A moment with my Vampire....

I found time today to visit with my vampire.   

We are leaving Hawaii on Wednesday, so my moments in the studio are precious......

Tomorrow I have to start putting things away.... sigh......

Vampire Lady will have to wait several months to get gowned.  

I'm envisioning a cloak with the lining of mirror mosaic shards....

another vampire emerging....

A new emergence.........

and the thirst begins.....

Paris, France  1820

......she slipped out of the small theater door.......finding her way through the dark winding streets, quiet now in the hours before dawn.  The risk was huge but he promised that he would protect her.  If only she could make it to the ship and to safety in time.... she must be there, he said, before the first rays of the morning sun.   The night was still and the air heavy.

She felt her heart beating wildly as she began running into his arms.

Hands around her throat....intense red rimmed eyes bearing down on her....and then the pain.

Realization fills her eyes and escapes from Evealyn's throat.....

"I am...we are... forever now".....and the thirst begins.

Purple silk velvet and tangerine pearls....

Her gown is looking dark blue here, but it's really a rich royal purple silk velvet.  The embellishments are fresh water pearls in a wonderful tangerine color with added beads in fushia.

I added fine silk black netting around the edges of her skirt.

Tomorrow I will add............

An underlying power......

I created my palette today....randomly pulling out antique lace, silk velvet, beadwork and chenille tassels from  my piles of treasure.   I almost always use only antique fabric and trim. There is a quality to these pieces that is undeniable.... and besides, I love the energy....the imagined story that is embedded within each piece.

I am surprised at the colors that came together.  I thought she would be in golds...or blacks...or

even whites.  Never did I imagine her in reds, maroons and purple.  

Perhaps she was a dancer from the Moulin Rouge...or maybe a Spanish Princess in the 1800s.  

I am waiting patiently for her to whisper her story in my ear.

I have created a mosaic of irridescent glass, in shades of red and maroons, containing a slight flash of gold, on the underneath side of her gown.  I like that this flash of light and color is hidden, when she is seated.  It is her secret power.  It is from this hidden source that her thirst comes.  Her vampire thirst.

and now a body.....

Her form is now done and drying.  I used plaster of paris strips over wire and foil.  Once the plaster is dry and hard, I will add a layer of apoxie sculpt and then create her costume....the most fun part.

I'm really enjoying this piece.  I wonder...as she takes form....in what century she lived and when and how she became....vampire.

Opps........

Well, I had an idea to put a wax coating on my vampire's head.......but

I only had beeswax .......and now she looks like she has yellow jaundice!! 

Lesson learned....beeswax doesn't work unless you are creating a bee.

Hopefully the wax will melt off when I put the head back into the oven. 

and then I'll do something else......I don't have a clue what though........

Have you read.......

"Twilight"?

   

I've just finished the first book and am well into the second one.

Little bubbles of inspiration are rising within me. 

 

Hmmm.......could I sculpt and paint and create a beautiful vampire?  I find myself thinking a lot about this....what would she look like....could I get that wonderful edgy-ness to the piece.

Well....I'm going to try and I'm more inspired than I've been in years.