A fantastic assignment -- looking back

Sara
Black marker on watercolour paper

9 x 12 inches

Barbara Muir ©

Excerpt from a blog in January, 2009

"On November 22nd, 2008,  talking to my friend Flora on Skype
I decided to draw her. I had a sketchbook and pens on my desk,
and whipped off a little marker drawing while we talked, which I
posted.

A Chicago journalist, Howard Wolinsky, saw that drawing and 

contacted me. On December 5th he did a video interview with me
over Skype and you can find that on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KPuzn3FcIE

The Public Relations company for Skype, Kaplow in New
York, saw that interview, and decided to hire me for an event
they were doing at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas,
Nevada. So on January 9, from 11 p.m. Toronto time, to 1:30
a.m. on January 10, I drew five portraits of people attending a Skype
party. This whole project would have been impossible without the
wonders of Skype, and wouldn't have happened at all if it weren't for
the blog, and Howard."

The project was so much fun, and the people incredibly helpful.

The setting for the portraits in Las Vegas was lit like a cocktail
party, and the client very kindly adjusted the light because

I couldn't see my subjects well enough to draw them. 

Sara was the woman who organized the whole project, and I'm

very grateful to her, for an exciting project, that ultimately

led to me being on the Oprah Winfrey show, and on several

other TV shows. A delightfully happy memory for a Tuesday night

when I'm teaching.  

Have fun remembering wonderful events in your creative life.