The significance of portraits

 

Me with my painting
The Maharani's great granddaughter with
her great granddaughter

Acrylic on canvas 
30 x 30 inches

Barbara Muir ©

It's very late, and after a jam packed day, I want to go to bed.  I'm not religious,
I don't believe in a "heaven" as such.  But this painting holds the essence of my
mother-in-law for me, and the bond we formed around the time I did her 
portrait.  She liked it -- which was huge for me.

And each night before I go to bed, I say goodnight to the painting, -- which is
in my studio, and to my mother-in law, who I am well aware is gone, but she
lives on in our hearts -- and I thank my mother-in-law for her beautiful son,
my husband.

So that's what good portraits can do.  This is one of my good portraits, and I
am so glad that it's here to remind me that love and art can combine with
meaning.

Have a loving your life day.