The Commission goes home

Our garden in bloom
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 30 inches
Barbara Muir © 2024
(Not the final photo -- will get another one 
tomorrow.)

Today is a very happy day for me because my client came and picked up the commission.

It has been an intense job, and I am delighted that it made the collector happy.

The painting will be a present for the client's niece, so she sent a photo of the painting to
her niece right away, and her niece wrote back that she thinks it's beautiful.  Good
stories all round.  Wishing you a happy day.

Have a loving your life day.

Neighbourhood art

An inspiring day for sidewalk art

Photo:

Barbara Muir © 2024

It was a beautiful day today -- the kind that inspires people to make art.  I have
(almost) finished my very complex painting. Yay! So we'll see.  And I was happy
to see other people having a great day making art.  So happy and delightful.

Have a loving your life day.

Dancing in my mind

Before the dance with the cat. Before the dance in the red dress. The Promise

Acrylic on canvas Acrylic on canvas Acrylic on canvas

All 3 are 36 x 48 inches

Barbara Muir © 2009 Barbara Muir © 2008 Barbara Muir © 2009

Saturday is always a crazy busy day. We go to the market for food
from the wonderful farmer in the morning or late morning. Then
we run around doing a number of tasks for most of the afternoon.
Tonight is movie night in our house, and I can’t tell you what we’ll
be watching because we haven’t decided yet.

The paintings tonight are a few that you’ve seen many times, that I'm
very happy with. They are about the time into their adult lives. I called it
the Dance series.

Ideally, Saturday night would be a great night for going to a dance,
but instead, we may just have to have a couple of short dances in the
kitchen before the movie.

Have a loving your life day.

Friday night is great

 

Let's talk

black marker on paper

5.5 x 8.5 inches
Barbara Mur © 2019

This wasn't what I was planning to show you tonight, but organizing

what I'd planned was taking way too long, and it's Friday night. Before

my significant other (Steven) gets too immersed in the sad news of the world,
it's time to take him out for an evening walk.

I like this drawing from Inktober five years ago.  She looks happy, and
I am too.  Happy that all is well for the moment.

Have a loving your life day.

Happy Birthday to my friend Raylea, and the youngest member of our family

 

Happiness

Acrylic on Birch panel

5 x 7 inches

Barbara Muir © 2014
(Raylea was the model for this.)

Happy Birthday to my dear friend Raylea today.  This is one of my favourite

portraits. She was the model for this painting, and clearly inspiring.  It's also the 
youngest member of our family's birthday -- so a big day on the birthday
scene.

Wishing everyone who had a birthday today a great birthday, and happy year. 
It was a beautiful day here in Toronto.

Have a loving your life day.

This painting makes me happy

 

Peach party

12 x 12 inches

Acrylic on canvas
Barbara Muir © 

As far as I'm concerned this painting is perfection, and I don't know that

I feel that way very often. I'm thinking a lot about the end of summer and fall,

as the first absolutely gorgeous blue morning glories have come out on
our neighbour's fence.  I'm grateful to our neighbours for letting us plant
the plants against our shared fence.   And they are fine with the vigorous
plant.  The morning glories are incredibly slow this year, but peach season is
long gone.

It was a very hot summer.  Yes climate change.  It would be wrong to
wish that the season could be extended, but on a perfect day like this
one was -- we could be forgiven.  

Wishing you a wonderful, creative week,

Have a loving your life day.

Happy Wedding Monthaversary Steven

Our dog Sally smelling the Cosmos

on our walk.

Photo:

Barbara Muir © 2024

Today was a quiet Tuesday Monthaversary of our wedding -- something we notice (like the
Monthaversary of our first date) every month.  All day it was very rainy -- unlike the
photo.  We sat on our back porch with the dog and two cats enjoying the sound of the
rain and watching the birds navigate it.

Both of us were working on projects, so we sat together during breaks.  And although we
were very, very tired at the end of the day we went to Ikea (I love their salmon dinner), for
dinner.  Good choice, there was almost no one there. We have not been fans of crowds since
COVID, which is resurging.

We declared our love for each other, and now it's time for a bit of TV.  Dinner was delicious,
and we do feel extremely lucky to be married to one another.

Have a loving your life day.