The Project Web Site

And another step. The basic web site behind Rosso Bella is online, waiting....just waiting...

If you care to see it, it is www.rossobella.com. Just it a moment to load, for there is a tiny bit of java just waiting to be discovered.

The sigh and the long pause

Perhaps as you read along, you will hear my sigh. The pause. The longer pause. The sound of waiting. Yes, that is where this project now stands. Slowly but surely Rosso Bella is turning into a business.

But we pause as the packages of red items will hopefully soon arrive in my post office box. And we pause, fingers crossed that our business credit card will also go through so that we can open a PayPal account.

Until then...it is a sigh and a pause...another sigh...another pause.

Progress

Another step forward. We have begun to get ourselves in line for the beginning of this project. Bank account, EBay and PayPal, post office box...now all I have to do is begin...and think about how to celebrate this project.

Haniel Long

"In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy."

Clarence Holland White

Ah Pictorialism.
The graininess, the softness of diffusion. Skin glowing in murkiness. There is something marvelous in this type of style. Was it due to industrialism, the coming depression, the oddity of the 1920's or just a rebellion against the sterility of improving technology? Perhaps it was the true vision of near-sighted artists. (I jest a bit here).

I feel deeply akin to this genre.

Mucha

Once upon a time, another artist appealed to my vanity with compliments. He alluded to the idea that I look like a Mucha girl and that opened my world to Alphonse.

To see more Mucha or to purchase the above print, visit www.allposters.com.

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Some might say that the Ziegfeld Girls were the epitome of womanliness, especially as depicted by Alfred Chaney Johnson. I am very tempted to agree. The grace and fluidity is stunning.

If you are interested in collecting his work, EBay is a great source. Check out http://myworld.ebay.com/ka59/. This seller has a lot of fine prints by Johnston.