Hi All -

Well, I hope everyone is busy creating beautiful art ;o) I have
finally gotten a new dog portrait on my site - you might enjoy seeing
it -
http://APortraitForYou.com/animals/dogs.html

The new one is Chloe - the black dog with the green background. There
are more new portraits in the 'people' section. I have another dog
portrait - a graphite - that I want to get on the site, but I'm not
sure when that's going to happen LOL

Since you're artists, too, thought I'd tell you that I found a table
of art books at a book shop and bought two copies, one for me and one
for you ;o)

I am putting abot 4 at a time on eBay - These four books will end
TODAY at about 7pm Central time -

CAPTURE THE MAGIC OF YOUR HOMETOWN IN WATERCOLOR - this is a great
book, not just for watercolor. If you're like me, you have a ton of
photos that you've taken because you loved the scene, but when you
get them developed, they just don't capture it - this artist shows
you how to use those photos and combine them with others, and change
the light and weather, etc to create fantastic paintings. You can use
this information to create in any medium. He also tells you how to
market your paintings.

SPLASH 5 THE MAGIC OF TEXTURE - beautiful watercolor inspiration
book. I don't do many watercolors, but I love to sit down and drool
over the artwork. It has inspired some of my pastel and oil works.

CAPTURING RADIANT COLORS IN OILS - Susan Sarback - this book is out
of print - the startign bid is $9.99 - you can't find a copy anywhere
for less than $18 - and this is a brand new copy. There is some
damage to one corner, it looks like it got caught in a drawer or
something, but if you want to learn how to see and use color - you
really ought to have this book - it's rated 5 stars at Amazon, and I
agree!

WATERCOLORIST'S COMPLETE GUIDE TO COLOR - This book will help you
really understand color, from the basics to advanced. I enjoy my
copy, even though it's dedicated to watercolor, like all good
artbooks, you can use the information in any media.

I'll be posting the following books in a few hours -

CREATIVE LIGHT & COLOR TECHNIQUES IN WATERCOLOR - this is another
really good colr and light book. There are tons of photos and ides
here.

BEST OF COLORED PENCIL 5 - an oversized book with fantastic Colored
Pencil artwork

SPLASH 4 THE SPLENDOR OF LIGHT and SPLASH 5 THE GLORY OF COLOR - two
more in the Splash series

To see any or all of these -
http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewSellersOtherItems&include=0&userid=lizarmon@...&so
rt=3&rows=25&since=-1

or search by seller lizarmon@...

Hope you enjoy looking - If you're a bibliophile like me, this is a
treasure trove LOL

Liz

http://aportraitforyou.com