Some feedback if you have the time free would be appreciated please.
Three new pages have been posted onto the web site www.frickers.co.uk
Can you ‘proof’ read them, test the photographs ‘pop’ up nicely and report back?
That would be very helpful and appreciated.
Month: January 2015
Shipping wine, Carracks arriving in the Gironde
Shipping wine, Carrack fleet entering the Gironde circa 1490 by Gordon Frickers 48 x 61 cms (19″ x 24″), oils. Price of the original £1250.00 ex studio ex frame. How much is that in my currency? Try this free XE Personal Currency AssistantYou can use Paypal on our Payment page or contact … Read more
Did either of my parents paint?
A fun question via my Facebook page. Wilma Kanatzar asked “Was your father an artist by any means? Or your mother?”
Illusions…
A good friend who lives in Paris sent me via Facebook a series of amusing artists illusions. You can see them on my Facebook page, become a friend, follow, share, enjoy. In turn that prompted me to show here, this painting, “Nelson’s Column“.
Exhibitions, another ‘illusion’; it’s a pity I am offered so few worth while exhibitions, “Nelson’s Column” is based upon unrepeatable studious research.
Slow ahead both
I like my paintings to look ‘painterly’, emotional, not architectural, gives more for your imagination, Discuss?
The Trafalgar Dispatch…HMS PIckle
HMS Pickle, as nelson described her, the ubiquitous Pickle, a long job is done. It’s been in my ‘I don’t have the time and energy’ box for quiet a while…Word Count: 5466 words, the Trafalgar Dispatch, HMS PIckle, I have just posted a complete over haul of the text for the popular print and painting “I have urgent dispatches”.
https://www.frickers.co.uk/art/blog/tag/hms-pickle/
Bamora and Canberra
Painting “Bamora and Canberra” Taking advantage of beautiful light I’ve been busy. The task is nearing completion, about 95 % ready. You can see the progress in the attachments.
The first full picture is a repeat of the previous post so you can see the changes.
The nature of inspiration…?
“The loss of the “Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes” measuring 30 x 45 cms (12″ x 18″), was originally painted in 2010, price £1,000. This post is about painting and re painting:
Two Texts revised
Text extensively revised and up dated, “Royal Visit, Plymouth, Drake 400”
Je suis Charlie; je suis Juif?
As best I can I’ve been for some years doing what Charlie had been doing.
I decided to take the issues to the press as best I can via my limited talent as a writer, campaigning for a return to an objective press a return to honest reporting which in his own way was what Charlie H was doing.