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Ideal Bookshelf 485: VWA© Jane Mount 2012 / 9”x12” / gouache...

Ideal Bookshelf 485: VWA
© Jane Mount
2012 / 9”x12” / gouache & ink on paper
I painted VWA’s books as a gift from her daughter KW.
Ideal Bookshelf 490: PD© Jane Mount 2012 / 8.5”x11” / gouache...

Ideal Bookshelf 490: PD
© Jane Mount
2012 / 8.5”x11” / gouache & ink on paper
KH asked me to paint her friend PD’s lovely books.
Ideal Bookshelf 500: Book Club© Jane Mount 2012 / 10”x14” /...

Ideal Bookshelf 500: Book Club
© Jane Mount
2012 / 10”x14” / gouache & ink on paper
JH and her friends in Atlanta (my home town!) have met as a book club for 25 years!! I painted the books they voted the best of the lot.
(Also, this was my *500th* Ideal Bookshelf painting! woo!)
Ideal Bookshelf 460: JA© Jane Mount 2012 / 9”x12” / gouache &...

Ideal Bookshelf 460: JA
© Jane Mount
2012 / 9”x12” / gouache & ink on paper
JH is based in Kabul, and commissioned this for her friend JA. Once I started pulling up the photos and realizing there were a few cool landscape spines (Little House, East of Eden, and The Great Game), I hunted through the Google/eBay to find more (the Penman and the Newby).