I am so excited about publishing such beautiful resolution photos of my paintings on writing books. They are easy to use, strong and, of course, with an image of someone reading or writing on the cover....inspirational. You can buy one or collect a set from a series. I always photograph my paintings with a high resolution camera and save them all. Generally I photograph with a canon 80d and will divide the painting into halves or fourths depending on the size and then stitch the photos together with photshop. That way I get a large file suitable for printing or sending to fineartamerica where many of my paintings go....(Ijust signed with ICANVAS too) Again, with the help of Photoshop, I sized them for the 7 x 10 and 8.5 x 11 covers and created the composition notebooks. This week I added this one in the 7 x 10 size which was in demand for fitting in purses. I have lots of women taking classes, managing shopping lists, writing common book annotations and this fits the bill beautifully. If you try one, please write me and let me know what you think. The only complaint I heard was that the word composition across the front as the title should be removed, so I did. I see them more as Women's journals....a place to write most anything. I am falling in love again with writing and paper and PENS! This one is available as of last week and of course if you have amazon prime the shipping is free...It arrives in 24-48 hours.

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I just have to pause for a day on art posts and show you this adorable new member of the fammily. We lost our little precious dog about two months ago. Ricky and the dog were best buds and now we are sad and alone ........so.......good idea....we got a new kitten. If you've ever tried to introduce a young kitten to an older cat you know it has to be done carefully. Well after a week of separation they got wind of each other. Another week went by and all of a sudden as I was sitting on the bed out of the corner of my eye I saw the little one jump up and start his approach to the 9 year old. I happened to be reading on my ipad at the moment so I could just click the camera record button and got the who interaction. It's adorable. I posted it on the youtube station and give you a link here to see how cute it is. You can fast forward through my "talking" if you want to get to the cute part. Enjoy. MEANWHILE I'm working on an abstract and it's HARD !

PUTTING MY PAINTINGS ON THE COVER of books

Once again I am letting you know how excited I am about my latest project, putting my high resolution images on the cover of notebooks and planners. I made a video where I show you a few of the 100s that I've posted. I am also becoming a more organized person with my appointment and project management notebook. I love digital things but I have found that anything I post disappears into the depths of the internet. Digital planners are of couse good for tickle notifications but I genuinely like writing things down and enjoy being able to turn pages and see the past and the future. LOOK on your amazon account and type in sally rosenbaumm composition books or planners

Alizarin crimson, indian yellow and prussian blue AGAIN

This is an 8 x 10 image from a photograph I took ages ago......33 years ago to be exact. It's mind boggling how time works. I started with an indian yellow toned canvas and then outlined the figure with the blue. I then began to block in the shapes within the figure and without the figure. Keeping the palette simple once agains keeps you as the artist simply asking the simple questions. Is it warmer (add more yellow) or cooler (add more red) than what it's next to. The other important question will be Is it lighter or darker. Everytime you add a color to another color it diminishes it's brightness unless of course you're adding white which again can work to cool it down. WITH such a limited palette you get the hang of it really easily. When I was photographing subjects and scenes to paint I would generally ask them (in this case I did the choosing) to wear white. It's of course super reflective and you can make the painting sparkle with the reflected lights. This is still available for sale on website www.sallyrosenbaumartgroup.com and as a print, or greeting card on FINEARTAMERICA https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-sally-rosenbaum/shop