Captain America Everyday Cosplay + a giveaway

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EVERYDAY COSPLAY:

A couple weeks ago the lovely Megan, aka The Nerdy Girlie, came up with a couple Everyday Cosplay for Captain America Winter Soldier. I LOVED it! She came up with great outfits! My birthday is in April and since the new film comes out in April (4th) ive decided to do Captain America as my little birthday theme. Which means having my very own "birthday cosplay outfit" and having little Captain America décor at the restaurant ill be dining at. IM SO EXCITED!
heres what I came up with:

Captain America Cosplay 2 by rosa de los reyes featuring an antique necklace

As you can see, im pretty girly. haha. im obsessed with sweater crop tops! Mostly everything above is from Forever 21 (my favorite clothing store). Except for the black boots, theyre from Target (second favorite) and the Captain America necklace. I stumbled upon that necklace on etsy and im totalllllly gonna be rockin it on my birthday :)

make sure to check out Megan's Everyday Cosplay of Captain America! She also has a bunch more Everyday Cosplay's you need to check out!!!
She pretty much rocks my socks off annnnnnd is the queen of all things nerdy!

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GIVEAWAY:

Amanda from Little Tranquility came up with this lovely giveaway that I am so happy to be apart of! You have a chance to win a Diana F+ camera, instant back & 20 pack of film! Head over to Amanda's giveaway post, check out the rest of the details, all the lovely bloggers who contributed and enter to win!
You can also enter here on my blog using the Rafflecopter below :) GOOD LUCK!




a Rafflecopter giveaway


hugs!


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Rosa

Disneyland - February

this valentines and presidents weekend was spent at the happiest place on earth!

I truly love Disneyland so much that I decided to........

get an Annual Pass!

its seriously worth the money. I get to pay monthly and get discounts on food and merch!

I got to finally ride the Cars ride for the first time!

I think its probably one of the best!

I was so amazed at the whole entire ride, how it looks so much like the animation.

I was highly impressed! I couldn't contain my amazement..

there were a ton of "omg" "wow" "are you serious!?" haha.

the trip was so much fun! the only downfall was the fact that I got NO sleep at all.

like, AT ALL. no exaggeration. so I was completely dead the whole day.

another, I will be wearing comfortable shoes next time. my feet and legs are

still killing me. haha. and last but not least.. I will be purchasing one of those

portable chargers. I don't know why but Disneyland has this sort of force

field that does not let you have reception (no matter what carrier you have) and drains your battery!

at the end of the night I ended up with 1% on my phone. I only used it for a couple

hours in the morning and that was it and saved the 5% to take photos of the fireworks. haha.
So, i didn't get to take pictures of a lot of things!
Disneyland, please fix this.

I think they should definitely offer some sort of wifi, I don't even care

if I have to pay a tad more.. let me use my phone!! haha.

i want to go back next month but i know for sure i will be going back in April!

For my birthday :) yay!

 So, i have been sucking so bad at blogging lately.
i hit some sort of "bloggers-block" and then i got super sick
which made me not want to do anything at all.
Sorry!
I should be posting more of my drawings on here but you can find all of them
on my instagram : @rosaclementine

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Rosa

Sketch Tuesdays

If you live in the Bay Area and love art.. I suggest you get your booty to the next Sketch Tuesdays! I found out about Sketch Tuesdays through one of the artist I met at the Benefit for Jamie Baker. Sketch Tuesday is held once a month at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. A bunch of local artist are invited to create and post their work and sell them (similar to the benefit). While there last night I found out that anyone can pretty much sketch (just cant sit in the "invited" area) haha. so im hoping to get to draw next time I attend! :)

I had such a great time! everyone was just so chill, drinking a beer, meeting different artist, buying art and just having a good time. I got to purchase art from 3 different artist! Josh Thurman (Mummy with the Mustache), Ben Walker (a caricature of ME) and Donta Santistevan (R2D2 print and Coffee Cup print). I also snagged a *free* drawing and I wish I could remember who the artist was =/

You can find out more info and when the next Sketch Tuesday is -- here!
Hope to see you there! :)


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Rosa

Mary & Max

My inspiration for Animation comes from a handful of different things. One of them being, films. Heres a film that I want to talk about and also recommend to you all. Its a Clay-Animation film called Mary and Max.

Mary and Max - is about a young 8 year old named Mary Daisy Dinkle who lives in Australia and a 44 year old man named Max Horowitz who lives in New York City. Mary and Max become friends through letters and through two decades they share each others lives. Im not going to lie, I cry at the end, every time. =/ Im not giving anything away. haha. I actually found out about the film while stumbling through Netflix a year ago (the film came out in 2009). I was looking for something good to watch and the cover for Mary and Max intrigued me. I started reading the reviews and was a little hesitant when I read some saying "not recommended for children". I was like, "what? but its an animation film. I wonder why?". But I read on and the reviews seemed to be good so I gave it a watch.

While watching it I understood why it isnt recommended for children. the humor for one. second, the film has more of an "adult" like fashion. Meaning, it talks a lot about things that adults would mainly understand. Quoting Wiki - "The film deals with themes including childhood neglect, friendship, the obscurity of life, teasing, loneliness, autism (Asperger syndrome in particular), obesity, depression and anxiety."

When I first saw the opening of the film.. music playing while the camera takes shots of the Claymation hometown of Mary.. I think I shed a tear. Other than the story being incredibly good, the Animation itself is breathless. I have an obsession with Claymation. I think it just amazes me how much detail and craftsmanship is put into it. I could actually just watch the film with no sounds and still be satisfied. I like that NYC and Australia are both set in different tones. Max is set in a black and white tone while Mary is set in a more earthy tone. Max is more of this depressed person with anxiety which I think the tones match well and Mary is this sweet little girl with a more lighter tone.

I hope you all take the time to watch this film. Im not sure, but i think its still on Netflix. Or just buy the film, i promise, you wont be disappointed ;) haha If you have any Claymation film recommendations for me, please comment and let me know!

thanks for reading!!



-two first photos above are credited to Google-
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Rosa

website

hello all! has it been a week since my last post? woopsie. I have been pretty busy getting some illustrations done, I have not had the time to blog =/ I also missed Animation Talk Tuesday last Tuesday.. but I will have something up tomorrow :) anywho, I figured today would be a good day to bring up my new website (& domain). I have actually had a website for quite sometime but recently created a new one to showcase more of a portfolio. Its still in the works but im pretty thrilled about it.

illustration page on my new website

my domain has changed from rosaclementine.com to rosadelosreyes.com. You can find pages full of my work (with more to come). I still have a lot of organizing to do. You will also see both my shops added. Im in the process of transferring all my prints and paintings to my new Etsy shop (rosadelosreyes.etsy.com) and keeping all the brooches and crafty work in my Storenvy shop (prettyclementine.storenvy.com). hoping people wont get confused but im doing things one step at a time. haha.

hope you guys take a look at the new website.
have a great week! ♥





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Rosa