Category animal dolls

air dry clay, animal dolls, art doll, assemblage, cats, children's drawing, doll house, doll making, doll sculpting, interactive art, ladder, miniature dolls, mixed media, mother, paperclay, sculpted face, siblings, surrealism

THE MOTHER

I thought of posting this story for Mother’s day, but it sounded so repetitive that I let all summer pass before I came back to writing. This piece is called “The Mother”, and it was inspired from my son’s early…

Margarita H Maxson
September 24, 2013

animal dolls, art doll, articulated doll, artist doll, braided hair, button jointed doll, cloth body, Frida Kalho, hand made clothes, hand painted face, handmade, Margarita J. Hernandez-Maxson, Mexican artist, Mexican dolls, Mexican painting, Mexican women artists, Mexico, movable limbs, muslin dolls, needle felted hair

Autorretrato con monos

Self portait with monkeys, 1943 / Autorretrato con monos, 1943 This was one of the 5 pictures I chose for making a Frida Kalho doll -with monkey dolls-. She painted herself in the company of four monkeys, for Frida they…

Margarita H Maxson
December 20, 2012

animal dolls, art doll, artist doll, bunny, cat, cloth doll, Folk Art doll, nautical, needle sculpted, rabbit, seaside, stripped shirt

Cloth Doll Explorations: Cats and Bunnies

After my first attempt at doll making I tried to design something from my own. I picked up the figure of a cat and a bunny, and humanize them a little bit, so they could have legs and arms attached…

Margarita H Maxson
April 15, 2010