Dia de los Muertos and Marionette Challenge!

I am participating in 2 ADO challenges this month, The Marionette and Dia de los Muertos

(Day of the Dead) theme.

I made a polymer clay doll holding a tiny day of the dead

marionette made of paper-clay with tiny flowers made of cold porcelain.

That way I have both themes in one piece:)

Here are the WIP's-

the tiny doll is almost 2 inches tall

The cold porcelain flowers are tiny!

Here are the hands and boots as well as the painted face.

Next comes making a foam, cloth and wire body

Then the making of a dress with bloomers and stockings as well as wigging and making a mask for the girl and a small theatre as well.

Im already 90% done I just need to tie the skelly's strings to the girls fingers and add some details to the whole piece.

I will upload the photos tomorrow.

Have a great night!

Rosanna

Hi everyone, pardon the delay its just that summer was too hot for me to sculpt but I have been busy over at ADO, Art Dolls Only, working on an E-zine and a coffee table book for ADO.

Our committee has been working really hard to put this together and its great to finally be able to share a sneak peek of the E-zine with you!!

click the link> ADO preview and let me know what you think!

Uruguay wins Copa America!!

I undertand that many of you don't follow soccer but if you do...

Uruguay won Paraguay by 3-0 and establishes as the King of the Copa America

Thanks to player Luis Suarez and captain Diego Forlan for their great play in the final match of Copa America 2011.With this ,Uruguay wins Copa America a total of 15 times and this is the highest record in the history of Copa America.

I am so happy for Uruguay!!!

This is such an honor for all Uruguayans throughout the world.

To my family in Uruguay------Soy Celesteeee!!!!!!!!!

Painting with FIRE!

This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending an enameling workshop taught by Barbara Lewis of Painting with Fire. Her work is stunning and what a great teacher too! She supplied us with everything we needed to make lots of pretty enameled beads. We were a rowdy group of ladies working with some serious heat!

I learned so many techniques with Barbara and quickly lost my fear of having a torch sitting right in front of me.

I have taken one other class in metal jewelry before this and it was also with a fantastic teacher, Stephanie Lee of Homesteaders Metalsmithing. I think by using what I have learned in both classes I will be able to come up with some cute gifts for friends and family, you know its never too early to prepare for the holidays;)!

Barbara Lewis has a great blog with fabulous pictures and tutorials. She also sells all of the materials necessary to get you started on enameling. Also her book will be out soon, you can preview some of it on her site or at amazon.

A sample of Barbara's work from her book:

My workstation:

Here's a picture of the studio:

My beads:

I hope you all have a safe and wonderful 4th of July!!!!!

Rosanna

My Internet is back!

Sorry for the long pause on the blog. My internet has been crazy for a few weeks and every time I try to go on it drops. I call for help, it gets fixed but later it goes AGAIN. Very hard to get any work done.

Now that I've vented, I'm working on the sets for my kids book as well as some of the characters.

I am making the majority of it in 1/6 scale with a few pieces in 1/12th miniature scale. I think I'm going to need a bigger place to work in, lol. Are you reading this Hunny??

Here are a just a few pieces of the chess board my daughter(who's graduating high school next month!!!YAY!!) and I worked on for her senior art project. I was so proud to see her working in clay again.

(Bad pictures were taken on my old I phone, I still need a great new camera, any suggestions??)

Here it is her homage to the Alice in Wonderland movie of the 1950's.

She did the majority of the sculpting, I tweaked it here and there, she painted while I blushed skin and we costumed and wigged together. I showed her how to make the armatures and mix the clay. We then built a black base, covered it with miniature faux grass and flowers like a garden and placed the blue and white board in the center of the garden.

My kids stopped asking to sculpt or draw and paint with mom when they became teenagers, art wasn't fun anymore, so this was really special to me.

I realized I miss teaching.

As soon as I have some free time, I think I will teach sculpting and crafts again.

My best to all!!

Happy April & Inspiration!

HAPPY APRIL!!

Hi everyone, I hope you have all begun to feel the wonderful effects of Spring!

This is a time for renewal and rebirth. Nature's color palette changes.

I have done my spring cleaning and re-decorated my office space to make it

lighter and brighter. My projects have taken on a lighter palette as well.

I will share my new projects in a few weeks but for now I will leave you with

some inspirational sites that I love to visit and I know you will too

This is Katie Daisy, she is an amazing illustrator whose work makes me smile

Sabrina Ward Harrison captures dreams in her paintings

Papaya Art blog is a plethora of inspiration

Just click on the names above to visit these amazing artists!!

Have a wonderful day

Rosanna

March ALREADY!!

WOW, I can't believe how fast the days go by. I have been working on some Graphic Design projects as well as my book but here are a few pics of the past few weeks.

I won a lovely ATC painted card and tag from Sam Bonney of Cornish Contemporary for OWOH.

I scoured the beaches for shells but mainly came across these beautiful jellyfish, we also had a huge shark migration. YIKES!

I made a miniature baby in a nest.

I also visited one of my favorite stores, Anthropologie, to check out the new Spring window displays. They are so creative and a constant source of inspiration, and the clothing is adorable too!

and last but certainly not least a big warm WELCOME!! to all of my new friends and I hope everyone is having a great March so far!!

Rosanna