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Post by FarfraeFarm on Apr 26, 2017 7:14:44 GMT
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Post by pinkmouse on Apr 26, 2017 20:09:31 GMT
The tiny eyes are from when Helen was painting the models. The large and medium ones are a mixture of mine and Nat's, plus Annabel did a few models like that also. The squarish ones on the Barney models are done by a girl called Becky who was paid to detail some of the early catalogue models.
Just having a look through, of the medium and large eyes the only ones I can say I definitely didn't paint were 'N' which Nat did. The blue eye with lashes was when I was a little more practiced (and presumably had a half decent paintbrush...) so they flow much better. You can tell that the ones on the lippi K and the brown FH with the eye-crease L are a little more hesitant. Painting the eye depended/s on so much, not least the quality of the brush and the viscosity of the paint. Sometimes they just wouldn't be small 😂
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Post by astudyinscarlet on Apr 26, 2017 20:50:20 GMT
Sally (Annabel's mum, I think?) seemed to do most of the eyes from the 80s through the 90s and still into the 2000s she was doing some of them I believe. Whether other painters deliberately copied them I don't know but her style is quite distinctive, different to these styles pictured (I don't seem to have any decent photos of any currently though)
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Post by pinkmouse on Apr 26, 2017 20:57:54 GMT
I think Becky was given a model with sally painted eyes to copy
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Post by Charlotte on Apr 26, 2017 21:16:46 GMT
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Post by george on Apr 27, 2017 16:50:49 GMT
These are also 1985 eyes (the pony, Barley, has a mouth letter to confirm this, even though they look quite different to your '85s!)
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Post by astudyinscarlet on Apr 27, 2017 20:25:32 GMT
Some of the later catalogue models had those really bland 'bullseye target' eyes too (I think they were mostly only on black ones), that were just a white dot on a black circle on a brown circle if I remember rightly. They were a little creepy. Also if I remember this rightly too, Emma (I've forgotten her surname) who went on to run Magpie Models in the 80s/90s painted Julips for a while. Some of the vintage Julips' 'big eyes' are quite similar to the Magpie eye style of the 90s.
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Post by FarfraeFarm on Apr 27, 2017 21:08:51 GMT
Brilliant info everyone! <3
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Post by stacey on Apr 27, 2017 21:13:48 GMT
Did Kate or Sue paint at all? I remember Kate usually answering the phone when I first started ordering Julips, and I think Sue did a lot of the casting for a lot of years but I don't know who did the eyes around 2004-2008...?
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Post by stacey on Apr 29, 2017 17:29:31 GMT
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