Aviation Art and Artists
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Ahhh Ummm! This is just the point I was making. Someone asks for websites for aviation art and........well, off we go wiv me deleting tool.
So to save you the embarrassment, and my time, by all means offer the website name but ONLY via e-mail. Please do NOT put them on here.
CP
So to save you the embarrassment, and my time, by all means offer the website name but ONLY via e-mail. Please do NOT put them on here.
CP
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Can I suggest this URL:
as a good starting point for those looking for aviation art web sites?
The above site isn't commercial so hopefully this doesn't breach the rules of the group.
Apologies to Camel if it does - I'm not trying to be difficult!
It is a good link but you will have to ask hjc for it.
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as a good starting point for those looking for aviation art web sites?
The above site isn't commercial so hopefully this doesn't breach the rules of the group.
Apologies to Camel if it does - I'm not trying to be difficult!
It is a good link but you will have to ask hjc for it.
PPP
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When I went through flying training, there was a delightful old gent called Pat Rooney who used to travel around the many stations doing personal cartoons of individuals and aeroplanes. His catch phrase was "Happy Days" Anyone remember him?
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Indeed I do blaireau, I have his caricature of me hanging on the wall next to my PC.
One the subject of aviation paintings, after the coronation review of the RAF in 1953 an official painting of the event was commissioned to a lady artist.
It showed the royal dais, some of the ground display, and NF Meteors flying past.
This painting was hung,and for all I know, still hangs in many RAF messes.
Does anyone know where I might obtain a print of this painting ?
To avoid Camel having to use his blue pencil please email me if you have any suggestions.
One the subject of aviation paintings, after the coronation review of the RAF in 1953 an official painting of the event was commissioned to a lady artist.
It showed the royal dais, some of the ground display, and NF Meteors flying past.
This painting was hung,and for all I know, still hangs in many RAF messes.
Does anyone know where I might obtain a print of this painting ?
To avoid Camel having to use his blue pencil please email me if you have any suggestions.
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If you can't aford the originals, have you tried the book: Classic Aircraft in Aviation Art, by Roger Markman - studies of six aircraft y the world's finest aviation artists (ISBN: 0 7153 0046 6) . The pencil drawing of the BF 109 by SImon Bradshaw has to be seen to be believed - outstanding!
If you can get hold of them, Frank Wootton's books on How to Draw Planes, Drawing Airraft, etc, circa 1940's/50's, are also a delight.
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If you can get hold of them, Frank Wootton's books on How to Draw Planes, Drawing Airraft, etc, circa 1940's/50's, are also a delight.
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I would tend to agree with the thread starter that Robert Taylor is one of, if not the best aviation artists around. I have a print of his painting "Home Run", which is awesome. Some names were mentioned and they are all good. Nadine mentioned Dietz, that is James Dietz who does a very original style that places people interacting with historic aircraft in the prints. Heck of a nice guy too, I once wrote him a letter asking about his work and he replied with a very kind letter in return. Mike Machat does some good work of the X series aircraft in the States as well as other historic pieces. I've had him do some remarques on prints which were an affordable way of getting some original work onto a print. Keith Ferris is one of the top U.S. aviation artists and has been around for a long time.
There are a number of galleries in the States that specialize in Aviation Art. Most of the artists have their own personal websites that an easy yahoo search can lead you to.
Now I just have to build a house with enough wall space to hang all the good stuff on. Then talk my wife into letting me do that.
Typhoonpilot
There are a number of galleries in the States that specialize in Aviation Art. Most of the artists have their own personal websites that an easy yahoo search can lead you to.
Now I just have to build a house with enough wall space to hang all the good stuff on. Then talk my wife into letting me do that.
Typhoonpilot
At Rougham air display I came across a painting of an FAA Avenger that was depicted shooting down a V-1,over the Channel.It also stated that the gunner only used 20 rounds to destroy it.
Anyone got any further gen. on the incident, the artist and gallery, as I didn`t have my wallet handy at the time .
Syc
Anyone got any further gen. on the incident, the artist and gallery, as I didn`t have my wallet handy at the time .
Syc
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hjc.
It is about as commercial as you can get! Almost all the links lead to brilliant pics at a price. If they want to advertise on PPRuNe they can - at a price.
I have deleted the link. But if anyone is interested E-MAIL hjc direct.
It is about as commercial as you can get! Almost all the links lead to brilliant pics at a price. If they want to advertise on PPRuNe they can - at a price.
I have deleted the link. But if anyone is interested E-MAIL hjc direct.
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May I suggest the upcoming Duxford show as a venue to view most of the major current artists' works. RIAT is also full of them. But the best place of all is the RAF Club in Hyde Park Lane, but I'm sure one cannot just walk in without an invitation.
