Here you may see updates about my ongoing art projects, juried shows, presentations, and promotional activities. I invite you to contact me with your comments. Any and all feedback will be appreciated!
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Here you may see updates about my ongoing art projects, juried shows, presentations, and promotional activities. I invite you to contact me with your comments. Any and all feedback will be appreciated! |
| To view previous posts in my 2009 Blog click HERE. |
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| "Days of Silver Rails & Golden Dreams" gets front page coverage in the Fort Payne Times-Journal newspaper! |
| This article ran in yesterday's edition of the Times-Journal. This story came about due to a press release and a flyer with an image of the painting that I sent to the editor a few weeks ago. My thanks to Managing Editor Jared Felkins & reporter Lindsay Slater for this coverage of my work! Needless to say, as an artist, I am very grateful for the exposure! |
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| I present Steve Freer - the Director of the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum - with a complimentary copy of "Days of Silver Rails & Golden Dreams" ! |
| Last February, when I was first doing my research on this project, I drove up to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
to shoot reference pictures of their rolling stock & locomotives. When I arrived at Steve Freer's office without an appointment, he kindly listened to my request & graciously granted me
access to rove freely about the TVRM's facilities & exhibits to shoot as many reference photos as I needed. Without the kind cooperation of Steve & the TVRM staff my efforts to bring
this work to fruition would have been much more difficult! With my open edition print series now available, I thought it appropriate that I present him with a copy as a small token of thanks! The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum is a one-of-a-kind non-profit organization that is more than a stuffy, dusty collection of exhibits. It is a operational local, short-line railroad equiped with authentic steam & diesel-electric locomotives that routinely pull fully restored passenger trains between Grand Junction Station & East Chattanooga Depot! TVRM also conducts excursion train trips through the lovely Hiwassee River Gorge! To learn more, visit the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's website by clicking HERE . |
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| The "Days of Silver Rails & Golden Dreams" prints are available & you can now order them -
and all of my other art & prints - directly from this site using your credit & debit cards or with PayPal through our secure online retailer |
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| This Open Edition Digital 13" x 19" Archival Print is available for $30.00 plus $7.95 shipping & handling. Click HERE to navigate to my gallery display page for this artwork, then click the View the Print link to the print display page where you can click the Buy Now From CCNow link to place your order. It is a simple, easy, secure way to own any one of my originals or prints! |
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| Estelle & I attend the American Society of Aviation Artists Annual Forum in San Diego! |
| The A.S.A.A. Annual Forum took place earlier this month from June 7th through the 12th & Estelle and I flew out to San Diego to participate. We are pictured below with with fellow attendees Stan & Cheryl Vosburg on the flight deck of the USS Midway during our tour of the ship, which is now a floating museum in San Diego Bay. This was but one of the many activities that we were able to enjoy during the Forum. To see more, click HERE . |
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| "Days of Silver Rails & Golden Dreams" is finished! |
| To see the last of the in-progress images, click HERE to navigate to my complete step-by-step demo of this project. |
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| With the addition of the distant freight train & the smoke plumes to the trains & the mill smokestack, I am now in the homestretch on completing this painting! |
| To see the latest in-progress images, click HERE to navigate to my complete step-by-step demo of this project. |
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 I'm delighted to announce that my friends
at FineScale Modeler have kindly posted this piece (at left) in their New Products section on page 21 of the July 2010 issue. My thanks to Editorial Associate Monica Freitag for this
promotion of my work to their readers! |
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| Our young couple is now engaged in that last, longing look into each other's eyes as they say their sad, sweet goodbye! With the people on the loading platform now complete, I've moved on to finish the water column by adding a patina of rust! |
| To see the latest in-progress images, click HERE to navigate to my complete step-by-step demo of this project. |
