March 9th, 2010
I still find photographing marine art, well, any paintings, stressful.
I am yet to find a camera or film that always makes a good job of this even under ideal conditions and worse, some paintings are more difficult to copy than others, why?
I have just re photographed two of the largest major marine paintings in my collection, “Ice Maiden” ( see page http://www.frickers.co.uk/prints.html for a limited edition copy) and “Yamaha“,
also the new painting “Racing Yachts“.
So where is the problem? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: an ideal gift, Canon Cameras, Maiden, Marine Art, marine paintings, Marine Photography, Racing Yachts, Rolex Nautor Swan European Regatta, Yamaha
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March 8th, 2010
Even the Tarn weather has been a bit extreme this past week as the pics here taken on successive days demonstrate.
It has been a bit extreme for me work wise as well with less time for painting and learning French than I’d like.
The weather week opened with mild sunny days and has finished with snow and – 8 C nights, happily my work has produced some great results. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Blue funnel steamer, Super yachts 2010, TALTHYBIUS, The Port of Chester, yachting
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March 3rd, 2010
The new marine painting of the Alfred Holt Blue Funnel Steamer, last mentioned on this blog on the 7th of February is now complete.
It is also sold.
Drat!
Now I only have one “Blue Flue” marine art left… http://www.frickers.co.uk/marine-art/agapenor_bombay.html 
The Blue Funnel steamer Talthybius is not even on the web site yet, sold in less than a month so I’ll show you am few details below.
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Tags: Agapenor, Alfred Holt, blue flue, Blue funnel steamer, Marine Art, marine painting, TALTHYBIUS
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March 1st, 2010
Gibraltar, Nelson, HMS Minerve, HMS Captain is beginning to reveal how the final marine painting will look.
There have been some significant developments in this marine painting including Gordon Frickers is able to be the first, here to show some results of collaboration, new research into the quality of the bright yellow preferred by Nelson on his ships, more on that below…
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Tags: Australia, Botany Bay, Gibraltar, HMS Captain, HMS Minerve, HMS Victory., Horatio Nelson, laperouse, Nelson, new marine painting, Peter Goodwin, port of Gibraltar, Royal Plymouth Corinthian Yacht Club, Trafalgar
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February 26th, 2010
The new marine painting of superyachts at dusk is progressing steadily as you can see here. 
Still not settled is which yachts to include, open to suggestions, do you have any in mind? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Devonport Royal Dockyard, Maltese Falcon, new marine painting, Sarafsa, super yacht, Superyachts
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February 25th, 2010
Regarding Josephine De Saint Seine, artist, friend and painter based at Marseille: by way of helping a fellow artist, painter here is a bit of news…
Josephine prépare 2 expositions, en Mai à la Galerie Mourlot à Marseille, en Novembre à la galerie El Borj à Tunis….. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: artist, galerie El Borj, Galerie Mourlot, LinkedIn, painter
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February 20th, 2010
Back in a wet damp grey Itzac after a week of adventure in the South of Brittany, I’ll post the story and lots of pop up photos very soon.
Thus, no marine painting last week.
I’d been to the south of Brittany before but some how previously managed to miss the best bits!
My departure was delayed 24 hours by more snow which made the hill out of Itzac impassable even to 4 x 4 ’s.
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Tags: marine painting
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February 17th, 2010
Found a new house, great place for marine painting, should I rent it?
South facing with brilliant luminosity, inspirational views and quiet ( half of the property on the right in the attached pop up photo, the other building is a bar restaurant) ).
Tags: marine painting
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February 13th, 2010
Been a bit cold here at Itzac of late, I was hoping to depart yesterday but the village hill was impassable with ice and snow.
Here is a photo of neighbouring Compagnac which I passed this morning on my way North North North.
I am thinking quite hard on where I should have a studio after Itzac?
I plan to visit S Brittany including the docks at St Nazaire to look at the shipping industry there and soon I’ll have another look at the Cote d’azur. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: marine painting
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February 11th, 2010
More snow today, it has been bitterly cold for the past 3 days with a North wind, the pop up pic opposite shows a car stuck outside my cottage…
Today’s task is to work on the larger marine painting of the Cattewater, Plymouth by moonlight, a scene showing the clipper Samuel Plimsoll loading emigrants Australia bound.
The studio space is very limited, I need more space but where and how, any suggestions? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Canon SLR 350D, Cattewater, emigrant, emigrants Australia, Kent Institute of Art and Design, marine painting, Medway College of Art, plymouth, Samuel Plimsol, Samuel Plimsoll
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