Category paperclay

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

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