Marine paintings unfinished, ekkkk! Laperouse at Botany Bay not started and the weeks before May 23rd and the exhibition at the European Parliament down to single figures.
Cool calm and collected used to be my mantra for start lines when racing in big fleets; I have found another use for it guess what?
Month: March 2011
New and Old ~ Skype exchanges
[22/03/2011 23:35:12] Gordon Frickers: Ok. Anyway I should be finding out if Cambria was re floated yesterday and looking for Art and marine publications to send my press release to. The latter is now an urgent task. Over all though I am making steady weekly progress re Brussels. I’m a bit panicy about getting all done but so far so good.
Cambria features in my new painting “New and Old”. Here is a detail ~
[22/03/2011 23:38:43] Michael Baker: Is that – Cambria, a 92ft Thames sailing barge – http://www.yachtingmonthly.com/news/519972/sailing-barge-to-sail-again ?
Frick ~ what is in a name?
“Frick” and seems to mean Herald of some one similar, a messenger, quite appropriate for a painter?
I discovered this quite recently (blog entry 03/03/11) thanks to Hans Fricker who contacted me via Skype.
My family name seems to be connected to a village in Switzerland, the village of Frick.
Cutting edge, have your say…
I’m working on a large marine painting (30″ x 40″ = 762x1016mm), marine ish that is, of the Bay of Antibes at sunset viewed from Cap Antibes near the lighthouse.
I’ve been struggling to find the lighting effect in the sky and land that I have in my vision.
To my surprise a visiting friend who used to help run the renowned Painting School of Montmiral said “Stop!”
New and old, of ships, paintings, photography and new prints
On the subject of photographing paintings I also finished “New and Old” this week (mentioned on this blog, with sketch 24th Feb) and have the new “Trafalgar Dawn, the French Perspective” 99% finished so you may expect to see them both appear on this blog in the next week.
Photographing paintings, best results conclusions
Using an SLR Canon D 60. If you use this info other from this site and blog, please credit generously.
Doing so enhances your credibility and ours , win win.
This also means, coming soon, pictures and histories of a veritable collection of new paintings, book mark this blog for a feast!
Newsletter 9 Your European Parliament Exhibition invitation edition
What should an artist wear at this prestigious European Parliament Expo?
Your suggestions please…
“Life on the ocean wave” – a unique art event in the heart of Europe.
Invitation – Would you and your guests would like an invitation to preview “Life on the ocean wave”?
Photographing Paintings
“I thought the pictures on your web site look great but now I’ve seen the amazing originals, why don’t they look more like the originals?”
How many times have many of us artists heard that?
Our need here is for as natural, faithful reproduction of original paintings, including marine paintings as is possible.
Contacting Gordon Frickers Marketing
Updated Gordon Frickers’ contact details. See: Contacting Gordon Frickers Marketing