Regency Garden Party with a Roaring Rogue

What I love to do best is create and now that I've finished posting the 2nd series of Ackermann's Repository fashion plates I thought I'd have a bit of fun.  Using a variety of Ackermann images and one very cool lion man by J.J.Grandville; I was able to create this wild Regency garden party scene.

My inspiration for this digital art piece "Regency Garden Party";  were two books I just finished reading by Larissa Lyons which she has dubbed her "Roaring Rogues".  This Regency romance series takes a walk on the wild side;  since the men of this family are cursed with being lion shifters - yummy.  Currently there are two books in the series and I believe more in the works.  These unique Regency reads are not your average romances, they have unique story lines and erotic adult content so they are not for the faint of heart.  But if you like your romances a bit on the wild side (like I do), give "Ensnared by Innocence"  and  "Deceived by Desire" a try.  The first two books were so entertaining that I can't wait for book 3 to come out;  I'm so looking forward to it.  Thanks for such fun reads Larissa and for inspiring my latest digital creation.

A bit of Regency Whimsy using various images from the pages of Ackermann's Repository

I've been a fan of J.J. Grandville and his series of animal people for a long time; one of my favorite characters by him is this stately Lion Man.  After reading Larissa Lyons' erotic Regency shape-shifter books with lion shifters; I could not resist creating this fun piece of digital art using him and some of my great Ackermann finds, including an animal print curtain.  In Larissa Lyons' erotic Regency shifter series, these "roaring" male shifters are truly rogues of the first order; however what lady can resist such magnetism.  So, I've created a bit of a garden party scene where my lion gentleman is getting more than his share of attention for the ladies.

I enjoy creating digital art pieces and it's one of the reasons I constantly hunt for items that can be added to my artists arsonal of fun and unusual images.  I know that many of you out there enjoy doing the same; so I hope you will be adding some vintage Ackermann images to your stock-pile and creating fun new art with them as well.

 To create my Regency Garden Party scene I used a variety of images from 

Ackermann's Repository and one of Grandvilles characters.

Here are the items I used

Lion Man by Grandville - colorized by EKDuncan

This lion gent is dressed in very late Regency attire but I think he still works 

quite well with my mid-Regency ladies, so I'm sure no one will complain about his fashion sense.

 I took the Grandville print, removed the background and colorized
it in Photoshop; so he could blend in with my Ackermann images.

This is the original Grandville image of the Lion Man

Grandville was a French, satirical artist and is probably best known for
his body of work Les Métamorphoses du jour done in 1828-1829 
depicting a large assortment of animal people that play out a human comedy. 
Each animal face depicted the true personality 

of the character in the book and was very popular in it's day.

The Lion Man is my favorite of all his characters.
I'll probably post some more of these fun Grandville images at another time.

All the other images in the scene came from

the pages of Ackermann's Repository

Click HERE to see the original plate and other 1817 

fashions from Ackermann's Repository

Click HERE to see the original plate and other 1819

fashions from Ackermann's Repository

Click HERE to see the original plate and other 1819

fashions from Ackermann's Repository

This is an illustration of a Garden Seat from an 1820's issue of Ackernann's Repository.

Ackermann's Series 2 included a lot of illustrations of garden settings and they make very nice backdrops for digital art creations like my "Regency Garden Party"

I will be posting more images like this later on after I finish with all the fashion plates.

I love curtains and leopard prints - this one great image has them both rolled into one.  

Untill I saw this image I never associated animal print with the Regency period but 

here you have it.  I like this particular curtain so much that if you take a look at 

the top of my blog you will see that I used it to create my banner/header.

This is what the original 1809 Ackermann's furniture plate looked like.
I used Photoshop to remove out all the parts I did not want and then digitally
altered the color to work with my scene.

Ackermann's has lots of great furniture plates and of those several are of amazing window draperies like these.  I'll be posting more curtains and furnishings later on after I finish with the fashion plates.
  So there is a lot of great Regency images still to come over the next several months.


I Hope you join me again as I post the Ackermann's Repository Fashion plates for Series 3.

Till next we meet