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I've ordered some large prints on canvas for my new apartment. I ordered them from China on www.updone.com for a tiny price compared to Swedish print shops. Four days after the order they were delivered.
Gloucester Boats
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HISTORY OF GLOUCESTER, MA.
Howard Blackburn: Heroism at Sea
In 1899, Howard Blackburn sailed solo across the Atlantic from Gloucester, Massachusetts to Gloucester, England: an achievement made all the more remarkable because he had lost all his fingers to frostbite years earlier. Hear more about this incredible moment in Gloucester's history
In the harsh January of 1883, Howard Blackburn signed onto the schooner Grace L. Fears as a doryman, trawling for halibut from a flimsy rowboat on the Grand Banks. Ordered to retrieve the gear as the weather closed in, Blackburn and his mate, Tom Welch, were blown away from the ship in what became a five-day ordeal. On the second night, as they lay to a sea anchor, Welch froze to death. Blackburn decided to row toward land, 60 miles away.One problem: he had lost his mittens, and Welch’s were too small to fit him. Soon his fingers turned black, and the only way he could row was to shape his frostbitten hands into claws so that he could pull at the oars.Blackburn rowed for three days and two nights with the frozen body of his friend for company, beaching the dory on the Newfoundland coast on the evening of the third day. He was taken in by fishermen and nursed back to health, though he lost all his fingers and several toes.Upon his return to Gloucester, the death-defying Blackburn was given a hero’s reception, and donations of money poured into a fund set up for his recuperation. As a proper sailorman should, Blackburn used the cash to open a saloon, where he enthralled visitors with tall and true tales of his adventures at sea.A restless nature cannot be denied, though, and Blackburn yearned for adventure. In 1897 he and some friends bought a schooner and sailed it round Cape Horn and up to Alaska, where a gold rush was under way. A year later they sailed back again, without any gold, but richer for the experience.
Blackburn’s appetite had been whetted, and he was ready for bigger challenges. Blackburn commissioned a 30ft cutter, which he intended to sail across the Atlantic to England. Great Western, as he called her, was gaff-rigged, with heavy spars and canvas sails that grew heavier when wet; how could a man with no fingers, and only the first joint of the thumb on either hand, sail such a boat, let alone accomplish all the other tasks such a voyage demands—cooking, navigation, repairs and maintenance?
The resourceful Blackburn found ways around every problem. He sailed Great Western reefed down to ease the loads, and though his crossing from Gloucester to Portishead took him 62 days, it was an accomplishment that could indeed be described as heroic.
Story source: Peter Nielson.
Info source: Wikimedia Commons
photo: C.A.M
This is the second and last of the canvas prints that I ordered from Qoop.com. You can check out the other one here.
Although both images where shot within 100 yards of each other, they are very different mood-wise from each other. This one is dark and brooding and the other one is bright and cheery. They will make for an interesting pair once I get them mounted on my living room wall !
These two canvases were painted to go over the baby's changing table in the nursery. I blocked out the canvas and did simple design treatments to coordinate with linens in the room. The letters are painted and distressed chipboard so they stand out a bit from the canvas. After painting I distressed the canvases with antiquing glaze.
Made this canvas print at work for a late Christmas present and a thank-you for having us in Zimbabwe gift. It is a photo I got of Regan and his Grandad at the front of a speedboat out on Lake Kariba. Find it here: www.flickr.com/photos/jonnycairns/11241657633/in/set-7215...
Body: Canon 40D
Lens: Canon f1.4 50mm
Edit: Photoshop CS6
Drawing on themes of innocence and experience, 'Canvas' looks atandroids as blank canvases and follows their exploration of human culture frombirth to a bitter end. Their experimentation with clothes and make up takesthem through different stages of our story culminating in the death of one at thethieving, jealous hand of the other.
This story is a celebration of colour and portrays fashion asArt; it shows the notion that our experiences are like coloured brushstrokes on a once blank Canvas.
Photographer Michael furlongerwww.michaelfurlonger.com
Make up & Hair Bunny Allen www.wayofthebunny.com
Make up Alexander Moses
Models Poppy @ Models1 & Colin Hewitt
Photographer Assistant Yiannis Mouzakitis
Stylist Assistant Christina Daly
Editorial published on Fashion e-zine online fashion magazine www.fashionezine.it/editorials/canvas/
Two More Canvases
Tender club, Firenze, 19 ottobre 2013
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Monet painted this canvas near to the Moutiers gorge that is overlooked by the church at Varengeville; it was some distance from his lodgings in Pourville, which can be made out in the background of the painting. This painting was part of the artist抯 first campaign, in 1882, representing the coast around Dieppe, where he found the sea to be superb, though the cliffs less beautiful than at Etretat. He then covered 憈he entire countryside, all the roads ?up and down the cliffs?in search of new subjects. The walks back and forth along the shore and on the cliffs tired him out considerably. During this period, Monet also had his mind set on the Seventh Exhibition of Independent Artists, which Durand-Ruel had decided would open on 1 March 1882.
first canvas 8F (45.5×38.0cm)
這是我開始嘗試畫油畫的第一幅作品,用家裡的一張生活照來臨摹技巧,只是一切都還在摸索階段,所以一些底稿跟定稿之類的步驟還搞不太清楚.不過完成這幅畫的時候實在很開心!
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