Mermaid paper dolls

 Hello!

Original Paper Collage Painting by inkspired

All paper collages are hand cut from recycled junk mail - catalogs, flyers, magazines, etc.

Let’s have some fun with mermaid paper dolls!

Unless noted, these are all free for you to download and print for your personal enjoyment. Let’s play nice and not try to sell them or mass produce any.

Unfortunately most I have found on Pinterest with no identifying info on who drew them or where you could find them.

As always, I try to give credit where it is due. If you know information about any of these please let me know so I can give credit.

Some of the paper doll clothes do not have tabs, so be sure to add those when you are cutting them out.

Artist: Milka Tertsunen; ArtStation

Cory Jensen is a favorite paper doll artist of mine for two reasons. He is incredibly talented, and most of his paper dolls he offers for free! Here are a few of his:

Paper dolls by Cory Jensen

By Cory Jensen

Here are a few more versions of The Little Mermaid; many are styled after Disney’s Ariel.

By Cory Jensen

Unknown

By Cory Jensen

‘Irina’ Collage Art Doll by inkspired

Paperthinpersonas.com

If you like these paper dolls the artist offers free ones when you sign up for her e-mails.

Artist: Audrey Kaiser

Print out your mermaid twice. The first one glue to thin cardboard, like a cereal box. Or you can print onto a heavier weight cardstock. Then cut out. Draw a stand on first if you want, and cut as one.

The second print is printed on paper. Cut the costumes out, remembering to add tabs if there aren’t any. If it needs to be colored, do this before you cut out.

Paper dolls by Cory Jensen

I thought we needed some mer-men to compliment our mermaids.

Here is a jointed merman by a different artist-

Artist: Shawne Johnson

Here is another jointed PaperDoll, a mermaid, you can put together with brads, eyelets, or string.

PheeMcFaddell.com

Here is one by the same artist that you can color yourself-

This next one is just the mermaid. I thought it was such a great, simple design that you might like to draw some outfits for her. 

Print her out. Go over the major lines with a black Sharpie. Place on a window, with a plain sheet of paper on top. Trace the main lines. Now you have the basic shape and you can start creating outfits to fit!

Make a few copies of the basic shape. Draw your clothes slightly larger, and don’t forget to add tabs. Since she is a mermaid, draw a stand so she can stand alone for playtime. You could draw a piece of coral or seaweed for her to ‘sit’ on.

Have fun!

www.finfriends.com/printable-mermaid-easter-paper-dolls/

Posted on Pinterest by Crafty Annabelle

Now it’s time to go take a break and drink some water and eat goldfish crackers!

The next 2 mermaid paper dolls are by the same artist, but very different styles-

Artist: Julie Allen Matthews

Artist: Julie Allen Matthews 

Next I have 2 more by Cory Jensen-

Paper dolls by Cory Jensen

The next 2 paper dolls are Lucia and Rina, drawn in manga style-

Artist unknown

 I’ve covered many different styles of mermaids for you. Now the hard part - which one to pick to print and play with first?

‘Til next time,

inkspired

You can find me on Pinterest as

Karen Kloberdans

12 Days of Christmas Day 10

“On the tenth day of Christmas

My true love gave to me-

10 lords a’leaping…”

Ray Kampf, Neatorama

Well, probably not those kind of 

Leaping Lords…

Since this children’s rhyming game was popular around 1780, the Lords probably looked more like this -

Dribble, Pinterest

If you want to use this game (put to music in 1906) as something to help you remember Biblical events, places and people, then the 10 Lords stand for the 10 Commandments,

given to Moses by God and told in the Old Testament part of the Bible.

Lori Siebert - Courtney Davis

Just please don’t perpetuate the myth that this was the true meaning of the rhymes, as it clearly is not.

That would be like taking the 

‘Do re me’ song from The Sound of Music 

and giving each sound a religious 

meaning!

Personally, I have always liked frogs as representing the 10 Lords leaping.

By fabulous author and artist Sandra Boynton

Lords leaping brings such fun images to my imagination!

This one reminds me of the chimney sweeps in 

‘Mary Poppins’

Jane Ray, gillianmcclure.blogspot.com

I think 3 of them have fallen off the roof…

No, wait, they are just hiding on the next page!

         Let’s have some crafty fun with these fancy dancing fellows.

Suncatcher Studio

This is a great pattern to cut from paper and make ornaments for your tree, or package decorations.

