Category cloth body

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

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

artist doll, button jointed doll, cloth body, cloth doll, Fine Arts Painting, Frida Kalho, hand made clothes, hand painted face, Margarita J. Hernandez-Maxson, Mexican artist, Mexican women artists, Mexico, muslin dolls, needle felted hair, Oaxaca, paperclay accesories, surrealism, Tehuantepec, wool hair

Self portrait with thorn necklace and dead hummingbird

Self portrait with thorn necklace and dead hummingbird/Autorretrato con collar de espinas y colibri muertoFrida Kalho, 1940 This painting is very impressing, it talks about Frida facing divorce, loneliness, and physical pain; later she remarried Diego Rivera in December 1940.…

Margarita H Maxson
December 24, 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

art doll, articulated doll, artist doll, baby blanket, braided hair, button jointed doll, cloth body, cloth doll, Frida Kalho, hand made clothes, hand painted doll, hand painted face, hand sewn clothes, hand sewn dress, hand sewn joints, handmade, handsewn doll, Margarita J. Hernandez-Maxson, Mexican artist, Mexican dolls

The Frida Series

I started thinking about the possibility of making dolls out of paintings. The first one I did was the Frida Kalho painting “The two Fridas” . The dolls were separated and are now in private collections in Mexico, they did not stay together, sometimes…

Margarita H Maxson
December 18, 2012

American dolls, art doll, artist doll, cloth body, handpainted doll, handpainted hair, inspired art doll, Izannah Walker, miniature dolls, reproduction dolls, sculpted head, Victorian dolls

THE MAKING OF MINI BLACK IZANNAH WALKER INSPIRED DOLL

My idea was just to have lots of fun and explore the beauty of Izannah Walker dolls, in a small size, because my 2 year-old-boy is too much action now. I started designing the doll, and when I had to…

Margarita H Maxson
April 7, 2011

American dolls, art doll, artist doll, cloth body, handpainted doll, handpainted hair, inspired art doll, Izannah Walker, miniature dolls, reproduction dolls, sculpted head, Victorian dolls

Making mini Izannah Walker doll

I love Izannah Walker dolls, they have a kind of peace in their faces. This time I wanted to make a mini Izannah, she measures 3 3/4 inches, and I followed the procedure of making a stuffed cloth body, and…

Margarita H Maxson
March 12, 2011