Month of love -- inking it in

Play Tulips for Flora

Acrylic Ink, and acrylic pen sketch

5.5 x 8.5 inches

Barbara Muir © 2019

Today actually was a Snowmageddon and schools closed in
Toronto for the second time in 8 days!  Wow.  I trudged through
the snow to a meeting and back, which was actually fun.

I dedicate tonight's play time sketch of tulips to Flora Doehler
who taught me to use Acrylic Ink.  She didn't really teach
me, as you can see.  I have a long way to go.  But she inspired
me, because her work with ink was exactly what we need
in a dense snowfall.  Brilliant colour, and sheer beauty.

Flora is one of the artists who has changed my life, over and
over.  She wanted me to start this blog, at least a year before
 I actually did, and she is always trying new things. I love that.
Thinking of her so far away in Nova Scotia in this the month
of love!

We are very different.  She lives in the country, I'm a
city girl.  She and her husband Larry Knox, grow their own
vegetables, and freeze and can their food for the winter.
Plus both are amazing cooks.  I am not a cook, and garden
as simply as possible.  But we connect massively on art.
Plus Flora and Larry are two of the kindest, funniest, most
supportive people I know.  And we love spending time with
them.

Have a loving your experimental friends day.