The brightest holiday of the year, Christmas, is about to knock on our doors and we prepare to welcome it with excitement and expectation of a miracle. In order for our expectations to be fulfilled, we need to create a Christmas symbol: traditional star decorations and a nativity scene with manger, decorations and figurines. It is a beautiful old tradition to put a nativity scene in your house at Christmas. This is a model ...

New Year, what kind of New Year will you be? We all believe it will be happy, and also fairy-tale and magical, like the textile sculptures of the rabbit - the symbol of the coming year 2023 by Mister Finch. Mister Finch, who creates flora and fauna inspired by nature and folklore, lives in a poetic, magical world: "People have always looked for magic, looked up to the stars and made wishes. Yes, I think that ...

Yumi Okita's original collection of insects is stunningly realistic. The textile sculptures are so lifelike and one of the butterflies seems to flap its wing and fly away. Using fabrics, fur and embroidery in her work, the artist has managed to capture the colours of nature, the variety of living forms and textures. Yumi Okita's three-dimensional embroideries are stunning, devoid of exaggeration or imitation. It is an author's view ...

A bell-shaped hat or cloche. The cloche (from the French word for bell) is a bonnet with a low, rounded crown and narrow, soft or hard margins. In the early twentieth century, the French fashion designer Caroline Roubaix created the hat, which came into fashion in the 1920s. For more than 50 years, Caroline Réboux held the title of Queen of Hat Fashion. The innovation of this ...

Victoria Ellis' signature response to the popular decorative style of the early 20th century presents us with bas-reliefs and sculptures made with great reverence for the original objects. The artist employs a special technique of 'carving' into clay, similar to the way openwork cut-outs are made from paper. Art Deco, sometimes called deco, is a style of fine art, architecture and design that first appeared ...

The author of the "Little Christmas Light" doll, María de Jesús Rodríguez Flores, is a member of the UNIDIA Art Doll Association. Technique and materials: polymer clay, old brass van. 7 cm I share with you this little Christmas baby.  

XIII Moscow International Exhibition ART OF THE PUPPET 9-11 December 2022 Gostiny Dvor, 4 Ilyinka Str. The exhibition is organized by the Cultural Foundation "WORLD CUPPETS" Website: artkukly.rf The universe of archaic and the archaic meta-universe. The exhibition of 2022 will go down in history as an event of a planetary scale - the demonstration to the general public of the world's first neural network puppets! Why is this presentation unique and super-sensational? We are all ...

Puppetry guru Susanna Oroyan (1942-2007) began making dolls in earnest in 1972 and was elected to NIADA in 1982. She mastered a variety of materials including polymer clay, paper clay and fabric. Her style of doll making was never static but was constantly evolving. In addition to making dolls, Suzanne has taught extensively in the USA and Australia, independently ...

Lesley Gail Keeble works with self-curing clay and paper papier-mache and gives textiles a major role in the creation of her dolls. Her dolls are far from the academic norms of plastic anatomy, but they are all the more lively and welcoming to the viewer. The creator moves forward without looking back, he ignores the opinion of critics and vain "philosophers", putting above all the process of creation and immersion...

The author of the doll "Sophie mold Roxy202201" Shvartsman Inna - a member of the professional union of authors of artistic dolls UNIDIA Movable articulated doll. The work is made in a single copy. Materials: polyurethane, Angora goat. 35,5 cm @schvartsman.dolls