Category art doll

air dry clay, art doll, artist doll, assemblage, bones, children's attire, Day of the Dead, figurative sculpture, fish, fishing, hand sewn clothes, handmade doll, interactive art, Margarita Hernandez-Maxson, Mexican skeleton, skeleton, skeleton doll, surrealism, whimsical, wire skeleton

A skeleton boy goes fishing

Since I came to the USA I found many people that liked skeletons and Day of the Dead themes, among them are my friends Howard Park and Sarah Seip, owners of 4 Starr Frame Shoppe & Gallery, located in the…

Margarita H Maxson
October 25, 2013

art doll, art dolls, articulated doll, artist doll, assemblage, bones, cloth body, contemporary art doll, Day of the Dead, hand made clothes, handmade doll, Mexican skeleton, movable limbs, skeleton, skeleton doll, winged skeleton, wings

CUTE + CREEPY + COOL

As I mentioned on an earlier post, skeletons are very common things in Mexican life, not only for Day of the Dead, but as an everyday presence. One day I was talking to a very good friend, a New Bedford…

Margarita H Maxson
October 17, 2013

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

air dry clay, albine, angel, art doll, articulated doll, assemblage, blue dress, blue ribbon, clay doll, doll house, dream, green, handmade, La Doll, red roof, sand, sleeping doll, whimsical, white hair, wings

BREAKTIME

I got ready last September 2012 for my first solo exhibit after 4 years of retirement due to the birth of my son. I had very few time for finishing my work, only 3 months for filling a whole gallery.…

Margarita H Maxson
April 23, 2013

art doll, artificial hair, artist doll, assemblage, blond, buoys, clay doll, constellations, dollhouse, figurative sculpture, fishergirl, mixed media, paper-mache, sea, sky, starfish, Swedish, whimsical, white

Bernice and the starfish house / Bernice y la casa de las estrellas de mar

Starry Night I painted the above oil picture in 2007, the name was “Starry Night”, it depicted Bernice, an 8 year-old starfish hunter. She seems to be floating in the night sky, which is also the sea. I think is…

Margarita H Maxson
April 5, 2013

art doll, articulated doll, artist doll, clay doll, contemporary art doll, doll sculpting, handpainted face, La Doll, Mexican artist, movable limbs, sculpted face, white, winged doll, wings, wire armature, wool hair

THE DOVE

Everything has its opposite: Left and right, black and white, day and night, sugar and salt, etc,. When I started thinking about making a crow-like doll, I had in mind to make a dove-like girl all of the time, they…

Margarita H Maxson
February 28, 2013

air dry clay, art doll, artist doll, black, clay doll, contemporary art doll, crow, doll sculpting, figurative sculpture, La Doll, Margarita J. Hernandez-Maxson, movable limbs, painted boots, painted face, sculpted face, stripped stockings, winged doll, wings, wire skeleton, wool hair

The Crow

Once I dreamed about a hybrid creature, mix of a girl and a crow, her face was human, somehow I could make her features bird-like, design black clothing, even giving her wings. Also she had to be very elegant. Una vez…

Margarita H Maxson
January 31, 2013

air dry clay, art doll, articulated doll, children's attire, Day of the Dead, doll's doll, fish, fishing, horse, Jose Guadalupe Posada, Margarita J. Hernandez-Maxson, Mexican skeleton, Mexico, New England, siblings, skeleton doll, Victorian children, Victorian clothing for children

Skeleton Chronicles

As I said before, whenever I start missing Mexico I make Frida dolls or skeletons, you already meet the Fridas, now meet the skeleton, skeleton children! Como dije antes, cada vez que empiezo a extranar Mexico hago munecas de Frida…

Margarita H Maxson
January 19, 2013

art doll, artist doll, button jointed doll, cloth body, cloth doll, dough flowers, Frida Kalho, handmade, handpainted face, Mexican artists, Mexican painting, Mexico, needle felted hair, needle sculpted fingers, Oaxaca, stuffed doll, Tehuantepec, white dress, women artists, wool hair

Self portrait as tehuana, or Diego in my thoughts

Autorretrato como tehuana o Diego en mis pensamientos, Frida Kalho, 1943 This particular portrait is among my favorites, Frida’s work reveals maturity and mastery of the medium, we have to remember she was a self made artist, who learned from…

Margarita H Maxson
December 28, 2012

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