Ideal Bookshelf: kids

kids

31 August 2010

Ideal Bookshelf 84: JP

Ideal Bookshelf 84: JP
2010 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

JP is the sister of my friend JP. I like the graphic quality of her favorites, and I enjoyed painting the book spine (The Know-It-All) that includes book spines running the opposite direction.

Aug 31, 2010 9:11:00 AM | FAVORITE, fiction, kids, non-fiction, young adult

23 August 2010

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.

Aug 23, 2010 8:55:05 AM | cooking, FAVORITE, fiction, food, italian language, kids

06 August 2010

Ideal Bookshelf 79: JMM

Ideal Bookshelf 79: JMM
2010 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

These are the books that have most changed me, that helped make me who I am today. At least if I pick right now. Mostly they are about adventure journeys and talking animals. I've always been ridiculously attached to the idea that there's more to reality than we can perceive, and more worlds out there than we realize.

Aug 6, 2010 11:51:04 AM | fiction, kids, non-fiction, young adult

Ideal Bookshelf 72: AS

Ideal Bookshelf 72: AS
2010 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

Alice is the lovely baby daughter of friends. Currently she prefers board books. I also painted her older brother's books.

Aug 6, 2010 11:41:31 AM | kids

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.

Aug 6, 2010 11:24:44 AM | art, cooking, kids, philosophy, religion

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.

Aug 6, 2010 11:10:20 AM | cooking, fiction, kids, non-fiction

28 June 2010

Ideal Bookshelf 75: JM

Ideal Bookshelf 75: JM
2010 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Jun 28, 2010 8:02:16 AM | graphic novels, kids

27 May 2010

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.

May 27, 2010 1:55:00 PM | cooking, kids, mythology, young adult