The Original Flapper Class Begins Tomorrow May26!

Hi everyone! My latest doll class, The Original Flapper, begins tomorrow at Aforartistic.com
There is still time to join in and learn how to make your very own art doll. I provide you with everything you will need to recreate The Flapper including a template, hundreds of step by step photos and clear instructions on a printable PDF. You can also ask me any questions for the duration of the class as well as send me progress photos for me to review and give advice on.
With what you will learn in my classes you can then create one of a kind personalized gifts for friends and family!! Think of all the red hat society ladies or seniors in your life that would get such a treat out of receiving one of these or getting a gift certificate for the class makes a great gift too!
Hope to see you there!
Hugs,
Rosanna

The Bear and Bird Gallery Show "Return of Stitch Wars" Starts tomorrow!!

I hope you locals can make it to the show tomorrow, it is going to be a lot of fun and there will be work from some amazing artists. Amanda, the owner of Bear and Bird Gallery, always strives to make each show unique and she helps us as artists step out of our routine and comfort zone with her themes, I am so delighted to have been included!
Oh and that's Mab Graves little wookie on the flyer!
I personally LOVE her art as well as so many of the other artists so I hope you get a chance to stop by!
featuring artwork created by the hands of

A. Pants; Allison Hoffman; Amanda Coronado; Andreanna DiBenedetto; Anthony Ruiz; Brenda Burton; Cari Corene; Carrie Filetti; Chelpanda; Chelsea Bloxsom; Cheryl Sleboda; Christine Benjamin; Crafty Dork; Croshame; Danielle Estefan; Danny Brito; Dianna Oates; Horrible Adorables; Kerry Tichenor; Kickiest Crafts; Kreisten Suskey; Lazystitch; Mab Graves; Mandy Jouan; MsBittyKnacks; Rosanna Pereyra; Scrumptious Delight; The Roving Hedgehog; Yummy Pancake; Zooguu and more!

Here is my entry on the right, a Bazine Netal little monster doll. She is a stuffed fabric doll with a hand sculpted polymer clay face. She also has a small cross and skull on her side showing she is a Little Monster series doll. She is saying goodbye to her Blue Monster brother on the left.

Exhibit opens during TATE’S Star Wars Family Fun Day Event

Saturday, May 14 Beginning at 11 am!!

Have an awesome weekend!

Rosanna

 

My Latest Class "The Original Flapper" starts soon!

The Original Flapper Class 

Start Date: May 26, 2016

Instructor: Rosanna Pereyra, Paper Clay Doll Artist

Available online at Aforartistic

Just click link above to go there!

Cost: $50 for 4 lessons

All Skill Levels

Lesson 1 -  May 26

Lesson 2 -  June 2

Lesson 3 -  June 9

Lesson 4 -  June 16

Once Lesson One opens, it remains available until this classroom closes  

Description:

In this class we will creating a really fun and unique character. 
Its time to step back and relive the magic of the jazz era, the Roaring 20's. Meet Ethel "Miss BeeHaven 1926" Fitzpatrick, the last living Flapper!

Ethel spends her nights in smokey, seedy jazz clubs around the world telling stories about the glory days. She was one of the first 
"girls" to cut off her hair, throw out that corset, and hike up her skirts to show off those ankles!

She smoked, drank and danced the nights away with the best of them. She also loves sharing photos and stories about the wild times she and her great friend Zelda Fitzgerald had!!

Ethel was even rumored to have dated a sexy bootlegger that served as the inspiration for Jay Gatsby!! 
Ever the wild and free Flapper, Ethel has traveled the world, had many adventures, poets have written about her, artists have painted her but none has ever managed to capture her heart enough to make a Mrs. out of her.

Join me in immortalizing her spirit by creating her likeness as a Paperclay Art Doll. In this class we will be creating the armature for a standing doll. Then we will be sculpting an elderly face, arms and legs in paper­clay. She will have a fabric body and will be gently posable. We will then paint and dress the doll as well as adding some fun details to her costume. Last will be a wig and a head piece.

This doll sculpture is approximately 17 inches tall. I am including a template for you to print out to make the class even easier to follow. This class is very forgiving, there is really no wrong way to sculpt an elderly character.

