New Art!

My muse returned after a long absence!  I decided to follow up on a piece I did last year, and modify the technique.

Here's the original inspiration piece that I did in 2010- naturally, the subject is Joan Crawford (one of my favorite subjects!)

Its a rough piece, unfinished.  In hindsight, I wish I would not have cut the image into sections but ce la vie.  Its a really large piece- poster-sized- so at the time I thought it was necessary. 

After looking at this again this past weekend, I decided to try my hand at making similar smaller pieces- 8x10 in size- of other classic hollywood actresses. 

I played with the backgrounds a bit more- using watered down oil pastels (portfolio), paint pens (sharpie), charcoal and pencils, stamp inks (staz on, colorbox chalk), acrylic paint (golden, folk art).  I used stencils and stamps periodically. 

Here are the results:

Carole Lombard

Gene Tierney

Jean Harlow

Audrey

Donna Elizabeth

OWOH Giveaway WINNER!!!!

I want to sincerely thank each and every one of you that posted comments on my blog- I am tickled pink and honored to be the recipient of such sweet words!

I was especially honored to have a bunch of fellow cemetary buffs commenting on my cemetary angel- thank you!! 

OK, without further ado, I have used Random.Org to help me choose the winner and the winner of my cemetary photo is:

"MOI" Freubel from the Netherlands!!!!!  http://freubel-art.blogspot.com/

CONGRATS!!!!!  I will send the print out asap and will be emailing you privately to get your address.

Thank you everyone for playing and a huge thank you to Lisa for hosting this awesome event!  I am so sad that this year is the last year. 

-Rita

One World One Heart Blog Giveaway

I am pleased to be participating again in the One World One Heart Event!  This wonderful event gives bloggers all over the world a chance to get to know each other, to meet and greet via the web. 

My name is Rita Bellanca aka the Atomic War Bride.  I love to dabble in all types of art media- from jewelry to painting to digital art to sculpture to photography and anything in-between.  I'm especially drawn to images/ideas from the 1940s thru the 1960s- everything from old etiquette books to fashion catalogs to educational films, but I also have a darker more gothic side- I love to wander around cemetaries with my camera. 

Hence my offering for the OWOH giveaway this year is one of my favorite cemetary photos:  "Decay".
I took this photo in a lovely small cemetary on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. 

Please leave a comment on this blog in order to be entered into the giveaway.  I will need a way to contact you so please be sure to include your email address or a link that leads to your email address. 

The winner will receive an 8x10 print of this photo.  I will pick the winner in the evening of Feb 17th and will notify said person by the 18th if not sooner.

Thank you for looking!!
Rita

I love the Sea!

I was thinking about mermaids today, and how when I was a kid I was convinced that one of my vaccination scars was actually a "secret mark from Atlantis".  I was a Princess of Atlantis.  And of course, since Atlantis had sunk beneath the waves, it followed that I was a mermaid.  :)

This made me want to look back to see what sorts of sea-related tidbits I have created.  Most of these are many years old, but fun to revisit nonetheless. 

Here's a doodle I did of a mermaid and below that, the subsequent digital art piece I created from it!

Below are a couple of "undersea" pieces I did featuring my own poetry.

Naturally, I love Bathing Beauties too!  Here are a couple of pages I did for a chunky- I made specific pages for each player.

Here are a few Pirate pieces:

The cover of a Mermaid-themed journal I created for a Round-Robin exchange:

There's a fish trapped under this net:

I made both of these pages for someone's else RR journal.

The theme for this ATC exchange was "Fish out of Water". 

Just playing around:

The digital piece below is one of several of mine that made it into the ATC book put out by Stampington!

Below is an ATC I made for Bernie Berlin's card deck (ages ago):

Aquanetta the Saint

ZOMBIE!

Some of my favorite pictures of Zombie so far!!

This photo was taken by A Paw Up Shelter- the shelter that rescued Zombie (then called Sage) and his mom Willow and his gorgeous siblings. 

My boy snoozing... love his whiskers

Living up to his name and chewing on a "hand"

This is one of the earliest pics I took of him... so much cuteness- fell asleep in my lap.

So Scary!

Zombie's first snow!

Look at that belly!

He LOVES to climb into boxes or laundry baskets.  And he loves to put his toys in boxes.  Now I just need to reinforce that so he'll pick up after himself!

Graduating from his first puppy class!