Thursday, January 22, 2015

Goodbye Christmas -- Love is on the way!

  
Breakfast in the hotel
(full breakfast in sunlight)
Upper left section
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 inches
Barbara Muir © 2012
My son Sam helped us get the Christmas tree out
of the studio today to my great relief.  I have been
working on small work, but dreaming of going
after something like the four paintings I chose
for the Facebook Challenge Day 4 today.
Breakfast in the hotel
(the star of the show)
Upper right section
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 inches
Barbara Muir © 2012
The tree will go in the backyard on a stand
that Steven made to hold not yet dead Christmas
trees and he will be able to see the birds and
squirrels arguing over the birdseed he'll put
on the tree from the window through to
the downstairs office until the tree goes brown
sometime in March.
Breakfast in the hotel)
1/2 there (the top)
Acrylic on canvas
3 X 8 Feet
Barbara Muir © 2012
This has become our tradition because it makes us
sad when the Fraser fir moves out.  Those trees
stay vital and hold their needles a long, long time.
And besides it's time to start thinking about Valentine's Day.
Breakfast in the hotel
(Toast and jam)
Lower left section
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 inches
Barbara Muir © 2012
I debated putting any number of my food paintings
on today, but these are my largest combined work
to date, and it made me happy to post to Facebook
all in one go. So I'll put them on one by one, and
then fit the puzzle together. Thinking about
Valentine's Day makes me think about Breakfast in the
hotel.  Great idea!
Breakfast in the hotel
(oatmeal purist)
Lower left section
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 inches
Barbara Muir © 2012

Breakfast in the hotel
1/2 there (the bottom)
Acrylic on canvas
3 X 8 Feet
Barbara Muir © 2012
I nominate Nicki Ault for the Facebook challenge
today.  She is an awesome landscape painter.  I
often think she's inherited the Tom Thomson
gene somehow -- our most famous Canadian
landscape painter.  Plus she's a great person
and a friend.  
Breakfast in the hotel
complete
Acrylic on canvas
6 X 8 Feet
Barbara Muir © 2012
Have a thinking-really-big day.
(I know I am.)

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I paint and draw on commission and for shows. To commission a portrait, or purchase one of my paintings please contact me at: barbara.muir@sympatico.ca
A major highlight in my career? Drawing Oprah Winfrey live via Skype for her show "Where in the Skype are you? Galleries: Studio Vogue Gallery, Toronto, Canada. The Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, New York City. Gallery at the Porch Door, Kingston, Canada. Your positive comments on this blog mean the world to me. I'd love to hear from you!