Diary

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie , the murderous attack on this significant author is an outrage. As is the claim that the motive is unknown. This is an attack on all people who value #freedom , #Liberty and wish for brighter, peaceful days. This accompanying painting is new on my website page, one of the ‘Sunrise Series’, https://artfrickers.com/s-w-france/sunrise-project/ … Read more

Wet on Wet

Vilaine tableaux

Wet on wet painting, how do you do that?

Vilaine tableaux
Vilaine Sunrise unfinished, 17.03.22

81 x 51 cm (32″ x 20″), oils, available for sale.

“La rivière Vilaine, le lever du soleil, le premier jour du printemps.”

Following on my posts of 14 March & 16th, here is the next ‘stage’ in the development of this painting.
Wet on wet, a technique full of little surprises, best suited to oil painting is fun as one is never in complete control.

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Signatures

Frickers, artist, painter

Signature, does it ‘matt’ er? Gordon Frickers, artist, an article about the value of signatures.

Artist to artist, here’s some questions and answers of interest to all painters on the ‘Art Explorers With Alice Sheridan’ page.
Alison Blynn Gaiman asked “I’m getting some paintings framed (paper under glass). I don’t want to sign my work on the paper, and the framer said a lot of people sign their names on the matte.
Do any of you do this? If so, do you use your normal signature? Or… do you have a different signature just for your art?”
I replied:
🎨Good questions, I would never sign on a ‘matt’ as it’s not part of the painting.
I have seen this done but never by top mast painters.
Gordon Frickers

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Google Stupidity

Google Stupidity. Is your mobile phone 100 % reliable everywhere all the time? Google thinks it is. It is bad enough that Google discriminates by giving SEO low ratings to websites like my two sites while blatantly promoting the ‘big boys’ who can afford to pay staff to ensure their business has a high SEO … Read more