HAPPY SOON TO BE 2012!!

WOW, another year has come and gone. 2012 is only a few days away and I hope all of you are enjoying this time of year.

Here in Florida we have had 80 degree weather every day with high humidity EXCEPT FOR TODAY!!! Our first"cold front" for the season, finally it's in the seventies and the humidity is lower than usual. I LOVE IT! wish it could be like this all year along.

Here is my piece for the ADO quarterly challenge, going GOTH!

She's a little goth girl that wants to make you smile by offering you her little purple bouquet. Her armature is wire and aluminum foil under stuffed and weighted cloth body with sculpted head, hands and boots.

She is 7.25 inches tall from her headpiece down to her sculpted boots. She is made of a blend of polymer clays then cured. Her make up is softly gothic washed and painted in heat set oils and acrylics. Her eyes are white jade that has been painted and varnished and given a smeared eyeliner look.

She is wigged in fine red mohair and given a sweet innocent little bob to accentuate her little chubby cheeks. She has freckles on her face and her chubby hands.Her little costume is all hand made in silks, tulle, netting, cotton and vintage laces. She wears striped black and cream stockings as well as the sleeves under her dress.

I wish you all the best for this coming 2012

Have a safe and wonderful New Year!!

p.s. I will be having a small GIVEAWAY for my followers in January

and I am putting the finishing touches on

a PDF CLASS so visit me soon!!

Best Wishes,

Rosanna

My Work for Peculiar Playmates Show

I have been wanting to post some pics but I wanted to wait for the show to get going before I showed my work. Here are a few pictures of the girls and their Peculiar Playmates. I will have some process pics on my flickr and deviant art accounts for those of you that like that stuff. If you can't make it to the show in person you can see the other awesome artists work at bearandbird.com.

and of course I had to throw in a creepy cutie!! Meet Agatha and Buzzy

Have a great week!!

Rosanna

Margaret Sweet and Dolly Boo!

Here are the final pictures of my Halloween artdoll  Margaret Sweet and her little Dolly Boo.

Margaret and Boo are now safe and sound at Bear and Bird Gallery awaiting their show dates.

So I think its okay to show her pictures now.

 

Margaret is one of my Creepy Cuties  and is a OOAK (0ne of a kind) original artdoll hand sculpted by me, Rosanna Pereyra, with no molds ever used or taken of her. 

She is approximately 6 inches tall and her little Dolly Boo is about 1 and 1/2 inches tall. They are both sculpted from polymer clay and both have hand painted glass eyes. 

Margaret's hair is made of mohair that I have dyed orange. All of my dolls are dressed in a mix of new, vintage and antique fabrics(in this case a hanky and a leather opera glove) from the early 1900's. Her shoes are leather. Her Candy Apple is sculpted and has tiny "razor blades" inside.

She comes with a wooden coffin that I have distressed and painted to look old with a sculpted skelly face and some paper roses. 

She can be purchased at Bear and Bird Gallery during the show dates or through me after the show ends. 

Thank You-

Rosanna

My Halloween Creepy Cutie "Poor Little Margaret"

Hi AGAIN!

 

Here are the WIP's I mentioned yesterday of my sad little clown Margaret. 

She is a Creepy Cutie which is a nice or mild way of saying she has passed on. My Creepy Cuties have a more exaggerated style which gives me an opportunity to express a less serious side of my art(very liberating). This was one of the inspiration photos behind the little clown doll and of course the name of the art show was the driving force for the whole idea.

 

I will post some more WIP pics of Poor Little Margaret tomorrow and this weekend I will post the finished doll. Come back soon!!

-Rosanna

Bear and Bird Boutique and ADO

Hi Everyone!! I'm getting ready for the Bear and Bird Gallery show this weekend. Here's a link to their site for those of you that want to attend the show(Thanks Amy).

Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery

I apologize to any of you that I haven't been able to answer back. I've been working on several projects at once for some future shows so I haven't been able to visit my online friends very much.  

Big Hugs to all my pals at ADO, here's my Creepy Cute Ophelia. This is my interpretation or vision of Ophelia after she was found dead in the shallow water among the flowers she licked to pick. She was placed gently on a hollow log until it was decided what would be done with her, was this a suicide over heartbreak or had she slipped and fallen to her death??

 

 

Sorry for the quality of the pics, I WILL learn how to take great pictures one day-but not today.

Rosanna

New WIP's(work in progress) and a Creepy Cutie Ophelia!

Hi again, I'm back with a few pics of what I'm currently working on. This first picture is a WIP of a piece I'm doing for the Bear and Bird gallery show Me!Me!Me! in April. This is NOT what I actually look like, she's a younger and better looking version of me: my alter ego. I have to finish the piece by this weekend!?@#AAAHHHHGG!! I love working under pressure!!

The next pic is a WIP for a great group I am now a member of ADO, Art Dolls Only,  its a challenge with a Shakespeare theme. I chose to do a Creepy Cute version of the Ophelia from Millais painting, she was such a tragic character in Hamlet and in real life. In my version she still wears the silver dress and the violet garland around her neck but she has already passed. 

As soon as the challenge is over she will be the first piece for sale on my new Etsy shop!!. I will sell most of my challenge pieces there, so please visit my shop when you can. 

This is not the finished piece at all-this is just a rough idea for me to plan out the materials and the pose that I will do. This is only her actual face which still needs a lot of work.

I'm also working on a little orphan boy!!

Bye for now-Rosanna

Parents Be Warned

PARENTS TAKE HEED

This creepy cutie is Emily-Louise.

She died.....of embarrassment.

After a rather rough start at her new school Emy-Lou was finally starting to fit in. She was invited to a social gathering at the most popular girls house. 

She carefully picked out her outfit and practiced the witty things she would say.

The day finally arrived and everything was going just as planned, when out of nowhere 

Emy-Lou's PARENTS showed up!!

They thought it would be nice to meet Emy-Lou's new little friends and spend some time with them.

Emy-Lou felt a rush of heat rising up in her as her parents blurted out all of her secrets and then asked her to wear the hat they had bought for her while traveling abroad.

They thought she was just the cutest thing!!

As the guests and the hostess stared in disbelief

Emy-Lou could feel the life slipping right out of her.

Next thing she knew, she was a ghost.

And to her horror she was still wearing the hat!!!