Third Annual Poe Appreciation Blog Hop

Come Join Us In The Fun!!

 I could not resist participating in this awesome
5 Day Blog Hop,
January 19-23
 that is honoring the
late, great, renowned
 Mr. Edgar Allen Poe!


Happy Birthday Edgar Allen Poe!!!
January 19, 1809

 

 

 

Leigh Snaith Brunson is hosting this blog hop and
after I read through her post with the directions
 on how to join the blog hop, I looked at all of her
amazing designs on her blog.

She adds so much creative detail and beautiful color
 to every design she creates. They will naturally
 catch your eye and hold it there as you take in every
 flourish and flair! I can already tell you that she will
 be one of my favorites to follow and someone to
watch for future inspiration.
Check out the  LeighSBDesigns Poe collection!!

My dark imagination produced these
Poe art pieces for today's post! 
I hope you will stop by and take a quick peek
 at my spooky
Edgar Allen Poe
 art work
and leave a spooky comment if you will!

 

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                                                                  An InLinkz Link-up

Dream In Darkness January Challenge

ANYTHING GOES

I want you to believe...to believe in things you cannot.

...Bram Stroker Dracula

I'm starting out the New Year with some Dark Dracula Art. 

Come and play with us at the Dream In Darkness January Challenge!

IF YOU DARE!!!

Click on the link below to enter the challenge!

http://dreamindarkness.blogspot.fi/2018/01/last-years-stuff-is-this-years-use-by.html

Illustration Friday Challenge

FIVE

Dream In Darkness December Challenge

ANYTHING GOES

 

 

Click on the link below to come and play with us!

 

 Dream In Darkness Challenge
 

Credits: Itkupilli Digital Kit Spiritus Mortis

Take A Word Challenge

BUTTERFLIES

 



Credits: DKerkhof Dark Papers, Itkupilli Spiritus Mortus

Dream In Darkness November Challenge:

Anything Goes

 




http://dreamindarkness.blogspot.com

Steampunk Digital Art

LEAF

Credits: Moonlight Journey Collage Sheets, Eena's Creations Digital Kit Steampunk

The Three Muses Challenge

Time Flies

 

Credits: Eenas's Creations: Digital Kit The Alchemist, Digital Kit Dream Big, and Digital Kit Steampunk

Dream In Darkness NOVEMBER Challenge:

LONGING

 

Check out by clicking on Dream In Darkness Challenge to play along!!

 

Credits: Vintage image of woman E-zine.com, background Library of Congress, Angel Wikipedia

Creative Commons

Digoital Whispers Dreamers Challenge

HAUNTED HOUSE

 

“There had stood a great house in the centre of the gardens, where now was left only that fragment of ruin. This house had been empty for a great while; years before his—the ancient man's—birth. It was a place shunned by the people of the village, as it had been shunned by their fathers before them. There were many things said about it, and all were of evil. No one ever went near it, either by day or night. In the village it was a synonym of all that is unholy and dreadful.”

― William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland    

 

 

Credit: Moonlight Journey Collage Sheets 

Digital Whisper Dreamers Challenge:

GHOST

 

Brown Lady of Raynham Hall

a claimed ghost photograph by Captain Hubert C. Provand.

First published in Country Life magazine, 1936

By Source: Fair use https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26302476, Eena's Creations Digital Kit, Alchemist, Little Girl from Land Of Nod Studio.

Halloween Freebies For You

I love creating my own style of dark art and during this time of the year, I  like to share my vintage "Trick Or Treat" goodies from my dark and dreadful stash. Feel free to use what you like from this post to create your own Halloween art.  I will be posting more free images throughout the month of October until Halloween. 

And just to satisfy my dark, dark soul...please...send me a link to the spooky dark art that you have created.  Not only would I love to see what you have created but would dearly love to post your Halloween Art here at Dark Rosaleen.  


Vintage Halloween Postcards

Thank you for visiting my dark art blog!!

Collage Obsession

Creepy Things

 

 

Seeing this otherworldly apparition would really creep me out!

 

Credits:  background stock photo came from my stash!

Forever Night Halloween Collage Sheets

*NEW* Moonlight Journey Collage Sheets

Just in Time for Halloween

 

Here's my DTA Halloween Forever Night Creations!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You'll love creating spooky art with the backgrounds

from the Forever Night Collage Sheets!!

 

Click on the link: Moonlight Journey

and you will be transported to the magical world of Moonlight Journey

 where you'll find more Halloween Artistic Journal Packs,

vintage images, and special art projects just perfect for that someone special! 

 

Don't miss seeing all of the Halloween Goodies Lynne has created

 that I know you'll love to use over and over again

when crafting your own  Spooktacular Halloween Art!!

 

Collage Obsession

THEME:  TRIO

 The Three Of Graces

 

 

This art piece was created from the Botticelli painting, Primavera,  which is where I got my image to use for the Tarot Card Challenge. I love Botticelli's work and knew that I would want to create more art later on from some of the  images from the painting. When I read about  our new challenge this week, I thought  the Primavera  would be a perfect fit for what I had in mind to create!

 

Original: 
Primavera, also known as Allegory of Spring, 
painted by the famous Italian Renaissance artist, Sandra Botticelli,1482.
 This is what the painting looks like in it's entirety, which includes 9 demi-gods and goddess!
Truly a beautiful masterpiece!!
 

 

A few Interesting facts about the La Primavera!!! 

 

The pastoral scenery is elaborate. Botticelli said there are 500 identified plant species depicted in the painting, with about 190 different flowers. Of the 190 different species of flowers depicted, at least 130 have been specifically named.

From right to left: Zephyrus, the biting wind of March, kidnaps and possesses the nymph Chloris, whom he later marries and transforms into a deity; she becomes the goddess of Spring, eternal bearer of life, and is scattering roses on the ground.

Venus presides over the garden - an orange grove where she stands in front of the dark leaves of a myrtle bush.  The  Three Graces accompanying her are targeted by Cupid,  while Mercury keeps the garden safe from threatening clouds. The woman in the flowered dress is Primavera (a personification of Spring) with her companion Flora.

The painting was inventoried in the collection of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici in 1499. Since 1919, it has hung in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. During World War Two, the picture was moved to Montegufoni Castle to protect it from wartime bombing. It was returned to the Uffizi Gallery where it remains to the present day. In 1982, the painting was restored.


Credits:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primavera_(painting)
Background from PSO Autumn Art mini kit, Metal Tag from Tragic Garden, and  clip art from Moonlight Journey.