Ideal Bookshelf

Ideal Bookshelf 329 - 335

Ideal Bookshelf 329: RK
2011 / 8x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 330: LLT
2011 / 8x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 331: AER
2011 / 8x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 332: AMS
2011 / 8x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 333: VWK
2011 / 8x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 334: PJKS
2011 / 8x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 335: JPS
2011 / 8x8" / gouache & ink on paper

EK commisioned paintings for each of her 7 bridesmaids!

Ideal Bookshelf 287: BBB

Ideal Bookshelf 287: BBB
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 285: JO

Ideal Bookshelf 285: JO
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 263: LB

Ideal Bookshelf 263: LB
2011 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 226: ES & SP

Ideal Bookshelf 226: ES & SP
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 197: JC

Ideal Bookshelf 197: JC
2011 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 196: MAT

Ideal Bookshelf 196: MAT
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 194: CD

Ideal Bookshelf 194: CD
2011 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 156: ALW

Ideal Bookshelf 156: ALW
2010 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 151: WBH

Ideal Bookshelf 151: WBH
2010 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 147: VBL

Ideal Bookshelf 147: VBL
2010 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 131: JD

Ideal Bookshelf 131: JD
2010 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 126: DDY

Ideal Bookshelf 126: DDY
2010 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 118: SJT

Ideal Bookshelf 118: SJT
2010 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 109: VAM & LS

Ideal Bookshelf 109: VAM & LS
2010 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

These are a bunch of lovely books written by Vicky Ann Moon and her husband Leonard Shapiro as an anniversary present from her to him. 

 

Ideal Bookshelf 106: JRT

Ideal Bookshelf 106: JRT
2010 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper

LB's dad is a fan of meat, trucks, history and golf.

 

Ideal Bookshelf 102: Cooking

Ideal Bookshelf 102: Cooking
2010 / 12"x16" / gouache & ink on paper

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This set is actually a "Super-Ideal" bookshelf, in a sense. It contains all the cookbooks most often included in people's sets of favorites, plus a few of my personal favorites I couldn't leave out. You can buy prints of it on 20x200.

 

"Ideal Bookshelf 102: Cooking" on 20x200!

I have another print on 20x200 today (actually it went up yesterday; I'm swamped with custom paintings and not keeping up with things like I should!), full of cookbook classics and a few new great ones that many people have asked me to paint in the past.

On a different note, I just accientally made a mug of tea *so sweet* that I can barely drink it. My teeth hurt. But at least it's hot; I can hold it.

Ideal Bookshelf 81: ARD

Ideal Bookshelf 81: ARD
2010 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

ARD picked out her and her husband's favorite books to have painted as an anniversary gift for him. Note that it includes their family recipe collections, that they had combined into books at this place, very cool.

Ideal Bookshelf 85: NBM

Ideal Bookshelf 85: NBM
2010 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

RM commissioned this painting for her daughter, NBM. This may be the happiest looking set of books I've ever painted. The Girl Who Played With Fire was especially fun to paint. So was Let the Great World Spin.

Ideal Bookshelf 80: GW

Ideal Bookshelf 80: GW
2010 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

I consider George one of my best friends ever, even though we don't see each other in person very often, despite living in the same city. I value his opinion highly; whenever I start a new project of some sort, I wonder, "What would George think about this?" and often improve things based on the answer. We went to college together, where I dated his best friend and he dated the girl who would eventually become my first roommate in Manhattan (and would later marry Steve Martin). Later on George and his wife Jen and I all worked together at Bolt. Now he is the chef and owner of egg in Williamsburg, where the line for a weekend table stretches around the block. He and Jen and their two beautiful blond daughters also have a farm upstate where they grow much of the produce for egg.

These are the books he feels contributed to who he is today.

Ideal Bookshelf 82: EM

Ideal Bookshelf 82: EM
2010 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

EM lives in Torino, Italy and these are her favorites. I like that the color scheme and design of the spines feels very different even at a glance, before you realize most of them are in Italian. And I loved painting Barbapapa again, in a second language (the first was in German). He's a pink blob creature and family created in Paris but exported via TV and books all over 1970's Europe.

Ideal Bookshelf 78: SS

Ideal Bookshelf 78: SS
2010 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

SS is a chef and food blogger in Italy. Her knives were more appropriate than her books. Silver gouache paint doesn't scan well for the web, though.

Ideal Bookshelf 76:

Ideal Bookshelf 76:
2010 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

SA commissioned this as a wedding present for two friends, combining both his and her favorites. (I don't yet know their initials, but will fill them in when I do.) I really like the color scheme, and that edition of Lord of the Flies is in my top ten favorite books I've ever painted.

Ideal Bookshelf 65: MS

Ideal Bookshelf 65: MS
2010 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Meg Scheminske lives in Portland, Oregon. This piece was one of four I painted for a show she curated at Milepost 5. The theme was "I Want To Feel At Home Here," so I painted the books of several folks who call PDX home.

Ideal Bookshelf 59 & 60: LB

 

Ideal Bookshelf 59: LB

Ideal Bookshelf 60: LB
2010 / both 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

LB sent me her family's favorites for two paintings to hang together in their vacation house. I love the old edition of The House at Pooh Corner.

Ideal Bookshelf 74: AM

 

Ideal Bookshelf 74: AM
2010 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Model Bookshelves

For the Curiosity Shoppe show I did a little "Model Bookshelf" series. They are all "life-size", same as the spines of the real books, but each one is just a facade that can stand on its own. They are amalgamations of favorites from various people, grouped by genre.

Model Bookshelf 3

Model Bookshelf 3
2010 / 11"x12" / acrylic & paint pen on MDF

Model Bookshelf 2

Model Bookshelf 2
2010 / 11"x12" / acrylic & paint pen on MDF

Ideal Bookshelf 54: CS

Ideal Bookshelf 54: CS
2010 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

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Ideal Bookshelf 53: AZA

Ideal Bookshelf 53: AZA
2010 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

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Ideal Bookshelf 52: SKM

Ideal Bookshelf 52: SKM
2010 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

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Ideal Bookshelf 40: CB/JG

Ideal Bookshelf 40: CB/JG
2010 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 39: YP

Ideal Bookshelf 39: YP
2010 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 38: JMc

Ideal Bookshelf 38: JMc
2010 / 9"x9" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 34: OBF

Ideal Bookshelf 34: OBF
2010 / 9"x9" / gouache & ink on paper

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Ideal Bookshelf 19: CR

Ideal Bookshelf 19: CR
2010 / 6"x9" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 16: JMM

Ideal Bookshelf 16: JMM
© 2010 Jane Mount

12"x16" / gouache & ink on paper

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Ideal Bookshelf 12: AH

Ideal Bookshelf 12: AH
2009 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 6: GW

Ideal Bookshelf 6: GW
2009 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

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Bookshelf 45: AZA, Philadelphia

Bookshelf 45: AZA, Philadelphia
2009 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Bookshelf 38: SKM, Atlanta

Bookshelf 38: SKM, Atlanta
2009 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Bookshelf 32: SKM, Atlanta

Bookshelf 32: SKM, Atlanta
2008 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Bookshelf 11: JMM/DK, Manhattan

Bookshelf 11: JMM/DK, Manhattan
2008 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper / collection of carrongail

Bookshelf 6: JMM/DK, Manhattan

Bookshelf 6: JMM/DK, Manhattan
2007 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper / collection of Julie Raimondi