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Jerry Daniel S. Frech
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APH: Story of the Philippines by FrauV8, literature

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Artist // Professional // Traditional Art
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My Bio
Hello, I am Jerry Frech and my wife is Dana. We are both artists and this particular profile is maintained by Jerry - from time to time I will post my wife's work.

So a little about me. Well, I have been Blessed in my life to have been adopted from the Philippines, to have traveled to 24 countries, live abroad for 11 years and to have survived a war that took my childhood friend, Leonard. Yet, my life is about art and my artistic journey, like yours, has taken a lot of ups and downs but it started like most.

Like most, I started doing art since I was able to pick up a crayon. After drawing several pictures and on several walls, my mom realized my talent! So she took me to a kid's art class with Marie Fox at Windy Acres Creations in Culpeper, VA. I loved it there sooooo much and I really wanted to do art for life but like everyone else I got distracted. When I graduated from High School I was certain that I wanted to be in the military and spend a career doing that. Yet, in 2006 I was deployed to Iraq with the US Air Force (my AFSC: Security Forces - basically a cop) and found myself surrounded by negativity, sorrow and, yes, drama. Without a lot of options to get away from all of the negativity, I escaped the only way I knew how: art.

During my six month deployment, I kept four journals of sketches and writings of the Iraqis, my fellow airman and about my future. I realized right then and there that I was not going to waste my life on anything else but ART. I sold out to my work. On May 13, 2006 (almost a year after my Leonard died in Iraq) I made the decision in my journal to leave the military and go back to school for art.

Now, I have received my B.A. in Art (2010) and currently I am seeking my MFA in Painting at Radford University studying under ZL Feng. No, my journey is not the typical route but what is? Most people graduate from college within 4 - 6 years after High School, right? I did not and I do not regret a single moment of it all. Sure, you are going to fail....sometimes....but it is whether you get back up or not. Remember, for every failure, for everybad piece of art you make it only takes you closer to the one you were meant to create. AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT QUIT!
Also, follow us on Facebook @ www.Facebook.com/frechstudios

or
MorningSketches.blogspot.com
DanaFrech.blogspot.com
www.FrechStudios.com

Current Residence: Radford, VA
Favourite genre of music: I love all music and the ones I don't I respect.
Favourite photographer: Ansel Adams and Nat Geo
Favourite style of art: Pop-Art and Classical Realism
Operating System: MAC
Personal Quote: Talk less, paint more, if they're going to talk about you then let it be about your art.

Favourite Visual Artist
ZL Feng, Thomas Marsh, Gary Bowlings, Marie Fox, Edward Hopper, Steven Assael
Favourite Movies
Too many to consider just one.
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Same thing, too many to consider just one.
Favourite Writers
Robert Frost, CS Lewis, Tolkein, James - the guy that wrote the Book of James
Tools of the Trade
My Canon 50D, Pencils, Paint, a few brushes, and a surface!
Other Interests
God, My Wife, Art, Painting, Drawing, Travelling and meeting people and hearing their stories.
So I'm sitting at my computer checking Facebook and I see a ton of memes on my news feed. I laugh at a few and cringe at others - mainly the dumb ones about "What I really do" because I don't care. In fact, I laugh at maybe one or two out of twenty and the rest are just . . . kinda stupid. But, they all had one thing my art didn't: MILLIONS OF VIEWS! Why? That's when I came up with the idea to create "Make Art Viral" a Facebook group dedicated to sharing the work of other artists in a supportive atmosphere. I thought about it and realized that a lot of these memes have a running dialogue that create debates, sometimes healthy but most time
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Hey all! First off a big thank you and shout out to `Lintu47 (https://www.deviantart.com/lintu47) for suggesting :thumb307014868: as a DD! I wasn't expecting this at all and suddenly I noticed my inbox was full! I will answer all the comments on the piece as soon as I get to them. I can't always write thank you on your walls for "favorite - ing" my work but as always I really appreciate it. Thank you! I am very grateful for this! :) I am also excited to see that a healthy dialogue about First Americans has begun and that was the main goal of this, not a DD, not a sale, not First place at a show, but to get people talking! As always, thank you for the kind comments and
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Well, things have cleared up and now I'm able to start focusing on my own artistic endeavors. Actually, school let out in May but I decided to do some summer classes - which are less stressful and more fun. This summer I decided that I would take a course I have never done! I was going to learn a new medium! I took a jewelry class for the fun of it and wouldn't you know, I loved it! I had more fun in that class than in drawing or painting class. I like painting and drawing but jewelry/metalsmith offered a challenge that I don't get from 2D work. In two dimensional works I think about capturing my message on a flat surface and trying to creat
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Happy Birthday Jerry
:):)
Happy birthday! :cake:
Hi! Featuring your amazing work: [link] on my page for November's Native American heritage month!
Some great stuff in your port. I did some work with a model in Radford a few months ago, grew up myself in Salem, Live in Bluefield now. Love to get together with yall and talk art sometime.