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.

Evealynn, emerging.....

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............

A little studio time....

I began her costume today....Using antique silk velvet in a rich, deep purple, I created pantaloons that are then covered with a piece of antique lace and a ruffle of metallic gold lace.

Her gown is also going to be in the rich silk purple velvet.  It really goes well with her eyes and her lips and contrasts nicely with her white face.  

I've added a piece of orange beaded work on her bodice and around her arms, which is a nice contrast to the purple..  

It was hard to stop today, but I only had a small amount of time.  More tomorrow.

Caution....do not enter....

So......Prince and I went into our little local town, an old sugar cane town, to make a deposit in the local bank.

He waited in the car while I ran inside.

I stood in line, looking around and I noticed a guy at the teller's window wearing big dark glasses....taking a long time.

When all of a sudden 3 policemen come running in with their guns pointed at him and yell for him to get his arms over his head.  They search him and force him face down on the floor.

Geez.......It appears that I am in the middle of an attempted bank robbery!

More police came running in and then they put their yellow tape everywhere and locked the doors and I'm stuck inside.

But this is Hawaii.......and the guy appeared to be either mellowly drunk or on drugs and really acted like it was normal to be lying face down in the middle of a bank with police pointing guns.

The police asked me questions, took my name and number and let me out the door......

to where my prince was wondering what was happening and would he have to come in and rescue me!

Very exciting!  Very Hawaii...no Robert de Niro....just some mellow local guy who thought he would try to rob a bank today.  And I was there.

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.