Hello everyone, this is Sandy from Color Creatively and I have a flip through for you today on two books. They're both called Art Nouveau. This is Art Nouveau Animal Designs by Marty Noble and this is Art Nouveau Fashions by Ming Zhu Sun. So I'm going to take each one a time and show them to you. I think you're going to really like them. Okay, this one is by Ming Zhu Sun and it is the turn of the century fashion. They're so beautiful in here. There's 30 Art Nouveau Fashions. Art Nouveau was the fashion at the turn of the century and it had its popularity between 1890 and the early 1900s and this is actually a I had grandparents that were born in 1900. So this was their era. Okay, look at the colors. They're gorgeous and as you know creative haven books have wonderful paper and perforated pages so you can remove them. This is the one I would really like to do first. I don't know if I will but it's gorgeous. Oh, let me show you the back of the book too before we go on and this one. I mean just look at the beauty of the drawing and then with the color it brings it to life and of course all creative haven books have a picture started on the back and the one on the front is in the book too so you can color that. So let's go through this and take a look. She's got some gorgeous backgrounds. Ming does with these that match the dresses. So actually this book is coming with backgrounds. You don't really need to add anything to the fashion here. I think it would take away from it if you did and other than just a plain maybe a sawpastel background if you wanted to color it. And this is actually the way women dressed and this was the fashion from 1890 all the way through the early 1900s. Wow beautiful. So when I do a march into fashion for the month of March and I'm featuring Ming Zhu Sun then I'm this will be one of the books that I will color a picture out of for sure. I have several of hers and I'll get them all out and show them to you just before we start that or during that month to show you what I have and then we can start coloring some of her pictures. Beautiful. Very and for those of you that do not like detail do not be overwhelmed by this or turned off by it. For example on this dress here there are lines and then there are flowers. If you wanted to you could just make that a solid color and the bows. You don't have to do all that detail. So the detail is up to you. How much you want to do or how little it's all in how you color it. But these are just absolutely gorgeous drawings from her. She is one of my favorite artists with creative haven. I feel that this woman is very talented. Well they all are but I just like the subjects that she chooses to do and her work. So can you imagine living in this time and wearing clothes like this on a daily basis. That's sort of interesting to think about. We're so casual now. And here's a nice one with two women together. I like that one a lot. Here's one with a fairy and a umbrella and hat. Look at the gorgeous hats they wore. Brocade and lace and silk and velvet. All different types of fabrics. I'm sure that they and that looks like it has some fur on it. So in this one I would probably just color the backgrounds and I'll not do my own because I feel like they're pretty pretty complete like they are. And they all be they background will really be enhancing the main figure of each picture. So I'm very pretty upbeat address. And we've seen that one and the back. And so I hope you like the flip through on that one. That's Art Nouveau Fashions by Ming Zhu Sun. The other Art Nouveau book that I have is Art Nouveau Animal Designs. And I love Art Nouveau period. I like that time period in history. And this is Animal Designs. So this front with this peacock is absolutely gorgeous. That Marty Noble drew and the horse on here on the back. Oh there I don't want to glare. There we go. The horse here on the back. Just gorgeous. Let me keep an eye on the camera so I don't get off camera. This is one of the first ones I want to do. I do something about this design that I really like and I love the colors in it. So I'm going to try to duplicate that myself. And this one too is just gorgeous with the parrots. So let me take a look. I'm going to have to have a month devoted to Marty Noble. I haven't been coloring her work and yet I really like her stuff. Same with Marjorie Sarnat. Again creative havens, great paper, perforated pages, single-sided pictures. And this one here of the ocean with the sea horses would be fun. Here is the horse on the back of the book. That would be one I might want to do right away too. Here are some fish and lily pads and these archways and scroll work are very typical of Art Novo period and they're usually gold or silver or some copper color or something like that. So that sort of neat you can put your metallic watercolors or your gel pins or whatever medium you have that sparkles in there. Make it gold and silver. I think I'm going to do some of my gold and silver. Peacocks seem to be a reoccurring theme during the Art Novo period. This one is a beautiful one too with the horse. They all are so pretty. This is the front cover. So I'll do that one. Here are some birds. I just love the shape. The way she's presented them and some fish down here. She's presented them in a very neat way. Here's another landscape picture. This is a bird with a very long tail that reminds me of I don't know what the name of it is but there's an Asian bird that looks very similar to that. Here's the peacock that's on the front of the book and then the um I don't know what these are. Tigers, lions, lions and buffalo. Here's Eagles. And lizards. I love the border. The scrollwork and the border. A couple rabbits there. This is also a beautiful Art Novo. Look at the different designs around here to frame the main part of the drawing. Oops, another landscape. Same thing here. Luscious borders. There's great design. Very nice. Lots of arches and scrollwork through this. Even the clouds here are scrolls. This is a beautiful, this will be beautiful too. I like this one. There's more landscape in here than I thought. And kangaroo fish down here. Here's the other cover. The parrots. Now they blacked their background out. There's a ring here so you can either color it or black it out whatever you want to do. Okay, oops, I turned it wrong and it's not landscape. It's portrait. Chickens. Yeah, chicken and a rooster lobster. Butterflies. Dragonflies. Beautiful cat in the dog. The beautiful Asian bird again. And we're back to this picture. So there you have it. The Art Novo. 1890 and 1900s and we have fashion and animal designs. So I hope you've enjoyed the flip through of these two books and until we meet again, happy coloring.