in Gone With the Wind.

Also, Johana Anderton offers some drawing tips and Sylvia Kleindist provides a photo review of undergarments through the decades. Our featured artist (and cover artist) is Charlotte Krause.

Cover art by Charlotte Krause

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Spring 2008 Issue 90
Comic Book Characters

This issue is fresh off the press! Subscribers will be receiving their issues by early to mid-April. This issue features comic book characters, representing paper dolls of memorable characters such as Katy Keene, Wonder Woman and Betty Boop, as well as newly created characters dreamed up by our artists. e have a very special guest artist, Anne Timmons, who illustrates the GoGirl! Comic books.

Also included is an article about Tillie the Toiler by Sylvia Kleindinst and Kim Breklein offers Drawing Tips and Tools for the paper doll artist. Kwei-lin Lum has created a paper doll of The Dragon Lady to go with her article about Milton Caniff's adventure comic, Terry and the Pirates.

This issue has the exciting addition of four full color pages to showcase a dozen theme paper dolls in color!

Cover art by Anne Timmons

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Fall 2007 Issue 89
Erte

The beautiful linework and ingenious designs of Erte are celebrated in this issue of Paper Doll Studio. Dozens of Erte-inspired paper doll costumes fill the pages including lovely cover art by Maureen Fitzsimmons. Related articles include "About Erte" by Norma Lu Meehan, "My Erte Encounter" by Tom Tierney and "Lost in Lotusland, the story of Erte's designs in the movies," by David Wolfe. Plus a review of the San Antonio paper doll convention by Brenda Sneathen Mattox.

Cover art by Maureen Fitzsimmons
Color insert by Basia Koenig
Full page Erte paper doll by David Wolfe

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