Category handmade

assemblage, bindrunes, figurative sculpture, guardians, Hand modeled, handmade, Margarita Hernandez-Maxson, mask, Mexican artist, mixed media, owl, owls, plaster, Plaster of Paris, runes, sculpture, surrealism, texture, whimsical

OWLS AS PROTECTORS

I decided to change the name of my blog, etsy shop, and brand. Many of the people that used to find me on Google or other searchers are missing me, the former name of the blog was www.josephine-artifacts-collection.blogspot.com,…

Margarita H Maxson
October 10, 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, 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

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

air dyr clay, art doll, articulated doll, artist doll, button jointed doll, clay doll, cloth doll, hand sewn dress, handmade, La Doll, rock clay, sculpted doll, sculpted feet, sculpted hands, white hair, wool hair

Cloth and Clay

I had a doll living in my mind for 3 years. She came real just 5 months ago, when I started actually making her. To start with, I made her head in rock clay. This step took me nearly 2…

Margarita H Maxson
September 8, 2012

African American, art doll, Black Mammy Doll, cloth doll, ethnic doll, Folk Art doll, hand painted doll, handmade, needle sculpting

The Legend of Black Mammy Doll. Final chapter.

As I said in an earlier post, making Black Mammies started to come up to my mind more and more until I designed the pattern and got one, which I gave to my dear sister-in-law as a Christmas present. Then…

Margarita H Maxson
August 23, 2012

army, art doll, artist doll, button jointed doll, cloth doll, crusader, handmade, helmet, Hospitaller Knights, knight, mail chain, medieval, military, needle sculpting, paperclay, shields, Templar Knights

CRUSADER DOLLS, THE LAST CHAPTER

It took me months to figure out how I was going to make shields. Finally we (my quality control manager and I) got a solution, and we made very strong, sturdy shields following the traditional technique of paper-mache plus air-dry clay.…

Margarita H Maxson
July 19, 2012

army, art doll, artist doll, button jointed doll, cloth doll, crusader, handmade, helmet, Hospitaller Knights, knight, mail chain, medieval, military, needle sculpting, paperclay accesories, shields, Templar Knights

Crusader Dolls Part IV

Yeah, they are back, and they are ALMOST done. These guys got their helmets and clothes! Si, han regresado, y CASI estan listos. Ya tienen cascos y ropa! Hospitaller Knight/Caballero Hospitalario English Knight/Caballero Ingles Templar’s helmet/Casco templario I finished the…

Margarita H Maxson
February 1, 2012

African American, art doll, Black Mammy Doll, cloth doll, ethnic doll, Folk Art doll, handmade, handpainted features, needle sculpting

The legend of Black Mammy Doll

Hi there everyone, I have left alone my crusader dolls, letting the clay and textile paint get dry before I kept moving, and I started a new project, that one of designing my black Mammy doll. There are a lot of…

Margarita H Maxson
January 25, 2012