International Day of Humor When is it? April Fools 'Day or April Fools' Day is a fun holiday celebrated around the world on April 1st. On this day, it is customary to play pranks on relatives, friends and just acquaintances, cheerfully making fun of them. The origins of the holiday Where this tradition comes from, from France, England, Mexico or Sweden - a mystery shrouded in the darkness of obscurity. One version ...

Do you have a desire to make an imperfect doll? Let's start with the definition. Ideal - from the Greek, kind, image, idea; the highest goal of activity, aspirations; perfect embodiment of something. When an artist starts creating a doll, he has an image of what he wants to get as a result. Even if this image is unconscious. It is worth clarifying here: the artist does it according to his own idea and desire. ...

You can find the history of the creation of these dolls in the previous article "A fairy tale told in dolls (Preface)". Cloud Maidens. Part 2. (Fairy tale-ballad.) In ancient times, when the earth was very young, and miracles were found in its forests, waters and mountains, in the early spring in the morning three travelers, three good ones, got lost in the dawn fog ...

Part 1. How and where does the idea of a particular doll come from? If you know, please tell me. Because I don't have my own answer to this question yet. But there is a history of an already embodied idea. Cloud Maidens. Yes, it so happened that this is not one, but three dolls at once. You can say that I broke through after a long silence in the case ...

Briefly about the main thing. The beginning of the image. Each time, starting to create a new doll, the most important task arises before me - to embody this or that image in such a way as to convey the character and spirit of not only the character, but also the era to which he or she belongs. To do this, I try to study the subject of the costume as deeply as possible. First, it's terribly interesting and ...

Why am I writing articles? First, it's interesting. My favorite section in the magazine: History of dolls. I am captivated by the events from the life of talented masters, their unique works, creative searches. Secondly, I would like to share my findings and thoughts. When you begin to delve into a topic that interests you, you find answers to many questions. It often happens that one sentence written ...

An artist is not a vocation ... And not a state of mind. It is God's gift to want (and preferably be able to 😉) talk to people! Using different tools, different languages and dialects, gaining knowledge and learning incessantly. And the one who has chosen this way of speaking like a doll at the call of the soul must also be very responsible and wise. Because his ...

When the International Day of Puppetry, or World Puppetry Day, is celebrated, the whole world has celebrated in early spring, March 21, since 2003. History of the holiday The history of the holiday began in 2000 at the XVIII Congress of the International Union of Puppet Theater Workers (Union Internationale de la Marionnette, UNIMA) in Magdeburg. Exactly ...

 Foreword. Historical notes. Once, very long ago, at the dawn of mankind, one primitive man, strange in the eyes of his fellow tribesmen, took a wand in his hands. I attached a bunch of grass to it, wrapped it all with the veins of a dead rhinoceros and painted it with white clay. The tribesmen, who watched all this with interest, respectfully named him a shaman. ...

   Illustration as inspiration ... While still a student at the Ryazan Art School named after G.K. Wagner many years ago, it was a pleasant discovery for me that Pyotr Mikhailovich Boklevsky, an illustrator, was born, worked and was buried on the Ryazan land. The greatest Master of drawing and watercolors, a subtle and sensitive artist, deep, straightforward (and therefore with a complex character), ...