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Black&
White
Paper Doll Sets
Shakespeare's
Ladies
Jane, Wooden Doll
Camille
of the Civil War Era
Kitty of the Civil War Era
Augusta of the Gilded Age (1880s)
Leila of the Gilded Age (1880s)
Helen of the Edwardian Age
Lily of the Edwardian Age (c. 1906)
Nancy of the Edwardian Age
Julia of the Nouveau Age (c. 1915)
Pamela of the Nouveau Age
May Alice (1920s Child)
Betty of the Gallant
1940s
Full
Color Books
Regency
Cousins (1811-1820)
Jazz Age Sisters (1920s)
Kitty Dale (1959)
The Way We Wore 1969
Heritage Brides Around the World
Doll-Inspired
Paper Dolls
Information
Costume
Dictionary
with Illustrations
Printable
Paper Dolls
Embroidered
Paper Doll Designs
Me in my studio; the boxes where I keep my colored pencils are in the background.
An assortment of my porcelain boxes; these are all sold. The top one has the "Nancy" face.
Susie; isn't she adorable?
A message from the artist . . .
My mother taught me to draw paper dolls when I was a little girl, and since I liked to read and was interested in history, it wasn't long before I began drawing period costumes - mostly based on the costumes in movies and television shows I saw with my family. By the time I was eleven, I was pretty good at doing library research to feed my hunger for more information on fashion history, a skill that made my school work much easier. But when I was fifteen, I decided I was too old for paper dolls and put them away.
Years later -sometime in the 1990s - the internet showed me that while I was busy being a grown up, paper dolls had become a perfectly respectable collectible, even for serious-minded ladies like me. So with a sense of freedom I probably hadn't felt since I was about ten years old, I gathered up my art supplies and started drawing again.
Since then
my paper dolls have been published in Doll Castle News, OPDAG,
and Doll Reader. In addition, OPDAG and Paper Doll Review
have published several of pd-related articles by and/or about me. Oklahoma
Education Television did a short piece on my paper dolls as a human interest
feature for a nightly newscast, the Tulsa World did a Sunday feature
on my work, and Tulsa Woman Magazine did a nice article.
These days, my husband and I live in the beautiful Ozark area of northern Arkansas. Before moving here, we lived in Tulsa for many years. We raised our son there, and I taught composition and reading in a college program for deaf and hard of hearing students.
Now I'm the director of a federally funded program to assist at-risk college students at a local community college here in Arkansas.
In addition
to creating paper dolls, I also enjoy gardening and painting porcelain,
especially small porcelain boxes, some of which you see here. If you look
carefully, you may notice that the face on the top box is Nancy from the
black and white "Nancy of the Edwardian Age" set. I've also done children's
portrait boxes that are a favorite with grandmothers.
Some of my long-time customers may remember Little Bit, the studio rabbit. When we moved, Little Bit remained in Oklahoma and was adopted by the family who bought our home there.
But I got too lonesome without a tiny friend, so my father bought Susie for me. That makes Susie, a rather opinionated Yorkshire terrier, my current studio mascot. Just as Little Bit used to like to hop out of his basket onto my drawing board from time to time, Susie leaps from her chair to my lap whenever she decides it's "Yorkie Time."
Frequent Yorkie breaks probably make me less productive, but I certainly have more fun than I would otherwise.
Email Kim Brecklein or write to us at
605 Hwy. 65 N., Ste. B 190, Harrison, AR 72601.
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