“Marabella the Lovely One” is quiet and shy. She spends her mornings picking wild flowers and sitting under shade trees watching the birds. She sits tall and perfect in her little red checked dress with buttons and cream colored bloomers. She’s got rag ribbons in her black hair which can…
Category: Black Children
Plush kitten with big baby blue eyes
At 7 inches small this little kitten with big baby blue eyes sits perfectly on top of books and dried flowers. She wears an oversized, removable pink ribbon and has tiny little gray whiskers. This little one is completely hand made, hand painted and is made of almost 100% recycled…
Ophelia African American Handmade Rag Doll
Ophelia Rose is an 18 inch doll with big, brown eyes and soft pink lips. Her hair is long and black. When sitting by a fan it whisks across her face lightly. She’s hand painted solid black but has gold and turquoise facial details. She’s got long eye lashes and…
Love Bianca Bunches African-American Rag Doll
‘Love Bianca Bunches’ is a handmade and hand painted rag doll that stands 9 inches tall and is wearing a red striped dress with a green checked scarf. Her scarf has a tiny button on it. Bianca has big brown eyes with long black eye lashes with gold star dust…
Sweet Gardenia Folk Art
Sweet, sweet Gardenia why won’t you smile? The earth offers the power of blossoms as the Heavens exhale in color Sweet, sweet Gardenia, why won’t you open your eyes? Crumbling soul, child of despair Please I say, open your eyes. Poem and painting are Copyright @ Sundrip.com All rights reserved…
A Joyful Child is a Rose
Art title: A Joyful Child is a RoseThis is a reconstructed Lee Bortin original. The figurine was discovered in disarray but there was no way I could leave her that way so I pulled out some clay, glue, paints and pens and went to work. I added yarn for hair…
Rochelle’s Dream – A Tin Foil Painting
. . A little Caribbean girl’s dream is played out on 4×3 inch tin foil. The foil was allowed to keep its “wrinkled” shape which adds texture and character to the piece. Painting Details: Gold leaf dress, brightly colored headdress, small black ponytail, tall white flowers, blue and purple sky,…
Mariah, African-American Ragdoll
Mariah, the Handmade African-American Rag Doll is now available in my shop on Etsy. Please see the sidebar for the Etsy link. SOLD Mariah was hand painted using oil paints which were allowed to cure. I then hand drew her facial features and painted them in acrylics. Her clothing is…
One Prayer – Child in Clay
I love clay especially when I can hand form something. I don’t have tools for clay work so I’m a bit limited. I still enjoy it but right now I’m uncertain how to proceed with this clay piece. I want to decrease the size of her nose and paint her…
Petunia
There’s a little egg shaped child, with big brown eyes, dressed in purple, standing by sunflowers. She calls herself Petunia.