The joy of seeing

See what I mean?

Acrylic on canvas

30 x 30 inches

Barbara Muir © 2019

I'm talking about this, because I just got new glasses
for reading and for distance.  Miraculous.  How does that
connect with art?  I think maybe one of the gifts landscape
painters can give to their viewers is the absolute delight
in the natural world -- in what the artists see.  I certainly feel
this, and see it in all of the landscape work I admire.

This painting has taken a while to get to where I can call
it done.  All along my idea was to transmit the incredible
joy I have seeing scenes like this in a park out on the west
side of Toronto.  Getting the colour right for me took awhile,
and then it needed more.  Welcome the total strangers
who posed for me unknowingly, and have completed the
piece for me.  I am over the top grateful to them.

Have a loving what you see day.