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| I'm bringing the figures to life in "Days of Silver Rails & Golden Dreams" ! The people on the loading platform are no longer just dead white space in this painting! |
| To see the latest in-progress images, click HERE to navigate to my complete step-by-step demo of this project. |
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| I've been making lots of progress on "Days of Silver Rails & Golden Dreams" since my last post: highlights have been added to the clouds, revisions to the vegetation have been made & the Davis Hosiery Mill has been completed! |
| I'm now finishing all of the details of the setting for our depot scene. To see more, click HERE to navigate to my complete step-by-step demo of this project. |
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| With the roof now completed on "Days of Silver Rails & Golden Dreams", I've now moved down to the water column & given it a rusty orange underpainting. |
| I'm now attempting to recreate the rusty appearance of this old cast iron device that was a commonplace fitting at railroad depots during the age of steam. To see more, click HERE to navigate to my complete step-by-step demo of this project. |
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| With the walls of the Depot now complete on "Days of Silver Rails & Golden Dreams", I'm now working on the roof. Check out the latest post to my Work-In-Progress Demo on this project! |
| I'm now attempting to capture the character of the old Depot's weathered copperplate roof. To see more, click HERE to navigate to my complete step-by-step demo of this project. |
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| Making progress rendering the sandstone walls of the Depot on "Days of Silver Rails & Golden Dreams". Two new images are now posted to my Work-In-Progress Demo on this project! |
| Over the past few days I've been steadily rendering the Depot's sandstone walls in colored pencil, attempting to achieve a better capture of the character & texture of this building over my previous version. To see more detailed images of this process, click HERE to navigate to my complete step-by-step demo of this project. |
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| I've begun to render the Depot on "Days of Silver Rails & Golden Dreams". The latest images are now posted to my Work-In-Progress Demo on this project! |
| With the sky done & some airbrushed pre-shading applied to the groundwork in my previous step, I've now removed the Frisket film & turned my attention to rendering the Depot. To see more detailed images of this process, click HERE to navigate to my complete step-by-step demo of this project. |
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| Painting the sky on "Days of Silver Rails & Golden Dreams". New images are now posted to my Work-In-Progress Demo on this project! |
| Well, with the pre-shading of the clouds done in my previous step, I've moved on to getting the sky rendered! To see more detailed images of this process, click HERE to navigate to my complete step-by-step demo of this project. |
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| The latest photos documenting my progress on "Days of Silver Rails & Golden Dreams" are now posted to my Work-In-Progress Demo on this project! |
| Well, all of the final details have been researched & revised and the final drawing has now been transferred to the support, and I am now making steady progress on this rendering. To see more detailed images of this process, click HERE to navigate to my complete step-by-step demo of this project. |
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| The Grand Opening of the Korean War Jets Exhibit at the Southern Museum of Flight! |
| Last Friday, March 5th, I had the great pleasure to attend the grand opening of the Korean War
Jets Exhibit at the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Alabama. This exhibit highlights the defection of Lieutenant No-Kum-Sok, the North Korean pilot who delivered
an example of the rare and illusive Mig-15 into the hands of the United States military. Former North Korean pilot Kenneth Rowe (Lt. No-Kum-Sok), F-86 Sabre pilot & Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame member John Lowery, Tom Feltman - the first airman to arrive on the scene at the time of Rowe's landing - and Korean War Jet Ace General Charles Cleveland, and a host of other Korean War veterans were in attendance. To see more images from this event, click HERE . |
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| The Aviation Art of Raymond Waddey is now available exclusively through James Green Fine Art! |
| I'm very pleased to announce that I will now be representing Reagan, Tennessee aviation artist Ray Waddey through this website! Ray is a prolific painter of airplane art with an extensive range of originals & prints that he has chosen to offer to you through James Green Fine Art! You may visit our Ray Waddey Aviation Art gallery by clicking HERE . |
