These are the outside faces of three 9" x 12" book covers (each is sold separately). The main image is taken from one of Leonardo da Vinci's "Studies of a Woman's Coiffure" for his painting, "Leda and the Swan." These bookcovers easily unscrew for insertion of 8 1/2" x 11" pages and the bookcovers can allow for much more material inside with the addition of inexpensive metal "extenders" which can be purchased at hardware stores. The insides and backs of the bookcovers are painted in either metallics or in other acrylics using a watercolor technique (see images below) and then quotes from Max Ehrmann's "The Prayer" or "Desiderata" are added as follows:

"Let me not following the clamor of the world but walk calmly in my path." (Front cover of blue and brown bookcovers); or "Lift up my eyes from the earth, and let me not forget the uses of the stars." (Front cover of the teal bookcover.)

Inside all: "Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as shall keep me friendly with myself" (inside front covers); "Give me a few friends who will love me for what I am, and keep ever burning before my vagrant steps the kindly light of hope" (inside back covers); "And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life, and for time's olden memories that are good and sweet, and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still" (back covers).