Love, Bettie by Arumbus
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Funny how things happen.
A friend of mine is a Hot Rod nut! He is starting an on-line store specializing in custom parts for hod rodders who work on cars from the late 40's and 50'. He wondered if I may be able to do a pin-up reflecting the period and mentioned a Bettie ... a Bettie Page.
Yes, I had heard of her, but was born a good 25 years too late to have ever seen her... at least when I was old enough for it to mean much.
so I decided to do a little research.
An interesting Gal, our Bettie was. She became known as the "Queen of Pinups" and though she started in the late 40's - her hay day was in the 50's. Culminating with being one of the first Playboy pin-ups and the cover girls for that magazine's Feb. 1955.
Known for her raven hair, milk white skin, and an extremely curvaceous form, Betty had everything needed to be come a quick success.
Years were not always good for glamorous photo shoots and the college trained (teacher) model made much of her income selling mail order photo's. These started as vanilla pinups but quickly led to sadomasochistic bondage themes. She was also in a number of silent featurettes showing women clad in lingerie and high heels acting out fetishistic scenarios of abduction, domination, and slave-training with bondage, spanking, and elaborate leather costumes and restraints.
Betty went back and forth between the two worlds; of the glamorous pinups... and things a little seedier for most of her career. Though she often would pose nude, Bettie never was involved in any sexually explicit scenes.
In 1958 she became a born again Christian and was extremely active in many missions and Christian causes in the 1960's and started working for the Reverend Billy Graham in 1963.
Bettie was very prone to mood swings and depression and spent some extended periods in psychiatric hospitals.
From her retirement in the late 50's she received little attention until the 1980's and 90's where there was a strong nostalgic resurgence of her work.
Betties Page died in 2008 at the age of 85.
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V4 a new custom morph and texture tried to get the face close to hers... the scene is a complete fabrication and is made from 4-5 different photo's including those killer cars.
The lighting was time consuming and involve over 20 light sources with shadow maps. Various elements and hair highlights painted in. The postwork was to emulate a feel for the period.
In any case, I hope you like her.
Rick
Comments (70)
jclP
very nice work!
drifterlee
Wonderful job on Betty!!!!!!!!
flaviok
Uma obra magnifica de realização soberba meu amigo, excelente informativo, aplausos (5)
BIGBEAR1965
Fantastic pin-up and excellent bit of info!
anitalee
Excellent
theprojectionist
Great piece Rick,and Bettie will live on,even though she died in poverty,correct me if im wrong.
sylki
WOW!!!Excellent work in blending!! Great pin-up!
brycek
Lovely pin-up!!
Richardphotos
outstanding likeness with the glamorous pose.I heard a lot about her when I was young, mostly from my mother that she was going to burn in hell for her mischievous ways
treasureprints
Very sexy and flirty!:)
DRAKELOT
Xcellent !
bazza
Fantastic work on this image Rick she looks lovely, nice cars too and info was interesting very well done!!
machobubba
Just because the work you put into her I'm saving her, making a favorite, giving you a Five cause I can't go higher... Very Fascinating... I think I have an old figure of her in my Runtime....
DarkStormCrow
Very nice, well done...
nefertiabet
Wow!!! Waht a wonderful scene, great lady and car!!! Excellent colors, great painting effects!!!
giareg
Excellent lights and render....so realistic!!!!
mauk
Great work!!!!!!
RodolfoCiminelli
Wonderful and creative work......!!!!
Hubert
Sweet and cool!
thecytron
Xcellent modeling work!
Morgana61
Splendida immagine...wonderful work!
miashadows
Really beautiful.You did an amazing job !
NitraLing
Awesome!!!!
ragouc
Very good composition and postwork.
Tea_Rex
This is very impressive Retro' craft, Rick. It works exceptionally well. Yes, I get Betty bright and clear here. What I like is that this comes across as Betty at her peak where you can recognize the joy and playfullness coming through. In my experience, the only was this quality of autenticity comes through a work of imagery is when there is a love for the subject(s) being interpreted. Well done! Terry
brewgirlca
Great image of her. The slightly grainy look to this image really helps make it a period piece. Bettie was a gal way ahead of her time in terms of sexual liberation... too bad she went Born Again, it ruined her life.
fallen21
Beautiful composition, really nice work.
ArtistKimberly
~•:¨¨:•°-:¦:-°•:¨¨:•~EXCELLENT~•:¨¨:•°-:¦:-°•:¨¨:•~
Cimaira
I had never heard most of what you wrote about Betty Paige! Very interesting stuff! Wonderful image, great looking Paige and amazing cars :)
Sylvia
Wow!! She is ~Grogeous~ Superb Creation... FABULOUS!!! Thanks for sharing