LESSON PLAN:

Lesson One: Create a strong wire armature, then sculpt the face, hands and legs.

Lesson Two: Painting the Face, Gloves, Shoes and Legs, Varnish­ing the Doll, and Assembling the Doll's body.

Lesson Three: Costuming the Doll

Lesson Four: Wigging and Accessories Time!

I hope you can join in on the fun!!
Rosanna

The Night Fairy is now in my Etsy Shop!

Here is my Night Fairy completed.
She is pale like the moon and cloaks herself in the night sky. She glides through the veil of night watching over all creations of the night. As she passes over the world with her dream catcher in hand she sets out to make the dark a little less frightening for the rest of us.

Her head, hands and legs are sculpted out of paperclay over wire armature and cloth body. She stands approx. 17 inches tall, 18 inches with black base and 20 inches with wings.
She has porcelain white skin with light blushing and several eye shadow colors. Her hair is short dark green with multi color feathers in her hair. Her costume is made up of 2 toned indigo silk and black silk chiffon with a black beaded bodice with the tiniest miniature stars scattered throughout. She has layers and layers of green and black feathers with flaming orange feathers on top and several purple and blue feather details throughout. She has paisley blue green and gold pantaloons under her skirt and sculpted black legs. Her wings are painted silk permanently attached to her armature and they, as well as the dolls arms, are gently posable.
She holds a dream catcher that is made from a vintage crochet piece with glass beads sewed on and adorned with silk pieces. She is permanently affixed to a black round base. Please visit my Etsy store for purchase details.

Thank you and have a great weekend!
Rosanna

Fairy Baby listed today!

Here is the listing I wrote about yesterday.

One of a kind Teal blue fairy/pixie baby with pale skin and white hair.

This is an approx. 6 inch one of a kind art doll. The head is hand sculpted from a blend of polymer clays then baked over an armature. It is then painted with oil paints and acrylic washes to give it a natural muddied very fair baby skin tone. Hand dyed tibetan lambs wool is then applied lock by lock for the hair. The body is soft cotton that has been weighted and swathed in different layers of cotton and gauze that I have hand dyed. The baby wears Teal and is adorned with feathers, a sea shell, natural fibers and twine. 

OPTION:If you would like the baby to be a girl please specify and I will be happy to add flowers and Swarovski crystals on the side of the head. 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/109715674/one-of-a-kind-teal-blue-fairypixie-baby?ref=shop_home_active_1

Completed!!Dia de los Muertos and Marionette Challenge!

Here they are ready for the show!

This one of a kind little puppet master is 7.75 inches tall from the bottom of her boots to the top of her handmade lace head piece that is covered in flowers, pom poms and crystals.

Her hair is fine english viscose.

The paper theater is made in an old fashioned style with 3D paper panels and is 4.5 inches tall.

It has been laser printed onto heavy card stock and shaded with acrylic washes.

The skelly doll is strung with red thread and can be moved.

The paper mask is also laser printed onto heavy card stock and decorated with paper flowers and silk ribbon.

She will be listed on etsy this Sunday.

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Rosanna

OWOH 2011 is HERE!!

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog. My name is Rosanna Pereyra and I am an artist and art doll maker. I live in sunny South Florida with my hubby and kids as well as two pugs and a nutty german shepherd. I am so happy that you decided to visit my blog for the final OWOH event!

The One World One Heart event is a great way to meet & greet bloggers from all over! There is a bonus for visiting each participant, a gift or door prize for one winner! All you have to do is have an active blogging account, leave a comment & you'll have the opportunity to win my one of a kind pixie fairy art doll.

The winner will be chosen through an online random number generator on February 17th.

My gift to you is a 5.5 inch one of a kind art doll. I only create these dolls for very special occasions such as this. The head is hand sculpted from a blend of polymer clays then baked over an armature. It is then painted with oil paints and acrylic washes to give it a natural muddied baby skin tone. Hand dyed tibetan lambs wool is then applied lock by lock for the hair. The body is soft cotton that has been weighted and swathed in different layers of cotton and gauze that I have dyed. The doll is not removable from the blanket. It can be displayed as is or hung from its blue cord from a hook or a little branch.

