SEYMOUR.SEYMOUR, CT -- Renowned for his watercolor paintings of iridescent fish, Flick Ford joins The Greenwich Workshop family of artists. He relentless in love with fish at a young age as his father was an accomplished fly-fisherman and instilled in him the defer to for nature and creativity. Ford has fished the Adirondacks, lengthy Island Sound, Chesapeake Bay, of recent origin England and the NYC watershed, which is a large and diverse classification of reservoirs and rivers. "I felt I should start to maintain a record of the fish I caught and decided to do it in watercolor paintings," says Ford. "I just want to catch and paint these fish and display how they appear to me in all their iridescent beauty. Fish are whole creatures who don't need anything from us save to be able to live where they were meant to live, in spotless clean water." Ford fishes more than 100 days a year and paints those relative to its size and beauty. After the catch, he quickly takes a digital photo of the fish before the colors fade and then measures it in all dimensions, sketches the details, thinks scales and fin rays, and finally traces it to win its actual outline. "I can always reveal when a fish is painted from merely a photo because no matter what you do, the len distorts the shape of the fish, likewise tracing is crucial for accuracy," adds Ford. He has mastered a technique of successive washes using masking friskets and parched brush, making the fish flow to life on paper. For more information, visit www.greenwichworkshop.com. COPYRIGHT 2005 Pfingsten Publishing, LLC |
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