I've talked about quite a bit here. Please come to the opening if you're in town. It's
on between 2 and 5:30 on November 30, at 35 Hazelton Avenue in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada. There will be cookies, and lots of art to look at.
I paint and draw on commission and for shows. To commission or purchase one of my paintings contact me at: barbara.muir@sympatico.ca A major highlight in my career? Drawing Oprah Winfrey live via Skype for her show "Where in the Skype are you?" Galleries: The Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, New York City. Your positive comments mean the world to me. I'd love to hear from you! Website: barbaramuir.com Instagram: @barbaramuir.art
I think of one of my students in a writing class, when we
wrote journals about a perfect day. He described a
perfect day in the war in Afghanistan. How his division
attacked a village. He was 19 years old when he joined
the army. As he was reading in front of the class, he
almost cried shouting, "it's not the Highway of Heroes,
it's the Highway of Murderers," and ran out of the classroom.
As a girl I was an Ottawa School Patrol (school crossing
guard). We helped people cross the street. And we got to
go by bus down to the war memorial on Remembrance Day.
We marched wearing our school patrol white belts with the
soldiers and police. We felt so special. I'm glad I didn't
grow up to be a soldier, and my thoughts are with my
student today who did.
Have a working on peace day.
I first went public with my website on November 3, 2021, and it is a wonderful thing.
People who want to see my work, don't necessarily want to read my blog, and some
people don't want to look at Instagram. So there it is. https://www.barbaramuir.com
-- wonderfully organized, and a clear way for people to see what I do.
I am over the top grateful to my son Christopher for organizing it, designing it,
and just helping me all the time with my questions about how to handle my sites.
Thank you to everyone who helped me with the website, and to everyone
who has visited it to check out my work, buy my work, and promote me
as an artist.
Have a loving your life day.
Here is another painting for the Off The Wall show opening on
November 30 at the Heliconian Club, 35 Hazelton Avenue.
The show is free of course, and there will be delicious treats!
Plus if you want to buy a painting the prices are sale prices --
very reasonable, and you can take the painting home with you
if you buy it! A super event.
I love the happy mood, colour and texture of this one. Wishing
you a good weekend. Don't let the news get you down.
Have a loving your life day.
We had a very sweet family celebration for Steven today.
His actual birthday was yesterday, but ever since we found
out that his real birthday was November 7, which is our son Sam's
birthday too, we've either celebrated on the 7th, and 8th, or on both.
We discovered when Steven's mother (now gone) was
living in Ottawa, that there had been some mix up when Steven
was born, and his father recorded the wrong date. His mother
explained that the date on his birth certificate was correct.
Our solution? As Sam's birthday was November 7, and
Steven had celebrated on November 8 for his whole life,
we kept that tradition
If anyone deserves two birthday days it's this guy -- such
a kind, generous human, and the love of my life. He
is the best. Happy Birthday Steven.
Have a loving the people in your life day.
Today is my son Sam‘s birthday. We are so happy that he was born.
He has been a wonderful person for all of his life, and we wish him
an amazing day today, and a fantastic year!
I’m showing you a painting that I did a while back. Sam was a wonderful
model. I painted all day today again, working on a larger piece And when
I have time on some smaller pieces for the off-the-wall Show.
Have a loving your life day.
* Computer issues stopped this from publishing yesterday. Happy
Birthday Sam!
Art Group Sketch
Maybe Work in Progress
Acrylic on canvas
16 x 20 inches
Barbara Muir © 2024
Tonight was so fun. With set up, and take down, I might have had
40 minutes total to paint. The model was beautiful, and an
excellent model. The best.
It's a treat to be around amazing artists, and to see their work. So
wonderful. So that was tonight. I've been painting all day -- it's
break time.
Have a loving your life day.
Flowers for you #2
Acrylic on birch panel
5 x 7 inches
Barbara Muir © 2024
A friend urged me to join some painting contests today. I know it’s a good idea.
Right now though I’m working on getting quite a few paintings ready for the
Off The Wall show at the Heliconian Club, 35 Hazelton Ave. in Toronto, opening
on November 30, from 2 to 5:30 p.m. I hope you’ll be there. It's free, and of course
there are treats. Plus the top price for the paintings in the show is $200 and most
of mine will be $100.
That means you could drop into the show, fall in love with a beautiful, small painting,
pay for it, and take home a gorgeous gift for the holiday season. Yes, you can take it
home that day! That’s why it’s called Off The Wall.
I’m really looking forward to this show. I think it’s going to be fun. The work will
be available to be sold at all of the Heliconian events in the month of December.
So if you don’t make it to the opening, there will be a lot of other opportunities
to get yourself a beautiful, small painting. I really hope I get to see you there.
Have a loving your life day.
It's our dog Sally's birthday. We will sing to her and give her a
special treat. We got Sally, who turns 12 today at a very sad time
in our lives. Our almost 14 year old dog died that year in
September, and my mother died a couple of weeks later.
We needed a dog, and visited the Humane Society adoption
Center, and chose Sally. Well in fact she chose us. She was a skinny
dog lying on a ripped blanket. When I sat down on the floor beside
her cage, she pulled my purse into the cage, and that was that. Steven
found me sitting on the floor crying looking at Sally, and the rest has been
12 years of loving this beautiful animal. She no longer looks like this
painting, but she is even more beautiful in our eyes -- her family, and she
loves our family.
Sally was one year old when we got her, and we were her fourth
owners. Tonight when we sing Happy Birthday to her, she will sing
Happy Birthday to herself, and get two cookies and something good to eat.
In the last couple of weeks we've been worried that she's losing her sight,
and maybe her hearing, but she hasn't lost her sense of fun.
Have a loving your life day.