Drawing from Life 2025

 

Modelling in Paris

Acrylic on canvas

16 x 20 inches

Barbara Muir © 2024

This is one of the paintings I'm showing in the Drawing from Life exhibition on at the
Heliconian Club this month.  The opening is Saturday, February 1, from 2 - 5 p.m.
I painted the initial painting at my Tuesday night art club meeting for the Don Valley Art Club.
On art group nights I have exactly an hour from the time my husband,

Steven drops me off, until he picks me up.  So with set up, and the group's 10 minute 
break, and clean up, I have about 30 -- 35 minutes to get a portrait. The other painters

are so stimulating, that it sometimes works out. Then when I go home, if I'm pleased 

with the painting, I keep on working on it as I did with this painting.

But when I went to make the image stronger for the show the subject looked so
lonely. I had photos of a beautiful garden we discovered in Paris, and I

decided to change her location and let her be in Paris.

Have a loving your life day.