{"id":1583,"date":"2011-12-29T12:35:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T19:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2011-12-29T12:35:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T19:35:31","slug":"new-blog-in-the-new-year-and-art-of-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/2011\/12\/29\/new-blog-in-the-new-year-and-art-of-last\/","title":{"rendered":"New Blog in the New Year, and Art of Last"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The year just passing was generally happy, productive and prosperous, about the best one could expect of an unemployed, multi-careered, aging easel painter. Notice I don’t used the \u201cR\u201d word. Retirement is for those who no longer work, or at least no longer have to. But it’s time to start something new.<\/p>\n

In 2011, somewhere between 100 and 300 paintings were made\u2014closer to the latter if one includes rough sketches, practices, explorations, figure and face studies from the model, workshop demonstrations, ideas that didn’t go anywhere, as well as all the projects of great hope and happy result. Though just a fraction, enough paintings sold to keep us in essentials . . . food, art supplies and travel. With our family spread all over the country and England, travel matters.<\/p>\n

But for all life’s fullness, there were a few days in December where I recognized \u201ca damp, drizzly November in my soul.\u201d That’s Ishmael’s line in the opening to Moby Dick, and I, like him, began finding myself in a funk, or as he put it, \u201cgrowing grim about the mouth\u201d and having to exert \u201ca strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street and methodically knocking people’s hats off.\u201d Not really, but I felt I had to do SOMETHING to shake the malaise.<\/p>\n

Rather than follow Ishmael and go to sea, I’ll follow Melville. He started writing.<\/p>\n

It’s nothing new, really. I had such leanings long before Painting called out to me in the streets on an evening in November (really) some 15 years ago and drew me\u00a0irresistibly\u00a0to herself. “Painting rather takes over,” as Father Vincent Van Gogh discovered. But he also wrote . . . more than any other artist, thanks to his daily correspondence with his life-supportive brother. He wrote on many topics and it’s good reading. I have three volumes of his mind on my shelf.<\/p>\n

So I’ll do the same.<\/p>\n

What I’ll write, I don’t know myself. It’ll be something of a blank slate. I’ll start a blog and call it that. Blank Slate.<\/em> Allows for anything. A journey without a map. But of discovery just the same.<\/p>\n

I’ll keep painting, to be sure, ever pursuing that illusive white whale. The other blog, this one, the e-gallery<\/em>, will continue on, with its review of themes and directions. This one is more or less monthly; I’m thinking the Blank Slate<\/em>\u00a0will three times a week.<\/p>\n

Full disclosure: Though there will be no intent at persuasion, like with any writer of his own thoughts, there will be evidence of my world view, and that, like Van Gogh’s, is Christian. (That because of another spirit that called out to me in the streets, in Mexico, some 40 years ago.)<\/p>\n

So, if you’d like to see these Blank Slates<\/em>\u00a0filled in as we go, just click the option below. You’ll get it as e-mail notification. Or if you’d rather just drop in from time to time to see what’s new, they’ll be posted on the Hyatt Moore Painter<\/em> website under the Blank Slate<\/em> heading. You can always opt on later, or off at any time.<\/p>\n

We’ll start at the first of the year. Look for it January 1.<\/p>\n

To subscribe, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Click above to view larger. Anne’s sold work not shown as bunching them up like this would really do them no justice.<\/h6>\n

Art of the Year Past<\/h2>\n

Just as a quick review, here is a representative sample of the painting sold and now enjoying new homes in the year, 2011. They don’t look their best, all bunched together like this, and the scale is really thrown off. For example, the painting of pears in the bottom row was about eight inches tall and the violinist next to it was four feet tall, and the red abstract next to her was approaching 6 feet square. The mix of subject matter and varying degrees of realism to abstract is interesting, but not particularly instructive. It only shows that I like a wide range, as do, apparently, my buyers. And so it will likely be in the year(s) to come.<\/p>\n

Meantime, we wish you a happy and productive one.<\/p>\n

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Ongoing and Upcoming Events<\/h1>\n

Blank Slate<\/h2>\n

The new blog, Blank Slate<\/em> will feature musings and meanderings, insights and entertainments, and words rather than brushes for the art. Watch for it starting in the new year. \u00a0To subscribe, click here.<\/a><\/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 Wednesday and Saturday mornings
\nin the Hyatt Moore Studio, Dana Point.
\nFor more info click\u00a0Art Coaching Flyer<\/a>.
\nOr call\u00a0 949-240-4642<\/p>\n

Printmaking Classes<\/h2>\n

In the Anne Moore studio, Dana Point
\nTo see more of Anne’s, work go to:\u00a0www.annesprints.com<\/a>
\nCall 949-240-4642<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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