PHOTO SHOOT: Drappeggio Bagnata

SOMETIMES INSPIRATION HAS TO PERCOLATE BEFORE WHATEVER YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE TAKES FORM.

Let me nutshell this: So several years ago I saw some ancient marble sculptures in Italy. They depicted women; serene and otherworldly, gazing mysteriously through wet, draped fabric. The official tour guide told us sculpting in this manner, creating this believable and magical illusion, indicated the highest mastery level for sculptors. He called it, “Drappeggio Bagnata (Italian for wet drapery). I registered his words drifting around behind me without taking my eyes off the art. That was in 2005. In the meantime, I never, ever forgot how they looked and how I felt about them.

While these images are more modern, in some ways, they still seem like images that would be hard to assign a specific date. Looking ahead, I have an old silk military parachute to utilize for an upcoming addition to the series. Stay tuned!

Wet Drapery photoset blog entry on LittleVillageMag.com  

(click this link to see the entry - with more photos- on the Little Village Website where I craft a weekly Style Blog)

Photo Shoot: Queen of Hearts (Heather)

       


         “The Queen 
had only one way of setting all difficulties, 
  great or small. 
       “Off with his head!” she said 
without even looking round.” - Lewis Carroll

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 Queen of Hearts

An original concept photo

shoot (make-up, styling,

photography) by Tonya Kehoe 

             This photoshoot was inspired by the following:

• A heart-shaped baking form I thrifted for fifty cents last month. I wanted to reflect a face in it instantly!
• My petticoat and crinoline collection
• Japanese Theatre makeup 
• European Infanta Jesus religious sculpture (Italian and Spanish)
• Doll lashes and doll cheeks
• my Swarovski-handling white gloves
• My vintage hair net collection. I love netting.
• Heather's DOLL FACE! 

All photos copyright Tonya Kehoe 2013 

No photoshop/post-production used in any of these images. 

PHOTO SHOOT: Winter Sweetheart (Heather)

Creamy tulle and gathered ruffles.

 Doll cheeks and thick fringe lashes; 

this is a cold January's winter sweetheart.

An original photo shoot by Tonya Kehoe-Anderson

Photos, Styling and Make-up by Tonya Kehoe-Anderson

Model/Muse: Heather Atkinson (www.heatheratkinson.com)

all images copyrighted 2013 Tonya Kehoe-Anderson

Ladies Who Lunch

Getting to go to the TJ Maxx with Heather and I is kind of like hoping to win the lottery. You really want to, you think it would be super fun and everyone would be totally jealous if it came true! (Just play along). Here are 13 reasons why a day off with us is the most fun anyone could actually ever have.

1. Heather wears her pirate skull scarf AND locates Nelly's Apple Bottom Parfum in about 5 nanoseconds after entering the store. Good thing they have this brand on lock-down.

Double up on Ed Hardy Deodorant anti-stank solids for her two husbands (SJM and David always get matching personal hygiene items. Natch.

I dangled this sandalwood soap-onna-rope above her head so as to mesmerize her and to hypnotize her into buying me lunch. I was hungry for pho soup and it was only 9:35am. "You will get verrrrry generous....."

This forest scented soap had something addictive added to it because it kinda turned my friend into a fiend. "SNNNNOOOORRRTTT. Oh let's look at dresses. Snnnnnoooort."

 I can only keep one eye fully open as I breathe it in....feels so good. But I'm kinda gettin' 'leepy.

This should fit. It is hanging in the 14-16 part of the rounder rack. But it says size 2. Well, *where* it is hanging supersedes any dumb ol' size tag sewn in the garment, right? Goody!

 These are vegan?! 

Hip Hip Hooray. Ho. Hey. Ho. 

Heather struggles here to reconcile her love for the old south labels and Civil War  pickled egg treats with how gross the picked eggs must surely taste. I said I would eat them. I love pickled food. She said that they would only be a click above eating them out of a bar jar where some TB-encrusted trucker arm had been fishing around for pickled eggs about a million times. Sure, I replied, these would be more sanitary. No one bought them. I was sorely tempted however we realized it was 5 min to 11 and we needed to meet another pal for lunch. No eggs for me.

Melissa and Heather did not know I was taking this photo at the time. But they will know after they read this blog post. I am not drinking anything until I get my avacado boba tea! (see below)

A delicious vietnamese treat! Avacado boba tea with tapiocas!

Shrimp Pho. Insanely good. 

Before we left the restaurant, I treated Heather to an arm (gel pen) tattoo! It is of a "suicide tooth" - we made a pact at lunch that before we got left at a county nursing home when we are 100 years old we would craft a suicide tooth to sneak in and chomp as they wheel us through the door. Kind of like the astronaut's cyanide capsules. This tattoo is about 5 inches high. After lunch, she had to go to the vets office. So that was probably awesome for them to see. I told her I can draw it again if she ever wants it on there permanently. (Who wouldn't, right?)