{"id":1376,"date":"2011-06-10T10:53:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T17:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2011-06-10T11:03:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T18:03:34","slug":"moore-grandchildren-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/2011\/06\/10\/moore-grandchildren-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Moore Grandchildren Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"

“When are you going to paint your grandchildren?” That’s the question I often get from my father. I usually just say, “When I get good enough.” It does’t impress him much. He’s 94, living with my 92-year-old mother, and he’d try painting all his grands and great-grands himself if he had the energy. But this month, the time came, and I painted ours.<\/p>\n

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The three Cutsforth children, in from Minneapolis.
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The occasion was a family reunion, a gathering of Anne’s and my five grown and married children and their children at a big rented house at Lake Tahoe, California. It was a wild and wonderful week, with plenty of noise, field trips, family reports, and enough space to get away when there was need.<\/p>\n

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The Bergin children, in from Chicago.<\/h6>\n

Every afternoon I got away for a few hours to surreptitiously paint these little 8×10 “portraits” off my i-phone, on which I’d taken photos of the children the first day. The photos themselves were hard enough to get, as the subjects would be moving\u00a0constantly, or maybe transfixed, playing some video game.<\/p>\n

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The Moore children, in from Palo Alto, CA…another due in August.<\/h6>\n

There were 24 of us gathered, half of whom were children. All cousins, always a special relationship, particularly when gathered together so infrequently. Anne and I get around to see them, and they visit us, but it’s rare to be all together. By this summer two more will be with us, as two of the mothers are great with child.<\/p>\n

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The Schmidt children, in from Seattle…another due in July.<\/h6>\n

The family units shown here are in the order of our children, youngest to oldest. It’s not necessarily the order in which I painted them, having to do more with when a given family would be leaving or mode of transport. I was using oil with a drying-time-enhancer. I’d be slowed down when one wouldn’t come out and I’d have to do it again.<\/p>\n

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The Adams family, in from England, the oldest and youngest of the group.<\/h6>\n

I signed them all, even though the children don’t know me as “Hyatt.” \u00a0To them I’m “Baba” (and Anne, “Tata”). And I dated them, something don’t don’t usually do, but this time the year would be significant. The ’11 could look like 111, and I am the third. Our son is the fourth, we’ve just been told Hyatt the fifth is coming!<\/p>\n

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Moore family reunion, June, 2011, Lake Tahoe, California.\u00a0(As with all, click for larger view.)<\/h6>\n

Okay, here we are on a still-chilly mountain morning. Left to right it’s the Moores, Bergins, Moores senior, Cutsforths, Adams (standing) and Schmidts (seated). By now they’re all scattered back to their places, now enriched with small portraits to remember the stage. Anne and I, of course, are enriched just by being part of this growing group.<\/p>\n

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Ongoing and Upcoming Events<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Via Affirmativa<\/h2>\n

In two weeks we’ll be in Glen Ere, Colorado speaking and painting (Anne will be printing) at the Via Affirmativa seminar. For info click here<\/a>.
\nAdjacent to that I will also be conducting a “Loosen Up” Workshop at the\u00a0Hunter-Wolff Gallery in Colorado Springs, June 23-24. For reservations, call: 719-520-9494.<\/p>\n

Laguna Festival of Arts<\/h2>\n

Again this year Anne will be among those showing at this famous event. It’ll run from July 4 till August 30.<\/p>\n

Moore & Moore Art Gallery in Dana Point<\/h2>\n

Open by Appointment
\n949-240-4642<\/p>\n

Semi-Private Coaching for Painters<\/h2>\n

Offering 2-hour sessions on Mondays, and now also on Saturdays
\nin the Hyatt Moore Studio, Dana Point
\nCall\u00a0 949-240-4642<\/p>\n

Printmaking Classes<\/h2>\n

In the Anne Moore studio, Dana Point
\nCall for info: 949-240-4642<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Children are always a challenge to paint, particularly when they’re your own, or your grandchildren. For all that, here are 12 of ours for your entertainment. (They always entertain us.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}