Late at night. Everyone else is in bed. Just me and my laptop…and the wireless connection.

Uh-oh…

I’ve done e-mail. Facebook. The news. I’ve skipped from art link to art link. Reading. Looking at pictures. Getting inspired. And then, somehow, I end up on Amazon.

Do you see where this is going?

Uh-huh…ART BOOKS!!!

Books! Book! Books! I loves me my books. Loves them so much a couple years ago I asked Santa for a Kindle. Because the books were taking over the house. Stacks of books by the bedside. On the floor. On every available surface. Towering over our heads as we wound our way through a literary forest, following the breadcrumbs from room to room.

Like something out of a bad reality TV show.

Well, okay. I’m embellishing. To make a point. Set the scene. Explain why I wanted needed a Kindle. I needed a Kindle for my inner infant  instant gratification. For getting the book I want RIGHT NOW. Doesn’t matter if it’s 2AM. I just go on-line, click the buy now button and I’m reading the book within a minute.

Sweet.

Except don’t buy ART books on Kindle. Or any other e-reader for that matter. Art books need full size pages with big glossy photographs. Ones you can stare at and drool over.

So there I was, deep in Amazon’s Mixed Media section. It was late. I was tired. Defenses were down. And the buy now with one click button fit my finger just right.

I bought two.  Flavor for Mixed Media: A Feast of Techniques for Texture, Color and Layers by Mary Beth Shaw. You can check it out here. And Unfurling, A Mixed-Media Workshop with Misty Mawn: Inspiration and Techniques for Self-Expression through Art by Misty Mawn. Here’s the link for that one.

They’ll be here in a couple of days but I really won’t have time to look at either one until after after the holidays. I’ll keep you posted. Look for the reviews in January.

And now I’d better go to bed before I buy something else.