Getting ready!

Robin earns his stripes

Acrylic on canvas

8 x 8 inches

Barbara Muir © 2019

Today a fellow artist from the Heliconian Club came over to look at the paintings
I’m planning to include in my show, and to talk about plans for the day of
my first opening – next Saturday, April 5 from 2 to 5 p.m., 35 Hazelton Ave.,
Toronto. We were mainly looking at big paintings, so didn't get around to
small ones like this.  But it is Robin season in Toronto, so I may include it.

My friend was delightfully calm, and it was a happy meeting. If you are in
Toronto next weekend – I’d love to see you. At the opening, I I know it’s
gonna be a lot of fun!

Have a loving your life day!

A great painting day

 

Untitled -- Work in progress
Acrylic on canvas

24 x 24 inches
Barbara Muir © 2025

There are days when paintings just come together, almost magically.  It was a beautiful day
today, and I spent most of it in my studio, happily working on finishing touches on some
work.  This needs a bit more refining -- that will happen, and I'm very happy with it.  You

can see the finished work next Saturday, April 5 -- from 2 - 5 p.m. at the Heliconian Hall,
3rds 5 Hazelton Ave., Toronto.

I had been working on this and not finishing it for a few years -- and today -- all is well.

Have a loving your life day!

The sweetness of snow

Night shot -- Sudden spring snowfall
Photo: 
Barbara Muir © 2025

It was starting to be full on spring here -- snowdrops (the flowers) were showing up
in people's gardens. The Type bookstore in Forest Hill Village on Spadina that I love
had a flower box of tulips outside.  And then a day ago, at about this time (evening)
 -- I looked out and the snow was back, covering everything.  My phone lit up the
photos, so you don't get the full effect, but it was awesome.  Then of course it all melted 

But today at lunchtime -- large movie style snowflakes were falling.  They didn't last,
but they sparkled in the sunlight, and looked so beautiful.  Then of course full on
spring sun made them disappear.

Later I was walking my dog, and another dog walker and I laughed about the snow.
It had returned in very small sporadic flakes.  We agreed that it was beautiful, and
then laughed and said that we were clearly Canadian.

Have a loving your life day.

Art of the kitchen -- a sweet still life

 

Kitchen scene
Photo
Barbara Muir © 2025

Hi dear friends,

I am super tired tonight, after a great day painting, and a lovely walk
with a friend. So I don't like to show you work until it's complete.
Instead I'll let the delightful available still life from the kitchen
be the art on the blog tonight.  

Have a loving your life day.

More celebrations

 

Steven and me at the 

beginning

(Yes I was not blonde yet)

Photo
Wallace Muir © (my father)

It's out Monthaversary of our wedding day today, and as on

every month we toasted one another and wished each other
Happy Monthaversary. Here's a post from a former blog on
the topic.  Corny yes.  Is love corny, then I'm all for corny.

"People who read my blog often comment on how we
are always celebrating. Of course that's not true, but
Steven and I do notice a couple of important dates
each month that are just ours -- our Monthaversary
of our first date, and our Monthaversary of our wedding,
which happened 11 months after our first date.

Last year on this day I wrote to you that love is coming,
if it isn't in your life right now, and you want it. I could
never have imagined meeting someone who loved me
from minute one, before meeting Steven.  And I wish that
love for you in your life.

Are we perfect?  Not at all.  We argue quite a bit, but do
we love each other -- yes. To the moon and back."

Have a loving your life day.

So glad we got to see the last day of Eleanor Lowden’s solo show

Twilight Sky
Acrylic
Eleanor Lowden ©

Steven and I hurried over to Leslie Grove Gallery today to see Eleanor Lowden’s
solo show on the last day of the exhibition. Her work is beautiful, vibrant,
cheerful, and moving.

We had a wonderful conversation with Eleanor, and I got to watch her paint a
 beautiful, small landscape.  It was a treat to see how she painted,
 and that she could keep a conversation going at the same time. Impressive.

If you don’t know her work, check it out on her website. If you do know
her work, it sounds like she has lots of shows coming up, so do yourself a
favour and see her beautiful work in person.

Have a loving your life day!

Happy Monthaversary plus a belated Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day celebration!

 

Lucky Shamrocks

acrylic on birch,

5 x 5 inches

 Barbara Muir © 2012

SOLD ♥

Me and my sweetheart Steven, with some 

Valentine's Day bluebirds
(These photos were taken at
the Louvre by a friend who
lives in Paris.)

It was a pretty great Monthaversary of our first date today. We celebrated
Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day with the family.  The most fun. 
The younger family members collaborated with a neighbour to create
comedy routine, after comedy routine -- and had us laughing all afternoon.

Now it's movie night, so we will talk again tomorrow. I hope you also had

a wonderful day.  If you're wondering why we're celebrating these things

now -- it's because it was when we could get together.  Simple -- and fun!

Have a loving your life day!