Tip:

Use a small hole punch in the small areas.

You can then fit the tip of your small scissors inside the hole and snip out the area.

Let’s learn how to draw a frog!

pilllpat (agence eureka), Flickr

Next I have a great coloring page,

and a simple line drawing you can fill in with doodles (Zentangles) -

Edupics

Mom Junction

Here are a couple of beaded frogs -

Attica, Pinterest

Tiffani Cartier

I found many free beaded frog patterns on Pinterest if you would like to make a whole army of frogs!

(No, not military. Army is what a group of frogs are called).

Webshots; ScreenSavers

Here is one version of how to make an origami frog. There are a couple out there and depending on how you fold your frog, you can make it jump!

sweet trees, uploaded on Pinterest by Julie Samplawska

Frogs not your thing?

That’s okay! Here is a Leaping Lord coloring page for you -

S. John Davey, 1993

Oops!

12 leaping lords?!?

Yep. There are a few versions of 12 days of Christmas. Here in America we usually stick with the 1906 musical version (and order) that Frederic Austin wrote (published 1909). So, I’m sticking with 10 Lords a’leaping.

Stampscoinsnotes.com

Here are some charming beaded people that could easily be lords -

By curious, Pinterest

Again, I found several versions on Pinterest.

Well, that concludes our tenth day of presents.

Next up -

11 Pipers piping!

Til next time,

inkspired

Angie McLane Crossin 

How to draw a Fairytale

 Welcome!

A Victorian era book of 3 fairytales

There are so many wonderful How-To Draw practice sheets and tutorials, I want to share a few today.

I chose the theme “FAIRYTALES” because it’s a theme I love!

George MacDonald wrote some great fairytales. 

Check his books out!

Think about where you want your scene to be.

Outside? Inside?

Castle streets or forest woodlands?

Top of a mountain or even underground?

“Have I made myself clear?”

- Baloo, the Bear, Jungle Book

Get out some scratch paper to practice on, and a nice pencil and an eraser. You can even use old envelopes or the back of junk mail for scratch paper!

A nice castle how-to. Here’s another one:

Think about what ‘story’ you want to tell.

Will it be all in one picture?

Will you draw more than 1 scene to tell your story?

Next we have a nice dragon. You can draw him fierce, sweet, angry, happy...lots of emotions to play with.

Www.ActivityVillage.co.uk

Www.ArtProjectsForKids.com

When you are comfortable with drawing your dragon, start playing around with eyebrows.

This is a simple and clear way to express emotions!

I think I will start drawing the characters now.

Here are a few different variations of Kings, Princes, 

and even a knight!

All 3 are from www.ActivityVillage.co.uk 

Here are a couple more:

From Activity Village

How-to-draw-funny-cartoons, Pinterest 

Every King needs a Queen, so here are a couple of queens or princesses.

Both of these are from Lovetodrawthings.com

Let’s switch out the princess’s hair!

Fun style of memes, by Tatiana Pestereva.

By How-to-draw-funny-cartoons, Pinterest 

Another one from Activity Village

Shall we add a different crown?

These could also fit the King/Prince.

Designed by freepik.com

Now I think we should add in more animals to the scene  for interest.

A frog...

A mouse...

And a couple of unicorns!

WooJr.com posted on Pinterest

You might need a wizard or two for your fairytale,

so here are a couple to learn how to draw.

The more you practice, the better you will get.

Does your King have a pet goose?

WeDrawAnimals.com

Does the Princess have a pet rooster that follows her everywhere?

Does the Queen carry a hedgehog to dinner?

Let’s give our scene some fillers like grass, flowers, mushrooms, trees...

By TATYANADENIZ.COM/HOW-TO-DRAW

By Crafts for Children, Pinterest 

Looks like we have lots of things to learn how to draw, and tell a story. To finish, we must have a fairy!

Courtesy Art for Kids

Another cute how-to by Lovetodrawthings.com

I think that’s it for today!

Look online for ‘how-to-draw’ and I think you will find lots more to inspire you. Be sure to check some books out too, I have seen several on Amazon.

And then share! Everyone would like to see your drawings! Just leave me a note/photo in the comments section.

Be sure to give someone an unexpected compliment today! These days, we all need a bit of encouragement.

‘Til next time,

inkspired

Kaleidoscope by inkspired and KaleidoCam