At the wedding in Tuscany
Acrylic on canvas
12 x 16 inches
Barbara Muir © 2013
I've been painting all day, but I'm working on acommission, and I can't show you what I'm doing
-- yet. Tonight I went to my art group to discover that
Marko, a great artist in our group, was posing. Perhaps
the model didn't show up -- I never found out. Marko
struck a kind of moody Beethoven pose. And he has
the hair for it. But Marko is probably one of the
nicest, kindest people I know -- and the farthest thing
from moody.
Yellow it seemed to me was the complete opposite
of moody, which explains his shirt. His tie was
somewhat blue, so I put them together and it
immediately felt right.
It's a dream of mine to return to Tuscany. In fact
it's one of my dreams to live in Italy for a year. At
my art group I've been inventing the backgrounds
lately. That's why in my painting Marko is not in
our plain, Toronto studio. He's in Tuscany at a
wedding and has just stepped outside for a break from
the dancing, but someone snapped his picture. That
was my thinking. Thanks for posing Marko -- another
wonderful night with my friends in art.
Have a going-with-your-dreams-in-art day.
