Photo: Michael Zajkov Instagram
Brilio.net/en - Only two years after his first doll was made, Michael Zajkov from Russia had made his girls so famous that he already has 81.500 followers at Instagram in comparison to his 400s posts. His talented hands had created realistic girl dolls that they all look alive just like in the 1900s paintings.
The Kuban State University of Russia 2009 graduate had carried his Graphic Arts degree to work in a puppet theater from 2010 to 2013 while also attending a graduate school. The Art Dolls exhibition that held in Moscow on December 2013 had really brought up his girlsAnastasia, Antonina, Zoe, Nina and Xeniainto spotlight.
In the Instagram account he shows the process of doll making, up to every details from the eyelashes to skin freckles, from earlobes to mouth. For each doll he makes a set of head and a pair of hands and put them into a 50-80 cm high doll body with 13 joints that made it movable just like human.
Zajkov prefers to use Fimo and Cernit polymer clay for the dolls, hand-painted glass eyes he got made by a German artist and French mohair wig made from real human hair for the hair. The dolls are dressed in 1910-1915 French-style to add its antiquities. The details are so carefully thought here that the self-tailored dresses are made from batiste, voile, silk and antique laceall the fabrics used in France from the 20th century. He even made the leather shoes by himself, as shown in his Instagram videos.
"The inspiration to create my first doll was the work of Laura Scattolini and Rotraut Schrott," said Zajkov. It was 2010 when he first made it. After that hundreds of dolls were made with different emotion, character and personality. Zajkov is now receiving orders for these lovely dolls and ship them inside a pretty wooden box.
(Reported by Victoria Tunggono)
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