The Off The Wall Show -- you're invited!

Invitation to the Off The Wall show.

Free admission

Hi Friends,

Here's the invitation to the Off The Wall Show at the Heliconian Club,

35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto.

Admission is free and there will be treats and wonderful coffee. 
People who purchase can have their work wrapped, and take it home
right away, then another work by the artist goes up on the wall!

I am planning to have 30 paintings in the show.  So please come out

and say Hi!  We'd love to see you.

Have a loving your life day. 

Another painting for the Heliconian Club Off The Wall show

Tulips in a silver jug
Watercolour on watercolour paper

5 x 7 3/8 inches

Barbara Muir © 2024

Here is another painting that I'll be showing in the Heliconian Off The Wall exhibition
I've talked about quite a bit here.  Please come to the opening if you're in town. It's
on between 2 and 5:30 on November 30, at 35 Hazelton Avenue in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada. There will be cookies, and lots of art to look at.

I am a big fan of tulips.  As we speak there is a vase of brilliant red tulips in my 

kitchen -- so cheerful as the fall cold comes in.  Don't get me wrong -- I'm a major fan 

of fall and spring.  But it does feel like a happy miracle to have tulips in the fall as the 

leaves begin to vanish, and we need all the cheer we can get.

Have a loving your life day. 

The last of the Nasturtiums

September's bliss

Watercolour and marker

on Arches watercolour paper

6 x 10 inches

Barbara Muir © 2012
(I know it's November. Lol.)

I went into the garden today to pick what I'm pretty sure will be the last
of the nasturtiums, and I am so sorry they are going to probably be
finished tonight if it dips below zero.  They are such a wonderful
flower -- so joyous, so easy to take care of, and you have to pick
them so they will bloom.

So right now our kitchen table is filled at one end with small white
cream jogs boasting very happy nasturtiums.  I have been prepping

paintings, and painting all day.  It was a beautiful day here, and
I enjoyed every minute of it.

Have a loving your life day. 

Remembrance Day

Canada Bereft
One of the sculptures at the 
Canadian National War Memorial
at Vimy Ridge in
France.

This Remembrance Day I feel sorry for all of the people --
soldiers and civilians -- who have died, and continue to die
in wars.  The last time I checked there were 32 conflicts 
going on currently. It feels especially sad that we haven't
learned that wars don't work -- they just kill people.

I think of one of my students in a writing class, when we
wrote journals about a perfect day.  He described a 
perfect day in the war in Afghanistan.  How his division
attacked a village.  He was 19 years old when he joined
the army.  As he was reading in front of the class, he
almost cried shouting, "it's not the Highway of Heroes,
it's the Highway of Murderers," and ran out of the classroom.

As a girl I was an Ottawa School Patrol (school crossing
guard).  We helped people cross the street.  And we got to
go by bus down to the war memorial on Remembrance Day.
We marched wearing our school patrol white belts with the
soldiers and police. We felt so special. I'm glad I didn't
grow up to be a soldier, and my thoughts are with my
student today who did.

Have a working on peace day.

Grateful for my website

 

Some images -- not all on the

website. I need some help
getting it up to date now, and
that will happen in the next couple
of months.  I wanted to 

put a celebratory piece up for you tonight.

This was an incredibly exciting event for
me -- getting a website.  

I first went public with my website on November 3, 2021, and it is a wonderful thing.
People who want to see my work, don't necessarily want to read my blog, and some
people don't want to look at Instagram.  So there it is. https://www.barbaramuir.com
-- wonderfully organized, and a clear way for people to see what I do.

I am over the top grateful to my son Christopher for organizing it, designing it,
and just helping me all the time with my questions about how to handle my sites.
Thank you to everyone who helped me with the website, and to everyone
who has visited it to check out my work, buy my work, and promote me
as an artist.

Have a loving your life day.

Another painting for the Off The Wall show

 

Country sunset

Acrylic on mounted 

birch panel

5 x 7 inches

Barbara Muir © 2024

Here is another painting for the Off The Wall show opening on 
November 30 at the Heliconian Club, 35 Hazelton Avenue.
The show is free of course, and there will be delicious treats!
Plus if you want to buy a painting the prices are sale prices --
very reasonable, and you can take the painting home with you
if you buy it!  A super event.

I love the happy mood, colour and texture of this one.  Wishing
you a good weekend. Don't let the news get you down.

Have a loving your life day.

Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband

 You can't keep a good man down

Acrylic ink and acrylic on canvas

36 x 48 inches

Barbara Muir © 2020

We had a very sweet family celebration for Steven today.
His actual birthday was yesterday, but ever since we found
out that his real birthday was November 7, which is our son Sam's
birthday too, we've either celebrated on the 7th, and 8th, or on both.

We discovered when Steven's mother (now gone) was
living in Ottawa, that there had been some mix up when Steven
was born, and his father recorded the wrong date. His mother
explained that the date on his birth certificate was correct.

Our solution?  As Sam's birthday was November 7, and 
Steven had celebrated on November 8 for his whole life,
we kept that tradition

If anyone deserves two birthday days it's this guy -- such
a kind, generous human, and the love of my life.  He 
is the best.  Happy Birthday Steven.

Have a loving the people in your life day.