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

2011 OWOH WINNER is!!!

Hi everyone!!

I went to RANDOM.org at 8:37pm Eastern time and I am happy to announce that

THE WINNER IS.....................

#198 JOANNE - Vintage Dragonfly!!!!!!!

I can't begin to tell you how great the OWOH events have been for me.

It was so amazing to reconnect with some old friends and make some new ones.

I really had a wonderful time visiting different blogs everyday

I have to admit I didn't get to all of them YET, but I will!

I'm off to contact Joanne!

I hope you all have a great 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