Flick Ford - Tarpon - Hand Signed - Canvas Edition -image Size: 40"w X 22"h. Limited Edition Of: 50 - There Are Two Groups Of Life On This Planet That Understand Just How Beautiful That Elusive Scaled, Slimy And Eventually Smelly Creature Is: Other Fish And Fisherman. Well, Do We Have An Art Find For You. Flick Ford, Fisherman, Painter, Founder Of A 1980s Garage Band, River Rat, Environmentalist . . . Painter. “i’m Not Sure I Was Born To Be A Fisherman But I Was Born To A Fishing Family,” Explains The Artist, Who Fishes More Than 100 Days A Year In Search Of The Perfect Specimens. “i’ve Probably Used Most Every Kind Of Fishing Method Available To Me. I’ve Experienced Days Of Second Degree Sunburn, Rain Induced Hypothermia, Nearly Lost Myself In A Tornado Storm In The Middle Of A Lake And Drifted Helplessly In The Current Of A River. But I Can Truthfully Say I Have Never Had A Bad Day Of Fishing.” Familiar With Their Habitats, Anatomy And Color Patterns, Flick Hooks Almost Every Fish He Paints, Although Most Are Released Shortly After. After Landing A Fish, He Carefully Measures It And Then Traces Its Outline. Using Taxonomic Methods Reminiscent Of 19th Century Artist Stephen F. Denton, Ford Photographs Every Inch Of The Fish So He Can Count The Scales And Include Exactly The Right Number In His Painting. For Accuracy In Color He Relies On Both His Photographs And His Artistic Color Memory. When Possible, The Fish Are Painted Life Size. The Resulting Paintings Show The Unadorned Beauty Of The Living Fish, With An Unparalleled Accuracy That Has Them Nearly Jumping Off The Wall. Tarpon (megalops Atlanticus) Is A Strong Resister, Especially If Caught In Deep Water. Most Catches Of This Primarily Inshore Fish Are 40 To 50 Pounds Although The World Record Was A 243-pounder.……about The Artist - Flick Ford Biography Flick Ford Fell In Love With Fishing At Age Five. His Father, An Accomplished Fly-fisherman And Talented Commercial Artist/copywriter, Instilled In Him A Deep Respect For Nature And Nurtured His Early Creativity. Born In 1954 In Atlanta, Flick Was Raised In Westchester County, New York. Throughout The 1960s And 1970s Flick Fished The Adirondacks, New England, Long Island Sound, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia And The Woodland Lakes Of Quebec, While Pursuing Two Other Loves: Music (as Lead Singer In A Garage Rock Band) And Art. He Took Formal Watercolor Classes In The 1960s; Figure Drawing And Graphic Design Classes From1973 To 1976 And Then Studied Art At Evergreen State College In Washington State. Flick Moved To New York City In 1978 And Dove Into The Audio/visual Scene Including Indie Film, Video, Underground Publishing, Cartooning, Illustration As Well As Reconnecting With Music. He Performed In The East Village With Several Bands, And Wrote And Sang Lead In The Crazy Pages For Almost Twenty Years. Ford Left New York In 1993, Heading For The Hudson Highlands Where He Quickly Became Obsessed With Fishing The Nyc Watershed. As He Branched Out To Many Of The Brook Trout Places Where He Had Previously Fished In Parts Of The Adirondacks And Vermont, The Effects Of Over Twenty Years Of Pollution, Over-development And Acid Rain Became Painfully Apparent. “i Felt I Should Start To Keep A Record Of The Fish I Caught And Decided To Do It In Watercolor Paintings. I Just Want To Catch And Paint These Fish, And Show How They Appear To Me In All Their Iridescent Beauty.” Today Ford Makes His Home In Putnam County, New York. He Fishes More Than 100 Days A Year And Ties His Own Flies. He Selects Early Every Fish He Paints For Its Relative Size And Beauty. After Landing A Fish, He Quickly Gets A Digital Photo Before The Colors Fade, Carefully Measures It In All Dimensions, Sketches Details, Counts Scales, Fin Rays And Finally Traces It To Get Its Actual Outline. He Has Developed A Technique Of Successive Washes Utilizing Masking Friskets And Painstakingly Detailed Dry Brush That Make These Fish Truly Come To Life On Paper.

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