acrylic on canvas
8 x 8 inches
Barbara Muir ©
(The model for this
after our classes together
This has been a great day. I went to the morning coffee
meeting in my neighbourhood, and gave everyone my Valentine's
cards. Plus I'm working on some pieces for my next show
in April.
I lost my part time teaching job a couple of years
ago (10,000 part time college teachers in Ontario
lost their jobs because of restrictions on foreign students).
I loved teaching, and I know that teachers have had a powerfully
positive impact in my life. I hope that one day I'll
get to teach again. I wrote a happy tribute to teachers
in a former post. Here it is:
inspiring teachers in my life. When I started drawing in
school, I was like all the people who tell me I can't even
draw a stick figure. Why do people think a stick figure is so
simple? But within months I was drawing very competent life
drawings.
male life model came out to pose for us at art college
-- a huge, naked, middle aged man with a cloth bag over his
It took great teachers to bring young innocents who grew up
in the dull suburbs, like me, into the exciting, confusing,
wild, world of art, and they did it. I learned a lot from life
drawing classes.
My teachers in university got me excited about the world of literature,
opening doors to what would be a life long love of reading
and writing.
And more recently the workshops I've taken in person and
online have taught me so much about art, that I am sometimes
so dazzled I don't even know where to begin. But isn't that
a good thing? My brother's current philosophy is to ask,
"Is it true?" Constant learning sets us up in front of that
question every day, and for sure makes life just as exciting
as it was when I took my first art lessons."
I love reading your Instagram posts, blogs and articles
because you are all teaching me about every aspect of art
and life. Thank you.
Have a loving your life day!