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 I'm delighted to announce that Associate Editor Walt Lankenau has posted this piece (at left) on page 48 of this issue in the magazine's "Railroadiana" section - with an image of the print! He has also given a very succinct description of the original work, availability of the prints, and how to order, with mention of my web page address! My thanks to Walt & the staff of Railfan & Railroad for this promotion of my work! |
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| My Work-In-Progress demo on the companion piece to "Southern Pride" is now posted to my Wheels & Rails Gallery! |
| I'm happy to announce that I am now making progress on the companion painting to my earlier Fort Payne Depot rendering. The new work is entitled "Days of Silver Rails & Golden Dreams" and depicts a scene at the old Fort Payne Depot from the late 1920's when passenger train travel was in its heyday. To see more detailed images of this process, go to my complete step-by-step demo of this project by clicking HERE . |
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| Hyperscale's webmaster Brett Green has graciously posted
this piece (at right) in the Gallery section on his fabulous website! As I have stated before, Brett's website has been an on-line "Mecca" for model builders and researchers for years! Hyperscale is a great site to visit for artists like me who need a quick, easy to navigate source for imagery and information on the aviation & military subject matter that we like to render in our art. I invite you to navigate the link above & pay his site a visit. My thanks to Brett Green for this promotion of my work! |
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| Famed Tuskegee Airman Ace Lt. Colonel Lee A. Archer passes away at at the age of 90. |
| It was with sadness that I received news from a friend in the Atlanta chapter
of the Tuskegee Airmen of the passing of Lt. Colonel Lee Archer. The news has left me regretful that I never pressed getting an opportunity to meet this
great man. I did, however, gain enormous respect for him, and all of his fellow Tuskegee Airmen, when I had the opportunity to paint "The Gruesome
Twosome" for Accurate miniatures in 2008. My research for that project revealed a great deal about Colonel Archer that I had not previously read
or heard about. Born in Yonkers on September 6, 1919, and raised in Harlem, he left New York University to enlist in the Army Air Corps in 1941, and initially he was rejected for pilot training at that time because he was black. But when the segregated pilot training program at Tuskegee, Alabama was opened, Archer applied, was accepted and received his wings in July 1943. He and his flying partner & leadman, Captain Wendell Pruitt, became known as "The Gruesome Twosome" while serving in the 302nd Fighter Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group, operating out of southern Italy. Archer and Pruitt were the most successful Leadman / Wingman team of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, and Archer became their only "Ace" with five confirmed air-to-air kills. He was also credited with an additional six enemy aircraft destroyed on the ground. He remained in the Army Air Corps after World War II and rose to the rank of Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. After retiring from the military in 1970, Archer joined General Foods Corporation, becoming one of the few black corporate vice presidents of a major American company in that time. Later, he became a venture capitalist running North Street Capital Group, a small-business investment firm, and after retiring from General Foods in 1987, he founded his own venture capital firm, Archer Asset Management. He is pictured below in a photo during one of his many public appearances. |
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| Introducing "Southern Pride" to the public at the Fort Payne Depot Museum! |
| Pictured below with me is my host, Museum Curator Ann Houston, at the unveiling of "Southern Pride" at the Fort Payne Depot this past Wednesday afternoon. On display in front of us are the smaller original painting and one of the larger prints. I also exhibited "Mountain Lake Monarch" and my portrait "Kathryn" , along with a small sampling of my other prints. The event was well attended; I managed to sell the original and a bunch of prints. My thanks to Ann Houston for hosting this viewing, and my thanks to the editors & staff of The Times-Journal and The DeKalb Advertiser for their coverage of this event! Now it is time to get started in earnest on the companion art for the second print in the depot series! |
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| To view this art in my Wheels & Rails Art Gallery click HERE. |
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| The Fort Payne Times-Journal ran this headline on the front page of today's paper! |
| Needless to say I am delighted to see this promotion of the unveiling event that is being hosted by Ann Houston, curator of the Fort Payne Depot Museum. My thanks to the editors & staff of The Times-Journal for this coverage of my work! |
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