ARTICLE - CREEPY REALISTIC VAMPIRE BABY DOLLS ARE IMMORTAL

Creepy realistic vampire baby dolls are immortal

Artist Bean Shanine takes ultra-realistic Reborn baby dolls and turns them into creepy creatures from beyond humanity.

by Amanda Kooser

January 29, 2013 10:58 AM PST 

 

 

 The vampire Reborns all have lifelike paint jobs, but their otherworldly origins show in their pointy teeth and red eyes. There's something very unsettling about these dolls. If you get one, you might want to sleep with one eye open.
While Shanine specializes in little bloodsuckers, she has also branched out into other areas, like zombie babies. She even created a set of "Avatar" twins with blue faces and bodies.
Owning your own monster baby doesn't come cheap. Prices vary depending on the size of the Reborn baby, whether it has open eyes, and whether it has rooted hair. Preemies start at $650. If you want to bypass the terrible twos, then a 4- or 5-year-old monster child will cost you at least $1,500. Still, that's cheaper than a real child and you don't have to start a college fund.

ARTICLE - ARTIST CREATES LIFE-SIZED CHOCOLATE BABY HEADS

Artist creates life-size chocolate baby heads

By Liz Stansfield, Jan 2, 2013

 If you're hoping to stick to a new year diet, these cakes will help you well on your way to avoiding the sweet stuff.

Artist Annabel de Vetten has created a range of life-size chocolate baby heads for chocoholics to get their teeth into.
Annabel, 41, creates the terrifying treats using melted chocolate poured into moulds. She then hand-paints each head with edible food paint to give the babies life-like features.

The cake artist from Birmingham first made the heads after receiving a commission with a specific request to 'shock people' (congrats Annabel, you certainly did it!).

But they somehow proved very popular, and Annabel has received numerous orders for the £35 heads, which each weigh just under one kilogram and contain a whopping 5,000 calories.

"The look of the heads is quite controversial but if everybody liked them then it wouldn't be as fun to make them," says Annabel.

"At first, I found them a little bit disturbing but the more of them you see and create, the more you just get used to them. I was asked to make them to shock people and that's what I've done so from that point of view, I've accomplished the mission.

"It's quite surprising really but I don't actually like chocolate that much and there had to be a lot of experimenting to get the heads exactly how I wanted them to be but now that I have I think they're great."

If you're unsure how you would actually get into the chocolate head, think of it as an Easter egg - a light tap should do it. Or, as Annabel helpfully suggests, whack it with a hammer.

Nice.

ART - DOLL PARTS FACE

Doll Parts Faces

Freya Jobbins via Co.Design

Australian artist Freya Jobbins takes doll parts and recycles them into awesome/terrifying new faces. It's a little reminiscent of Sid's toys in the first Toy Story. (This is actually one of the less scary ones; see more at Co.Design.)

NEWS - ZOMBIE DOLLS BECOME LATEST CRAZE AMONG COLLECTORS

Now, Zombie dolls become latest craze among collectors

London, Wed, 02 Jan 2013 

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London, Jan. 2 (ANI): An eccentric artist from Washington is making a living by creating incredibly spooky zombie dolls - that are proving a hit around the world.
From vampire-like teeth to pale skin and piercing red eyes, Bean Shanine, 32, is putting up to eight hours a day to make her zombie dolls.
Shanine insists that she receives almost entirely positive comments from people on the internet about her dolls.
The mother-of-four, who lives in Washington, USA, made her first zombie doll in 2010 as a gift for a friend, who takes part in an annual zombie walk in Vancouver, Canada.
But she soon turned her hobby into a business - The Twisted Bean Stalk Nursery - and sells the creepy creations for up to 930 pounds to collectors in the UK and all over the world, the Daily Mail reported.
She said that each doll needed about 30 layers of paint and then she had to bake the doll after every single layer.
She added that after the doll's are painted she has to assemble them, add any finishing touches and root hair, and if the hair is rooted that takes about eight hours or painting the hair takes about six. (ANI)

NEWS - NOW ZOMBIE DOLLS BECOME LATEST CRAZE AMONG COLLECTORS

Now, Zombie dolls become latest craze among collectors

London, Wed, 02 Jan 2013 ANI

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London, Jan. 2 (ANI): An eccentric artist from Washington is making a living by creating incredibly spooky zombie dolls - that are proving a hit around the world.
From vampire-like teeth to pale skin and piercing red eyes, Bean Shanine, 32, is putting up to eight hours a day to make her zombie dolls.
Shanine insists that she receives almost entirely positive comments from people on the internet about her dolls.
The mother-of-four, who lives in Washington, USA, made her first zombie doll in 2010 as a gift for a friend, who takes part in an annual zombie walk in Vancouver, Canada.
But she soon turned her hobby into a business - The Twisted Bean Stalk Nursery - and sells the creepy creations for up to 930 pounds to collectors in the UK and all over the world, the Daily Mail reported.
She said that each doll needed about 30 layers of paint and then she had to bake the doll after every single layer.
She added that after the doll's are painted she has to assemble them, add any finishing touches and root hair, and if the hair is rooted that takes about eight hours or painting the hair takes about six. (ANI)