Vaddadi Papaiah the painter of Chandamama stories

In India, Vaddadi Papaiah was a well-known artist. He was born on September 10th, 1921 in the Srikakulam district of Tamil Nadu. His parents were Mahalakshmi and Ramamurthy. His father taught art classes. His father taught him several drawing techniques. He was a young prodigy who began his artistic career at the age of 5. He drew "Lord Hanuman's" image after being influenced by Raja Ravi Varma's well-known Kodanda Rama painting. The Ramayana and Mahabharata, two well-known Hindu legends, were told to him by his father. He was greatly influenced by these legends, which also sparked his interest in Indian sculpture and art.

Papaiah received his instruction in painting from his father, a drawing instructor, and published his debut work in Andhra Jyothi in 1942. He began illustrating for Chandamama around 1961 and did so for many years, painting the front and back covers in the style of scenes from Sanskrit plays and Indian mythology. The periodicals Yuva and Telugu Naadi both used his covers.

The second book of the Chandamama Art Book, a two-volume collection, contains an entire section devoted to Vapa's artwork.

He was inspired by Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao to publish his photographs in his journal when he first began his artistic career. In the publications "Rerani," "Manjusha," "Abhisarika," "Andhra Patrika," "Bharathi," "Andhra Jyothi," etc., he began to illustrate, He worked as an artist in the magazine for 50 years thanks to his acquaintance with the editor of "Chandamma." Chandamama was an eight-language magazine at the time. The images of Papaiah became well-known throughout India. For the monthly magazine "Yuva," he also produced four or five drawings each month. Following ten years of his photographs being featured in "Swathi" periodicals, both weekly and monthly. One of India's illustrators of children's books, he was.

He was a writer as well as an artist. He has finished the final chapter of Sri Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao's "DeviBhagavatham" stories from "Chandamama." He also wrote the well-known tale "Vishnu katha".

Here are a few images of the paintings he drew.