bookshelf
I LOVE art, ANY kind of art. It makes me happy. It inspires me. Most recently I was inspired by artist Jane Mount who began drawing people's bookshelves (to see Jane"s bookshelf drawings click here ). Like Jane, I have a fascination for looking at people's book shelves. You find out a lot about a person by looking at their books.
So I gathered up a sample of mine that I thought was representative and sketched them my own self.
Here they are.
A Beautiful Cruel Country by Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce. 1st edition given to me by my Mother, who also recommended this book to me. This lovely book is about a woman's life growing up in the Sonoran Desert. The authors individuality, insight and empathy made this my very favorite book about Arizona; the state, of course, where my heart lives. I'm crazy in love with my desert. Well any desert really, but the Sonoran desert is extra special. I am one of those people who falls just as much in love with places as with people.
Electricity For The Entertainment Electrician and Technician by Richard Cadena. The book I SHOULD be reading every night until I've learnt it all by heart. I am very privileged to know its author, one of the most interesting, nicest men I have ever met. I need to get my copy signed!
The Dragon by Jane Gaskell. 1st edition. The book I discovered freshman year of high school. The main character is so much like me. This book and the others in the series were my comfort through many lonely times. No mater how bad things seemed, I could always escape to this incredible world.
The Audubon Society Field Guide to Wildflowers and the guide to Insects and Spiders. This sort of represents all field guides actually. I have a bunch, many of them given to me by my photographer father who gets free copies whenever his pictures are printed in one of them. I love wildlife of all sorts and my family showed me at an early age, how to identify all the cool stuff i find on my rambles.
The Adrian Mole Diaries by Sue Townsend. Ah, the cringe-worthy adventures of Adrian Mole. Much like the British TV show hit, The Office, Adrian Mole is painfully funny. So horribly awkward you just cant stop reading, and so terribly, squirmishly familiar.
Compost. The best guide I've found on the subject so far. My dream has always been to have a big garden.
Louisa the Poisoner by Tanith Lee. Tanith Lee is my very favorite author of all time. Her writing is beautiful and creepy and sexual and dark and gorgeously grim. I cant get enough of her. Fortunately she writes a lot! This isnt even my favorite book of hers, but it does have the best title.
Desert Places by Robyn Davidson. The author's first book (which i own a 1st edition copy of) Tracks, was an account of her trip across the Australian desert alone except for her camels and her dog. This is another author of rare insight, empathy and independence, definately a hero of mine. She, like me, loves deserts.
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit. Natalie Babbit is the most gifted story teller I have ever read. Each of her lovely children's stories is nothing less than perfect. Tuck is probably her most famous, but I have them all and love them all, The Search For Delicious, Kneeknock Rise, The Eyes Of The Amaryllis...
Higglety Pigglety Pop or There Must be More to Life by Maurice Sendak . First edition. Yes Mr. Sendak wrote Where The Wild Things are, but he wrote so many other good ones too. I collect books that he's illustrated. He is one of the main reasons I wanted to become an illustrator. This one has a very independently minded heroine named Jenny, who happens to be an adorable, fuzzy dog. Dogs are another weakness of mine.
The Lonely Planet Guide To Baja and Los Cabos. To represent all the travel books I have and my constant wanderlust. Baja is one of my favorite places on earth and it is, of course, a desert.
A Beginner's Guide To Bats. Just another neat field guide.
The stones are two that I brought home from a beach in Baja California. I sometimes use them to meditate when I have my life together enough to do things like meditation.
The dragon is one of a set of Dragon bookends my Mother brought to me from a trip she took to England. I love them!
bookshelf
I LOVE art, ANY kind of art. It makes me happy. It inspires me. Most recently I was inspired by artist Jane Mount who began drawing people's bookshelves (to see Jane"s bookshelf drawings click here ). Like Jane, I have a fascination for looking at people's book shelves. You find out a lot about a person by looking at their books.
So I gathered up a sample of mine that I thought was representative and sketched them my own self.
Here they are.
A Beautiful Cruel Country by Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce. 1st edition given to me by my Mother, who also recommended this book to me. This lovely book is about a woman's life growing up in the Sonoran Desert. The authors individuality, insight and empathy made this my very favorite book about Arizona; the state, of course, where my heart lives. I'm crazy in love with my desert. Well any desert really, but the Sonoran desert is extra special. I am one of those people who falls just as much in love with places as with people.
Electricity For The Entertainment Electrician and Technician by Richard Cadena. The book I SHOULD be reading every night until I've learnt it all by heart. I am very privileged to know its author, one of the most interesting, nicest men I have ever met. I need to get my copy signed!
The Dragon by Jane Gaskell. 1st edition. The book I discovered freshman year of high school. The main character is so much like me. This book and the others in the series were my comfort through many lonely times. No mater how bad things seemed, I could always escape to this incredible world.
The Audubon Society Field Guide to Wildflowers and the guide to Insects and Spiders. This sort of represents all field guides actually. I have a bunch, many of them given to me by my photographer father who gets free copies whenever his pictures are printed in one of them. I love wildlife of all sorts and my family showed me at an early age, how to identify all the cool stuff i find on my rambles.
The Adrian Mole Diaries by Sue Townsend. Ah, the cringe-worthy adventures of Adrian Mole. Much like the British TV show hit, The Office, Adrian Mole is painfully funny. So horribly awkward you just cant stop reading, and so terribly, squirmishly familiar.
Compost. The best guide I've found on the subject so far. My dream has always been to have a big garden.
Louisa the Poisoner by Tanith Lee. Tanith Lee is my very favorite author of all time. Her writing is beautiful and creepy and sexual and dark and gorgeously grim. I cant get enough of her. Fortunately she writes a lot! This isnt even my favorite book of hers, but it does have the best title.
Desert Places by Robyn Davidson. The author's first book (which i own a 1st edition copy of) Tracks, was an account of her trip across the Australian desert alone except for her camels and her dog. This is another author of rare insight, empathy and independence, definately a hero of mine. She, like me, loves deserts.
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit. Natalie Babbit is the most gifted story teller I have ever read. Each of her lovely children's stories is nothing less than perfect. Tuck is probably her most famous, but I have them all and love them all, The Search For Delicious, Kneeknock Rise, The Eyes Of The Amaryllis...
Higglety Pigglety Pop or There Must be More to Life by Maurice Sendak . First edition. Yes Mr. Sendak wrote Where The Wild Things are, but he wrote so many other good ones too. I collect books that he's illustrated. He is one of the main reasons I wanted to become an illustrator. This one has a very independently minded heroine named Jenny, who happens to be an adorable, fuzzy dog. Dogs are another weakness of mine.
The Lonely Planet Guide To Baja and Los Cabos. To represent all the travel books I have and my constant wanderlust. Baja is one of my favorite places on earth and it is, of course, a desert.
A Beginner's Guide To Bats. Just another neat field guide.
The stones are two that I brought home from a beach in Baja California. I sometimes use them to meditate when I have my life together enough to do things like meditation.
The dragon is one of a set of Dragon bookends my Mother brought to me from a trip she took to England. I love them!