Author: capeannpainter

Paints and Photographs scenes of Gloucester, Massachusetts Waterfront and Cape Ann. http://capeannpainter.wordpress.com/

A Look Back 2009 Gloucester Triathalon

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I got a call at about 5:30am from Joey. He couldn’t get away from the dock to cover the event. I was tired and pissed but I obey’d Joey and I did have a good time. Hopefully Gloucester will get the TRI Back.

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Paul Frontiero Sr. at State of the Art Gallery 18 Pleasant St.

and

Rocky Neck 4 Wonson St. 

Open from 11am to 5pm Tuesday to Sunday.

YOU CAN CALL US AT (978) 395-1783 (Roger Armstrong) )OR (978) 395-1915 (Sharon Pablo) or our gallery at 18 Pleasant St. State of the Art Gallery II at 978-282-5426.

New Paintings were added. If your looking for a certain  Family Fishing Boat or certain type of Scene you can contact me at: frontiero@hotmail.com

My Dad

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Paul F Frontiero Sr

5/03/1925 to 1/13/2012

GLOUCESTER — Paul Francis Frontiero, Sr., 86, of Gloucester, passed away on Friday morning, January 13, 2012, at the Addison Gilbert Hospital.
Born in Boston on May 3, 1925, he was the son of the late Joseph and Anna (Lovasco) Frontiero. During World War II, he had served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1946 as a Seaman 1st Class and Boatcoxswain.
Paul was very proud of his service and had fought in numerous campaigns including landing Marines in the first wave of the invasion of Japan where prisoners from six nations were waiting for them on the docks. For his service he was awarded the American, Asiatic and Pacific medals, Philippine Invasion and Liberation medal, Japan Occupation and Victory medal with three Battle Stars.
As a young man, Paul began fishing with his father and had worked on many boats as an engineer, cook and doryman. He later gave up fishing to raise his three boys and began his career as an artist. Paul was an accomplished artist and his works hang in many private collections around the world.

http://www.stateoftheartgalleryandsculpturegarden.com/FSFRON.html

From my brother Joe;

“My dad never talked about the war much until he got older then it all came back to him. The nightmares and even guilt of watching so many die and him surviving. He was proud but haunted by it. I never realized what is what like for him until I saw that opening seen in Saving Private Ryan and it was just as he described. He was 17 when he enlisted. He had already spent a number of years fishing for weeks at a time to help support his parents. He was one of those members of the greatest generation. Miss you dad!”

Top left; Paul Frontiero Sr 1943

Top Right; My father in his LCVP LSD-17

bottom left: My Father with a Japanese work party. He would ferry them around to different sites.

He would also sneak them fruit when he could.

He was also in the first wave to enter japan after the surrender.

bottom right; Burials at sea.

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“Gloucester Harbor”

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“Gloucester Harbor”

by the Late Paul Frontiero Sr.

1925-2012

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Paul Frontiero Sr. at State of the Art Gallery 18 Pleasant St.

and

Rocky Neck 4 Wonson St. 

Open from 11am to 5pm Tuesday to Sunday.

YOU CAN CALL US AT (978) 395-1783 (Roger Armstrong) )OR (978) 395-1915 (Sharon Pablo) or our gallery at 18 Pleasant St. State of the Art Gallery II at 978-282-5426.

New Paintings were added. If your looking for a certain  Family Fishing Boat or certain type of Scene you can contact me at: frontiero@hotmail.com

Deb Clarke’s Cezanne Phase

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Deb Clarke’s Cezanne Phase

It was ’98 or ’99 when Fred Kepler studied with me.  We both painted when he came for his lessons. My paintings were used as ‘training’ paintings that i used to demonstrate various techniques, color mixing, approaches to composition, etc. as the painting developed. The Cezanne phase painting above is the result of Fred’s visits to the studio over an 8 week period.

The still life above is 26×32″ .  We  set the still life up in the center of the floor under studio lights which were staggered warm/cool/warm/cool in overhead tracts.  Cezanne was the compositional reference.  I did not use Cezanne color theory in my work; I needed to learn how to use black and white gray.   That was my lesson.  Fred’s lesson was composition with warm/cool color theory and drawing thrown in.

Today Fred visits the world’s great paintings with his dear Lenore.  I have seen some terrific paintings that he has done of Lenore, or other people standing in front of the masterpieces.  He has learned to teach himself by copying the best paintings, while sharing his love of art with his wife and having a great time.  He has even come to know the joy of selling some of his work!

So glad I did not throw this painting away.  I was tempted to over the years, but some of those creases are just to awesome not to admire.  oh, the braided rug is one of the Willis family treasures.  I sure hope I didn’t get too much paint on that beauty.

best and onward,

deb.

http://debbieclarke.blogspot.com/

The Dive Locker’s Live Diving Event!

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The Dive Locker’s Diving Demonstration off Webster Pier!

Sunday, May 18, 2014, 2:00 pm

No registration required. : Free

Audience: Family Event

Join us on May 18th from 2:00 to 4:00 pm when we take the vintage Mark 5 Navy diving suit out of Paul Harling’s Diving Locker and give it a test run off the end of our pier. Commercial diver John Harvey will wear the brass diving helmet and the durable rubberized canvas suit in this working equipment demonstration. Experts will be on-hand to answer questions. Come join in the fun!

  

This is a free family event.  For more information, visit www.maritimegloucester.org or call (978) 281-0470.

 
 
 
Melanie Murray-Brown
Director of Program Integration
Maritime Gloucester
www.maritimegloucester.org
23 Harbor Loop Gloucester, MA 01930
mmurray-brown@maritimegloucester.org – 978.281.0470