Sad night at the art club

 

 Remembering

Art Group Sketch

Acrylic on canvas

20 x 24 inches

Barbara Muir © 2013

A dear friend in art, George Shane, died a week ago.
 He found out he had ALS about a year and
a half ago, and the disease progressed very rapidly.

I was proud of George when he held an art show in
the residence he was living in last August and
received visitors in his wheelchair.  At the time he
could still move the wheelchair with one hand.  His
work was beautiful -- both modern and evoking the
lessons of the masters.  And George was just a
wonderful man, a true gentleman.  He had so much
strength of character sitting with his paintings.

So there were many teary eyes tonight at the club
when we found out he was gone. And we made plans
to have an evening to honour George and
share our stories.

I did this painting of our beautiful model for
the evening, Laura Burns.  Though just a sketch
it feels like it captures the serious and thoughtful
mood of the night.

Have a telling-your-friends-how-much-they-matter day  

Late family Valentine's Day party and the tissue paper flower heart

 

 Thinking

Acrylic on canvas

18 x 20 inches

Barbara Muir © 2012

The image tonight is of the model at my art group tonight.
It was nice to be there for a little while and see the people.

On Sunday night we had our family Valentine's Day party
because Sam was home from university and all of us were
pretty busy on the actual day.  The kitchen was decorated
and I wrapped the last tissue paper peony onto the wreath,
and hung it up on the back door a second before
Christopher and Megan came through the front door.
The heart was loosely based on the lovely tissue paper
heart on the cover of Martha Stewart's February issue.  I
went out with a friend to get the tissue paper a few weeks
ago, and started the heart then -- but this was a lot of work.
On Sunday I made a big push to get it done -- thinking otherwise
what was the point.  I'm not really a crafter, but thought this
would be a snap.  It wasn't. I think there are at least 80 flowers wired onto
our frame.

 The Valentine's Day Heart

a la Martha Stewart

So a big poufy extra Valentine's Day wish to you.   May
all of your days be filled with people who love you so
much they'd make you a huge tissue paper heart.

Have a loving -your-life day.