Actually I had another e-gallery half prepared to send you, but due to a computer glitch, that one will have to wait. It featured the house, in which we will be having a show this weekend. The weekend will pass, but the house will stay, so we’ll hold that for another day.
Fingerless Gloves, oil, 12×16
Casting about for what I might share, here are a couple of little pieces done during an evening with a few other painters and a model. Such sessions are for the exercise of it, because practice is everything, and painting from life is more challenging that painting from pictures. What I’m after is a certain likeness, yes, but more, a feel, a movement, a sense of life in it all. And though it’s a three-hour session, about half way through I don’t know what to do any more (without making it a different kind of painting) so I stop and move on.
Fingerless Gloves Akimbo, oil, 16×12
And what to move onto but another place in the studio for a different perspective, this time more of a close-up and slightly below. Once again it came together pretty quickly. It wasn’t long before the painter behind me, a very accomplished artist and the leader of this group I’d joined that evening said, “Stop, that’s a Manet.” I do remember Manet painted one something like that. Basically he, Bruce, was reminding me that, “It takes two people to paint a painting: one to hold the brush and the other to take it away from him before he ruins it.” As it was I went a little farther, just because I thought I’d somehow be cheating if I didn’t, but it started to look over-painted so I quit. Thanks, Bruce.
Again, this is just a quick taste. These and a whole lot more will be all over the walls this weekend, both mine and Anne’s. This is the weekend that much of it is priced at 30 percent off, or more. I know a lot of you are at too great a distance, but if there’s anything you want to talk about from the websites, that’s good too.
Just go to www.mooreandmooreart.com.
Fall Show at the House, Nov. 21, 22
For the invitation, go here.
Or just note the following:
November 21, 22
Saturday, 4:00-9:00
Sunday, 1:00-5:00
33752 Big Sur
Dana Point, California 92629
(949) 240-4642
9:19 am
Good Sketches. I wish I had that second person to take the brush out of my hand. I can’t fight the one who resides in me.
Maybe you could turn to my refurbished website to see some better pics than on the one you’ve posted above.
http://web.me.com/tonyjoyce1
11:36 pm
Tony Joyce.
I can’t believe what you said.
Surely you are kidding. And to include your own website as a place “to see some better pics than the one you’ve posted above.” What were you possibly thinking? Or were you?
“Better pics” are still in the eye of the beholder, correct?
Sheesh.
9:17 pm
Great Hyatt! I like your work and enthusiasm!
With my appreciation.
Svetlana.
1:33 am
I wish I would have known about your show earlier. I’d love to get my husband over to see more of your work. I do appreciate the comment about taking away the brush before the painting becomes over done. (I’ve exercised the same principle with little ones in Sunday School. Their work is incredible right before they turn it into a big black blob :)
Are you doing a Christmas Show too? Sorry I missed it this weekend! My bad.
6:21 am
Katlina,
Sorry you missed it. There won’t be a Christmas show. However, the house is a gallery every day we’re in it. Anyone can just give us a call and be welcome. 949-240-4642
12:53 pm
Hyatt and Anne-
As always, it was a treat to visit your home/gallery. I especially enjoyed the flamenco dancers and the shear size of your work. While the art is overwhelmingly breathtaking, the few moments we had together talking may have been the highlight of the evening. I received positive feedback from the 7 guests I brought with me. I am hopeful that Olga follows through with lessons. She is a wonderful woman and would undoubtedly benefit from your coaching. Keep up the good work.
JDC