Monday, September 17, 2012

Right there with me

 
 One more cup of coffee please
Self portrait
Watercolour and black marker on
Arches watercolour paper
6 x 10 inches
Barbara Muir © 2012
Deciding what to paint today (aside from the commissions
I'm working on, which I can't show you yet) I thought about
Sheila Vaughan and her wonderful self portraits.  There I
was available to model, and I said,"why not?"  I took a shot
of myself with Photo Booth on my Mac, and got out a little
watercolour paper travel book I have.  The switch from
drawing paper to real watercolour paper was a treat, and here
is the result.

This sleepy person is back working full force.  It was a great day
painting, and a super day in class with funny, intelligent
and involved students. All in all wonderful.

Have a painting-who-shows-up day.
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10 comments:

  1. Liza HirstSeptember 18, 2012 at 12:53 AM

    Barbara, I love, love, love this portrait of yourself! It looks so light and joyful, yet also a bit pensive and sooo well painted.
    I forgot to mention before that I also like your peach paintings very much. You really captured the colour and the velvetness of their skin perfectly! Wishing you another wonderful day.

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  2. Sheila VaughanSeptember 18, 2012 at 12:55 AM

    your portrait turned out wonderfully - as Liza says light and fresh. And thanks for the mention!

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  3. Barbara MuirSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:56 AM

    Hi Liza,

    Thanks so much. I was a bit exhausted, and tried to get some of that in there. Glad it looks light and joyful, because I did feel that way.

    Hope I get to talk to you soon.
    Time is very tight for the next two weeks.

    xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoBarbara

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  4. Barbara MuirSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:59 AM

    Hi Sheila,

    Thanks so much. I am always so delighted with your self portraits (all of your portraits) and thinking back over the years (yes has been a few years now) that I've been looking at your self portraits, I am astonished at the variety of ways you've portrayed yourself. One day I will meet you and those images will flicker in my mind like a slide show, in the face of your actual self.

    XO Barbara

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  5. Elizabeth SeaverSeptember 18, 2012 at 2:07 PM

    What a good way to "shake things up." Nicely done!

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  6. Karen BrusonSeptember 18, 2012 at 5:13 PM

    Wonderful self portrait. It looks as though it was lots of fun to paint.

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  7. AnonymousSeptember 21, 2012 at 6:13 AM

    Barbara your portrait in watercolour is wonderful. You are so good.

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  8. Barbara MuirSeptember 24, 2012 at 6:05 PM

    Hi Elizabeth,

    I would like to "shake things up," but you are the master of that. I love your paintings and your stories.

    XO Barbara

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  9. Barbara MuirSeptember 24, 2012 at 6:07 PM

    Hi Karen,

    Thank you so much. Sometimes when I paint I am not aware of how I feel, because I'm concentrating. I think this might have been like that. For me as a painter, being lost in the activity is fun. Love your work.

    XO Barbara

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  10. Barbara MuirSeptember 24, 2012 at 6:08 PM

    Hi Sally,
    I was excited to see your pen and watercolour painting of Kingston's City Hall. I'm glad you like this, particularly because you know me.

    Thanks. I hope you are having a spectacular time in Italy. I know you will be.

    XO Barbara

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