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Daily Painting, Acrylic Painting Books

by cooper on 11/18/2008 9:29:45 AMComment on this

Greetings,

Welcome to my daily painting place, where today's topic is books.
When you vision yourself in ultimate relaxation mode, is there a book in the vision? Does your favorite get-away scenario involve a good book? You know, laying on the beach, the temperature is the opposite of what Spencer, Iowa is right now, the sun in gentle on your face, and you have a copy of __________ (that means insert your current favorite) in your hands.

In my studio, I have a bookcase, that is not nearly as capacious as it ought to be, evidenced by the number of books in the stacks also neatly (sure!) lined up on the floor beside said bookcase. My family members just recently did a whine because the only thing on my Christmas wish list was books. Yeah, and they are all art books, a bunch of them which are out of print and you have to search used bookstores to find. I have online accounts with several book sellers, and take great pride (

) in knowing where the best book deals can be found. Yeah, I like books. I even have a good friend who is an author. Ha! How many of you can say that? (hi Mary

)

Therefore, it only stands to reason that I should paint paintings of books, right? But what good are books if you don't read them? I rest my case: painting people reading books is thereby a neccessity and I will continue to do so. And in that mode, here's the latest in my series of paintings now fondly thought of as 'the reader's series'. Duh.

Here you are then. It's even got a book collector title. Personal Collection is an acrylic painting on a gallery wrapped canvas. It measures a lovely 20 x 20 inches. This painting shows the model sitting in front of her bookshelf full of books, next to a stack of books, holding a book that she's reading, while drinking a cup of the other important ingredient in this pictoral equation. Coffee.

Have I ever whined to you about our office (and this computer) being at the end of the longest furnace duct run in the entire house? You know what that means, considering Spencer was at a balmy 13 degrees this morning. That's farenheit degrees, by the way. I am not a speedy composer of blog posts and so I have been at this cold keyboard long enough that my poor little hands are pretty friggin icy. Let's revert back to the last word of the previous paragraph. Time to go make a pot. But first here's the image of the new painting. Personal Collection. Enjoy!

Later, Cooper

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