Virtual Library Catalog for CFWS

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/CFWS

At LibraryThing.com, you can browse the CFWS online catalog for free. You may also create a free account.

I set up a free account for up to 200 books which is the maximum I figure I can ever handle for our organization.

Every summer when all books are returned, I inventory them and put them in separate categories based on availability (if they were returned or have been missing for more than one year).

If you have any questions, please contact me at http://www.tinyurl.com/karensemail.

CFWS Special Collection of Large, Oversized Books

The following list of books can be borrowed, but are available only on request due not only to their size, but also due to their value.  They were kindly donated by Sy Rosefelt.  Sy was one of the  original, founding members of the Central Florida Watercolor Society.

Thanks to his kind generosity, his legacy can live on through books from his library.  In the previous post on December 31, 2012, I listed many books that were from his personal library.  The books listed below are in the new “Special Collection”.  Please call me on my cell phone (do not use email) to request a book from this list and I will bring it with me to our next scheduled meeting.

Painting Masterclass

Paintings in The Vatican

The Illustrated Library of Art, History, Appreciating and Tradition

Impressionists Side By Side by Barbara Ehrlich White

The Art of J.M.W. Turner by David Blayney Brown

Impressionism by the Editors of Realites

Rembrandt Paintings by Horst Gerson

Michelangelo, The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture by William E. Wallace

Painting at the Edge of the World, The Watercolours of Tony Foster

To see an online list of these books with more details click here.

Visit the Central Florida Watercolor Society web page at http://www.centralfloridawatercolor.org.

New Books in the CFWS Library (as of Dec. 31, 2012)

Interpreting the Figure in Watercolor by Don Andrews

Simplified Watercolor Landscapes by Tom Jones

The Pencil by Paul Calle

Lessons from a Lifetime of Watercolor Painting by Donald Vorhees

Rendering in Pen and Ink by Arthur L. Guptill

The Graphic Work of M.C. Escher by M.C. Escher

The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher by Bruno Ernst

The Big Room, Portraits from the Golden Age by Michael Herr and Guy Peellaert

The Vatican Collections, The Papacy and Art

Master Drawings Rediscovered, Treasures from Prewar German Collections by Tatiana Ilatovskaya

An Artist’s Venice by Arbit Blatas

Techniques of the World’s Great Painters, Ed. Waldemar Januszczak

Watercolor Expressions by Betty Lou Schlemm

Masters of Color and Light by Linda S. Ferber and Barbara Dayer Gallati

Impressionism, Ed. Ingo F. Walther

The Wilcox Guide to the Best Watercolor Paints 2001-2 Edition by Michael Wilcox

Plein Air Painting in Watercolor and Oil, by Frank LaLumia

The Highwaymen by Gary Monroe

Whitney Gallery of Western Art

Bosch, The Complete Paintings by the Visionary Master by Erik Larsen

Painting Portraits of Homes in Pen, Ink & Watercolor by Helen J. Haberstroh

Venice Sketchbook by Huck Scarry

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards

Art of the Western World by Michael Wood, Bruce Cole and Adelheid Gealt

Brera, Complete Guide to the Works in the Gallery

Visit the Central Florida Watercolor Society web page at http://www.centralfloridawatercolor.org.

Our Books at LibraryThing

A list of all CFWS books is available online 24/7 at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/CFWS.  However, please be aware that this site is only updated every summer.

New Library Assistant

Welcome back to all our members. Over the summer I decided to ask for someone to assist me during the meetings. While I was still setting up for our first meeting of the year Doris walked up and started talking to me. She is a new member. She told me that she was a member of the Citrus County Watercolor Society and loves books. I told her about my idea to ask for someone to help me with the library and she gladly volunteered!

On a sad note, a few of our old VHS tapes have stopped working. I will be testing a couple of them and may have to remove them from the library. On a good note, this year I will begin purchasing new DVDs!

See you all next month!

New Books at February 2009 Meeting

The new books went like hotcakes! Here is a list of them. By next month I will be working on purchasing some DVDs to add to our library.

Splash 4, Splash 5, Splash 6, Splash 7, Splash 8
Internet for Artists 101

Thank you to the following members for their recent donations to our library:

• Sy Rosefelt donated a VHS tape: A Vision of Venice by Ken Howard
• Guy Mattson donated a book: Loose Watercolor by Jerry McClish

Coming soon to this blog will be a list of the rules for borrowing books from our library.

Welcome to our new library!

Thank you for visiting! You may want to bookmark this page for future reference.

This blog will be used to announce new books and videos as they are added to our library.

It will always contain a link to the list of books and videos that are currently owned by the Central Florida Watercolor Society. (See below and on the left.) The list will show if a title is checked in or out.

Each item is due back at the next meeting. It is appreciated if you return any items you have borrowed at each meeting so others can learn and study from our collection.

Comments to this blog are welcome! Please only post items pertaining directly to or about our books and videos. Suggestions for new titles are most welcome as are comments about books and videos you have borrowed.

Thank you! Here is the link to our current list of titles in our collection:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pL5AU09QJjYXzfbsQW-SUIQ