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"Chasing the Wind" A study of Grumman's F11F Tiger at altitude. The Tiger was a ground breaking aircraft as it was one of the U.S. Navy's first jet fighters that was capable of going supersonic in level flight. |
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"F11F Tiger Pencil Study No. 1" One of two studies of Grumman's F11F Tiger that I did prior to rendering "Chasing the Wind" , above. Such sketches enable me to get the "feel" of how the light plays on the aircraft's surfaces. |
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"F11F Tiger Pencil Study No. 2" The second study of Grumman's F11F Tiger that I did prior to rendering "Chasing the Wind" . These sketches also helped me to settle on the "in-flight" composition that I finally used in the finished painting. |
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"Friday Harbor Soliloquy" Renowned as a superlative utility & bush plane, the DeHavilland Beaver is is still used the world over by small flying services to access areas the large airlines can't reach. Here I've recreated a scene that I witnessed at Friday Harbor, Washington during a trip to the San Juan Islands. |
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"DeHavilland Beaver Study No. 1" A pencil drawing of a DeHavilland Beaver done as I explored ideas for "Friday Harbor Soliloquy" . Rendered from one of the reference photos that I shot at Friday Harbor during our trip to the San Juan Islands. |
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"Itinerant Fliers" This study of polished aluminum in airbrushed acrylic came about as a result of my attendance at the 2010 Auburn-Opelika Airshow where this immaculate vintage Lockheed Model 12 was on display. The title was derived from the migratory nature of birds & airshow attendees. |
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"Itinerant Fliers" - In Progress Demo Click on the image to the left to see the step-by-step demo of this study of polished aluminum done in airbrushed acrylic retouched with gouache. |
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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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"Widge Pencil Study" A study done based on a wartime photo as I worked out how to correctly render Ian Gleed seated in his Hawker Hurricane. |
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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 above. 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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