There were many answers to this question at the Open Puppet Art Festival-Competition "PuppetGrad", held in St. Petersburg 3-5 December 2021. This year the Festival-Competition is dedicated to the Year of Science and Technology. The project has been carried out in Vyborgsky District of St. Petersburg since 2012, and is not the first year it has been included in the list of municipal events of the Committee on Culture of St. Petersburg. The festival programme for all participants ...

Laura Scattolini and her dolls Laura Scattolini is one of the most famous dollmakers, winner of numerous awards, including Dolls magazine and Walt Disney. Laura was born in Mantua, Lombardy-Northern Italy. Her father was a famous musician and artist. By happy coincidence, the girl inherited an artistic gift which has helped to develop many ...

A great gift for Moscow and visitors to the city - this year's large-scale exhibition of collectible dolls, THE ART OF THE PUPPET, will be held in December and will open the programme for the winter exhibition season: traditionally on the eve of the New Year and Christmas holidays. For the first time, doll artists and their collections will occupy the entire space of Gostiny Dvor - 14 thousand square metres of exhibition space and the beautiful Atrium, where ...

Roman Shustrov was born in St Petersburg in 1959 and graduated from the Repin Academy of Arts. Since the late 1980s he has worked in the genre of author dolls. Roman Ivanovich taught at the Higher School of Fashion and Applied Arts, in the Puppet Department. For several years he taught at the University of Arts and Humanities. At the end of the 90s he became a member of the Union of Artists of Russia. Since the beginning of the 2000s he has been a member of the MOAC.

In this master class, you will learn how to sew an interior dragonfly doll with your own hands. dragonfly pattern ex 5 Enjoy your creativity! Material prepared by Anastasia Golenieva Instagram          

Report from the Dolls and Costume Exhibition in Livadia (Republic of Crimea) The Grand Opening Ceremony of the National Costume Festival-contest "Babushkin Chest" was held at the Crimean Ethnographic Museum in Simferopol, 24 November 2021. The halls of the museum hosted a rich collection of Crimean craftsmen, featuring over two hundred exhibits reflecting national colors of the peoples of Crimea. The creative project was implemented by the Centre of Folk Arts and Crafts at ...

Many people know the thrill of looking forward to the New Year when they open a box of carefully stacked fragile treasures - Christmas decorations. The Christmas tree is both a symbol of the festive season and a wonderful occasion to bring the family together in a common creative activity. Everyone, without exception, likes making Christmas decorations. This family tradition is hundreds of years old. The process of creation is enjoyable, beautiful and fascinating. It gives both children and ...

In this video, I will show you how to shape the doll's body. Materials: braided copper wire, molar tape, napkins, Moment Crystal glue. Before starting work, I think over a beautiful pose of the doll. I twist a wire frame, form a loop in it for the spring that connects the doll's head. I recruit the shape of the body from molar tape. I paste over the resulting figure with cloth napkins, cut into ribbons. I apply ...

Where did the concept come from and what is an artel doll? They were created in artels at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, this is a common name used by craftsmen who recreate such beauties. The artel doll is not a muslin girl and, of course, not a Barbie. This is our story, captured by the puppeteer artists of the 1920s. A huge, amazing variety of types and some special ones characteristic of the Russian ...

On November 18, on the embankment of the Griboyedov Canal, Rimsky-Korsakov Avenue, 93, in the Kolomna district, chosen by artists, a small cozy Museum of St. Petersburg Angels was opened. The museum is a memorial apartment where two wonderful puppeteer painters Roman Shustrov and his wife Maria Kasyanenko lived and worked, who recently left us: Roman a year ago, Maria a little over six months. The novel is known as the author of puppet sculpture. Many ...