Happy to find this

Pat saves the day

Acrylic on canvas

16 x 20 inches

Barbara Muir © 2011

I was looking for drawings in a basement room we use for storage, and

found this painting which I love.  It was an art group sketch, and has

all the energy and imagination I associate with working quickly to paint

a model in the midst of other artists working hard to do the same thing.

There is a special energy, that I miss so much since we haven't been

able to do our Tuesday night thing, and paint from a model for more 

than four months.  Almost five months!  I miss those Tuesday nights

so badly, and my talented, funny friends.

I went back through my many art group sketches on my blog and found

the story of Pat from nine years ago.  No model came on our art group

meeting that night.  We were about to give up and go home, when Pat

arrived and agreed to model.  And it is obvious that she did a wonderful

job. I love the palette in this painting, the decisive brush work.  I've been

painting all day, and nothing has quite this vibrancy.  So I'll be inspired

by Pat tomorrow.

Thank you Pat, and thank you to my art group at the DVAC.  I miss

you big time.