Tired -- sometimes fatigue creates art

Let sleeping dogs lie

 charcoal on bond paper

14 x 16 inches
Barbara Muir © 2011
(this was our dog Zoey -- a
great dog)

Are you awake?

Charcoal on bond paper

8 1/2 x 11 inches

Barbara Muir © 2012
(My son Sam as a teenager sleeping.)

It’s been a busy day—painting, going to the market, painting, getting 
groceries, painting. You get the picture. Tonight I’m posting two drawings
about fatigue. Wishing you a good night’s sleep, and a wonderful day
tomorrow. 

Have a loving your life day.

A year ago in Paris

Me with my print of the painting

The Maharani's Great Granddaughter with 

her Great Granddaughter

Painting © Barbara Muir 2016

Print © Barbara Muir 2022

Last fall on this day we were in Paris taking shots of a print
of my piece showing in the Carousel du Louvre Art
Shopping show in the Louvre Museum. We had the
most wonderful time, and I'm so grateful to the E A Editore
people for giving their artists exhibiting in the show a super time.
Those memories always make us happy. And I'm grateful to
everyone who helped us to be able to make the trip.

Part of my reason for exhibiting the painting I did,
was that it was of Steven's mother, and over time Daisy
and I became very fond of one another.  Daisy was 
an artist too, she loved this painting, and would have
loved to know that my portrait of her, and her great
granddaughter showed at the Louvre. 

Steven and I had so much fun.  I do love Paris.
Miss you Daisy.

Have loving your life day.

Teaching again

Journal Sketch
marker on journal paper
6 x 8 inches
Barbara Muir © 2023

Tonight was the first night of a Presentation course I'm teaching
at a community center.  So much fun. So today will be a short
blog.  Here's another one of the quick sketches I've been doing 
each morning in my journal, to practice.

I'm really loving doing the sketches.  I notice that some artists
I follow do small paintings, and then expand the work on a larger
canvas.  Who knows?  Maybe one day these small portraits will
become faces on canvas.  Yes! That would be exciting.

Have a loving your life day.

A love of portraits

Journal Sketch
marker on journal paper
6 x 8 inches
Barbara Muir © 2023

These morning journal portrait sketches make me happy.
What is wonderful is looking at a person's face, and then
recreating it with marker, essentially pen and ink. It
is great practice.

I also love that as the people come alive on the page
in front of me, I start thinking about them, and wondering
how they're doing. I don't know this man, but I hope
he is having a wonderful life.

Have a loving your life day.

The past in the present

Fall Garden Bounty

Inktober drawing

Marker on drawing paper

7 x 10 inches
Barbara Muir © 2022

I started my Inktober drawings before October this year,
because I so love drawing with ink markers. Today has been
(like so many other days this month) wildly busy, so I'm putting
up an Inktober drawing from last year that looks a lot like our
kitchen table harvest today.  Except for the pansies.  We usually
have fall pansies, but I haven't seen them for sale this fall.

I hope you are having a good October wherever you are.  We are 
blessed in Canada to see spectacular fall colours, and to get to
drive through wonderful scenery with gorgeous trees in red,
orange, and yellow as the leaves turn.

Have a loving your life day.

Artist Heidirose Claussing

Peaceful Lunenburg Harbour

Acrylic on canvas

11.5 x 15.5 inches

Heidirose Claussing ©

One of the pleasures of visiting Nova Scotia we discovered
when we stayed at an inn in Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia
was the German bakery, and meeting Heidi and Dieter, the chefs
and bakers, and their daughter Susanne who frequently runs the
restaurant. 

Heidi is also an amazing artist.  If we're in the area we make a 
point of dropping in for breakfast, lunch, or to pick up some 
pastries. Yum. If you visit Annapolis Royal give yourself a treat
and go and see Heidi's art, and eat their delicious food. 

This beautiful painting caught my eye, and Heidi has graciously
agreed to let me show it to you.

Thank you Heidirose for wonderful conversations, lots of laughter,
your amazing art, and delicious food. 

Have a loving your life day.

Check out the Colours Of The Earth Show

 

Me with my painting

Moody Beauty

Acrylic on canvas

30 x 30 inches

Barbara Muir © Revised 2023

On Saturday I visited the Heliconian Club Colours Of The Earth exhibition.
Mark your calendar for either November 4 from 2 - 5 p.m., or November 8,
from 4 - 7:30 p.m. if you haven’t seen the show yet -- it is wonderful. 

Tonight I will show you some of the pieces I photographed while I was there.
Later this week I’ll feature a few more. 

The Catalpa Twists
Gouache on paper
10 x 14 inches
Dougal Haggart © 2023

Lytton Wildfire June 30, 2021
Watercolour on paper
15 x 20 inches
Rosemary Tannock

Patricia Bello with her work

Aurora Borealis
Watercolour

11 x 15

Patricia Bello © 2023

Make a point of visiting, the show it's fabulous, the building is gorgeous, and
there will be cookies and tea — free and delicious! 

Have an enjoying your life day!