Srping Updates, Example works.

Silvija, Oil on Canvas, 2009

Legs, Oil on canvas, 2010

Erika, Oil on panel, 2010

First stage of Mattia Pretti Copy, 2010

Srping Updates, some works.

Japanese Olm, Oil on linen, 2010

Forgetful, Oil on Panel, 2009

Compositional studies, 2010

Compositional studies, 2010 Structural Drawing, slow but acurate

Book Reccomendations

American arts
by Rilla Evelyn Jackman
biographies with plates of the great American 19th century painters
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=267412&matches=25&author=rilla+evelyn+jackman&cm_sp=works*listing*title

From Seven to Seventy
by Edward Simmons
Auto biography of a great American 19th century painter
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?author=edward+simmons&title=from+seven+to+seventy

The Care of Pictures, a good book for you and your clients to have
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=927968&matches=30&title=The+care+of+pictures&cm_sp=works*listing*title

Freer A legacy of Art
The catalog for a museum started by Patron of Thomas Wilmer Dewing , Whistler, and Thayer
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=2453212&matches=189&title=Freer+A+legacy+of+Art&cm_sp=works*listing*title

The Academy : Five Centuries of Grandeur and Misery : From the Carracci to Mao Tse-Tung
Book is old but holds many reporductions of unknown academic painters from Solon Era, certainly worth they buy.
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?author=Thomas+B+hess&title=The+Academy

Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition
you can guess
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=10362807&matches=5&title=Paris+1889&cm_sp=works*listing*title

Portraits from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
by Lillian B Miller
cool and worth the cheap buy, good set of info on portraits and painters, prints are good
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?title=portraits+from+the+american+academy

A great book on Pietro Annigoni By Nicolo Rasmo is hardcover and filled (90%) with plates, many drawings many fresco's many portraits, probably the best book out on the painter.
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1101311855&searchurl=an%3Dnicolo%2Brasmo%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26sortby%3D2%26sts%3Dt%26tn%3Dannigoni%26x%3D0%26y%3D0

Oil Painting Techniques
by Harold Speed
https://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/9780486255064

The Practice and Science of Drawing
By Harold Speed
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=5283759&matches=16&wquery=Harold+Speed&cm_sp=works*listing*title

The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques: Fifth Edition, Revised and Updated
By Ralph Mayer
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=10827578&matches=25&wquery=Ralpg+mayer&cm_sp=works*listing*title

The Painter's Methods and Materials (Paperback)
By A. P. Laurie
http://www.amazon.com/Painters-Methods-Materials-P-Laurie/dp/0486218686

The Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting, with Notes on the Techniques of the old Masters
By Max Doerner
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=4227717&matches=34&author=Doerner%2C+Max&browse=1&cm_sp=works*listing*title

The intention. The desire.

Amidst the tomes of information available to the painter today I hope we, here at Painter's resouce, can offer resources that you haven't herefore found. We hope to offer assistance, helping find ones way around our jungle of a profession. Feel free to email me if you have any questions which are not covered in the posts or would like to join our group and contribute! It's made for you!.