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"Widge" Ian "Widge" Gleed was a young fighter pilot & flight leader who became Squadron Leader of Number 87 Squadron, R.A.F. flying Hawker Hurricanes during the Battle of Britain in World War II. Click on Widge's portrait to see this undertaking in oil & acrylic on canvas. |
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"Widge" - In Progress Demo Click on Widge's image to the left to see the step-by-step demo of this oil & acrylic on canvas undertaking. |
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"The Gruesome Twosome" The most successful Lead/Wingman team of the Tuskegee Airmen, 1LT Lee Archer and his partner, CPT Wendell Pruitt, perform a protective weave over B-24's of the 451st Bomb Group in their P-51C Mustangs in this boxtop painting commissioned by Accurate Miniatures. |
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"Fair Skies Over England" A 334th Fighter Group pilot wings his P-51 over the English countryside, sometime after D-Day in 1944. This airbrushed acrylic rendering was a labor of love as the P-51 Mustang is an all time favorite aircraft of mine. |
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"Under New Management" An unusual aviation subject, this rendering depicts a Dewoitine D.520 that has been impressed into service by the Germans as a fighter trainer during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II. |
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"Hawker Hurricane Study" This straightforward pencil rendering is a study for the in-progress painting of "Widge" Gleed's Hurricane fighter shown below. Drawn to get the "feel" of how the plane's shape affects the play of light and shadow on its surface, it has been an invaluable exercise. |
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"Me-109 Fighter Study" Willy Messerschmitt's Me-109 is the subject of this pencil rendering. Done as a study for a future painting, it is depicted at a forward field airstrip location during the high tide of Hitler's invasion of Russia. |
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"Macchi MC-202 Fighter" The Italian Macchi-Castoldi firm was the manufacturer of this trim and asthetically pleasing fighter plane. It is considered one of the best aircraft that came out of Mussolini's Fascist regime. It was drawn as a study for a future painting project that never achieved fruition. |
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