It will arrive with its certificate.

*The winner can request that little flowers be added onto the side of the head to make it look like a little girl.

Have a look around, stay a while and thank you again for visiting me.

I hope you come back often.

Good Luck and God Bless,

Rosanna Pereyra

Hi again! I hope everyone is doing great, I was working on the kids back to school shopping when a friend asked me some background info on the works I just did for Peculiar Playmates and I realized I didn't add any info and so I would like to apologize for that.I get caught up in the process and then the pictures and forget that you can't read my mind.

This is a long post but here it goes...

The girls I make are in that moment in time when we are still innocent but are aware of the dangers of life. They still want to believe in fairytales, true love and happy endings. They see the reality of everything around them a little bit different than others do. They are always thinking and dreaming.

They believe in "magic" or the supernatural, they have a sense of humor, a moral compass, but they are still learning and falter at times!

Often alone because they are this way, they choose to care for things that maybe others wouldn't value.

Nina sees a life growing inside of the egg, it is the symbol for the universe and creation, she knows what she holds in her hands is precious, so she treats it that way. Her little hat represents a halo for her good intentions, and her blue dress represents the heavens, she is bare foot because she wants to be well grounded and connected to the earth.

Veronica has a dilemma, a common one, she has grown to care for her little snails but her curiosity for the "fruits of knowledge" is quite strong. She has a book for cooking escargot(sorry I didn't photograph it well, but she has it) and as a student of life she wonders if its worth it. Could she bring herself to sacrifice one of them in her quest for knowledge and experience. (snails represent eternity and labyrinths her laced up green ribbons are doubt)

Lila is the one with the cephalopod on her head (they represent cleverness). She wears the colors of innocence and appears to be playing a child's game of tea party, but by the style of the clothing you can see that she is changing, no longer a child. She is eager to know what comes next and is reading her tea leaves as well as Cely's to maybe catch a glimpse of what the future holds.

Maggie is the archetypal nurturing good mother and sacrificing soul. She is all in white representing purity, and silk for strength, her pink sash is her "cord" connecting her to this world. She holds her delicate babies on a silk string so she can carry and protect them until they are ready to enter this world. She stands very still and allows them to practice walking on her and spreading their wings until they are ready for flight. She wears a fur shawl to cover them from the harsh weather and hide them from danger. Her silk dress spun from the cocoons that they have discarded and left behind to remind them that she is a part of them and they can always come home. She treasures them

Agatha and Buzzy are what they are, creepy cute and funny!!

Agatha is that little mischievous child, that wants what she wants, when she wants it is NOW!!!

Buzzy was once a feared,scavenger and hunter, but she has been worn down by this child to the point that she allows herself to be dressed up in ribbons and bows and taken on walks on a tiny string leash which she could easily rip apart with her beak, but ughh, why bother!!

Buzzy's feathers represent TRUTH, truth is, I know at certain times in my life i have been each of these characters, Maybe you have been too??

hope you enjoyed the insight!!

-Rosanna

BTW-Here's an article on NBC Miami featuring a picture of a little pixie I made named

Rosemary Jane!

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

Alice in Wonderland at Last! (95% complete)

I am honored to present my Alice in Wonderland

Like I always say, I apologize for the quality, I am a poor photographer but I try

(picture 2 and 5 enlarge, the rest don't want to cooperate)

I usually don't take or show pictures of my commission work because some of my collectors prefer their pieces to be private.

Except for this one, YAY!. A close friend asked that I not post it until today so it can remain a surprise. Here's a quick lookie-loo at my Alice. She is 95% complete, just needs her hair done and a hat of her own(she borrowed this one from another sculpted girl). That will be finished and handed over tonight. Alice is almost 10 inches tall and a full sculpt except for the elbows and shoulders so that she can gently pose her arms. I was told she will be holding a little pig in a blanket so I sculpted the hands in a pose that will allow for that.

I had a great time putting together all of the bits and pieces to make her special. I love, love details! I could have easily gotten carried away with this one, where talkin' furniture, pottery, scenery, the works! Luckily the request was for just the doll.

Anyway, back to work!! I have a gift to make for a friend and then some show pieces to start on.

Bye for now,

Rosanna