Thank You to my wonderful teachers!

Poem by the Don

Acrylic on canvas (diptych)36 x 48 inches

Barbara Muir © 2008

Love, love, love -- day Nine.  Thank you to my teachers, and I send

love out to all the inspiring teachers in my life.  When I started
drawing in school, I was like all the people who tell me I can't even
draw a stick figure.  Why do people think a stick figure is so
simple.  But within months I was drawing very competent life
drawings.  I reeled in shock as a 17 year old girl when the first
male life model came out -- a huge middle aged man with a
cloth bag over his privates.

It took great teachers to bring young innocents who grew up
in the dull suburbs, like me, into the exciting, confusing,
wild world of art, and they did it.

My teachers at university pulled me into the world of literature
opening doors to what would be a life long love of reading
and writing.

And more recently the workshops I've taken in person and
online have taught me so much about art, that I am sometimes
so dazzled I don't even know where to begin.  But isn't that
a good thing?   My brother's current philosophy is to ask,
"Is it true?"  Constant learning sets us up in front of that
question every day, and for sure makes life just as exciting
as it was when I took my first art lessons.

Reading with Heart
acrylic on canvas
8 x 8 inches
Barbara Muir 2010

As a very part time teacher myself, one of the great pleasures
of the job is learning all the time from my students -- and
trying to help them get their fantastic experiences down in
writing.

Have a loving learning day!