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, the NEW ONE is www.josephinemaxsonfineart.blogspot.com New name, same content. Decidi cambiar el …
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. I took the challenge and the new pieces started revealing themselves, one of them was …
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 experience rather than instructors or formal education. Often she followed her husband’s technical advice, later …
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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 stand for polygamy. Her husband Diego cheated on her frequently, and she paid him with …
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 life is like that. I went on making the next dolls, Fridas, of course, I …
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 months. Tuve una muneca en mente por 3 anios, apenas se volvio real hace 5 …
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 I reduced the pattern to 80% and 60% smaller sizes and got a bunch of …
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. Me tomo meses el encontrar una manera de hacer los escudos. Finalmente mi jefe de …
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 helmets in 3 steps, letting the paper clay dry between stages, it is easier. The …
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 ideas and actual mammy dolls all over the internet, many of them really expensive, specially …