But surely one of the lovliest paintings, and one which every spouse would approve of, is Roderick Lovesey's 'A Tribute to Women in Aviation'! I first saw it at Monique Agazarian's home in London at a time she was trying to sell her flight sim business at White Waltham. She acquired two copies, signed them, and flew them over to Fairoaks to deliver them personally to a friend who was with me at the time. I remember Monique's was signed by all the depicted pilots (11 in number) apart from Amy Johnson. Monique is unique in being depicted twice, once with her Rapide, and once with a Spitfire. Mine is no. 14/300 and I daresay there are still copies to be had, via the BWPA. I have mislaid the descriptive piece that accompanied the painting or I would be able to tell you who they all are, but there is a lady in front of a Stirling, a Lancaster, a wartime B-17, a Jet Provost, a BA 757, a Danair 737, Monique with her Rapide, and Monique and two others on top of the Spitfire. Oh, and a lady obviously in command sitting at her desk. The print is copyright 1991 so I am sure you'll still be lucky.
When you view each group, the pilot is esconced in her own surroundings, be it clouds, or airfield, or Cranwell, but the whole is so brilliantly blended together, that no one group sticks out, except perhaps for Amy who is watching over them all.
Anyone else got one?
What about the Guild of Aviation Artists as a source for brilliant paintings? John Blake, that wonderful voice of Farnborough prior to his progedy (whomever) had to learn to paint with his left hand after a mishap with a grenade left him rather short-limbed ('...pulled out the pin and threw the pin...). I have a couple of drawings of his, one especially jovial, the day after the AN-22 sort of landed across the runway at Farnborough when it was delivering a fresh powerplant for the AN-124 that year. John's capture of that massive plane trying to land across the runway, with sods of grass flying and the pilot (or was it the navigator) exclaiming 'Borzhe Moi' is amazing, and the title 'Not so Flot Aero' was all done in 5 minutes. A treasure!
I also have a nice Hurricane, and a Spitfire by Brian Knight, and a 'Concorde at Farnborough' by Terry Harrison, who I believe is a Fleet chap. His 'The Delivery' shows - not an aircraft - but a bowler delivering the ball at a cricket match, and he has added in pencil - Hartley Wintney before the Great Storm of October 1987 - when the lovely trees all fell, some wrecking the pavilion. As a kid we used to watch celebrity elevens play there (I have their autographs), little knowing that I would be playing myself for my home town a few years later.
But I digress - remember Wren?
Nice thread - thanks!
But surely one of the lovliest paintings, and one which every spouse would approve of, is Roderick Lovesey's 'A Tribute to Women in Aviation'! I first saw it at Monique Agazarian's home in London at a time she was trying to sell her flight sim business at White Waltham. She acquired two copies, signed them, and flew them over to Fairoaks to deliver them personally to a friend who was with me at the time. I remember Monique's was signed by all the depicted pilots (11 in number) apart from Amy Johnson. Monique is unique in being depicted twice, once with her Rapide, and once with a Spitfire. Mine is no. 14/300 and I daresay there are still copies to be had, via the BWPA. I have mislaid the descriptive piece that accompanied the painting or I would be able to tell you who they all are, but there is a lady in front of a Stirling, a Lancaster, a wartime B-17, a Jet Provost, a BA 757, a Danair 737, Monique with her Rapide, and Monique and two others on top of the Spitfire. Oh, and a lady obviously in command sitting at her desk. The print is copyright 1991 so I am sure you'll still be lucky.
When you view each group, the pilot is esconced in her own surroundings, be it clouds, or airfield, or Cranwell, but the whole is so brilliantly blended together, that no one group sticks out, except perhaps for Amy who is watching over them all.
Anyone else got one?
What about the Guild of Aviation Artists as a source for brilliant paintings? John Blake, that wonderful voice of Farnborough prior to his progedy (whomever) had to learn to paint with his left hand after a mishap with a grenade left him rather short-limbed ('...pulled out the pin and threw the pin...). I have a couple of drawings of his, one especially jovial, the day after the AN-22 sort of landed across the runway at Farnborough when it was delivering a fresh powerplant for the AN-124 that year. John's capture of that massive plane trying to land across the runway, with sods of grass flying and the pilot (or was it the navigator) exclaiming 'Borzhe Moi' is amazing, and the title 'Not so Flot Aero' was all done in 5 minutes. A treasure!
I also have a nice Hurricane, and a Spitfire by Brian Knight, and a 'Concorde at Farnborough' by Terry Harrison, who I believe is a Fleet chap. His 'The Delivery' shows - not an aircraft - but a bowler delivering the ball at a cricket match, and he has added in pencil - Hartley Wintney before the Great Storm of October 1987 - when the lovely trees all fell, some wrecking the pavilion. As a kid we used to watch celebrity elevens play there (I have their autographs), little knowing that I would be playing myself for my home town a few years later.
But I digress - remember Wren?
Nice thread - thanks!
Ah!! Aeroplanes on paper or canvas.....James Dietz is excellent, as is Jean-Luc Beghin (cockpits....his Cub is perfect); Michael Turner, for his book "Combat Aces" which must have been printed on Unobtainium, 'cos it's impossible to find;Lynn Williams,for his work in his brother's magnum opus on aerobatics; Arthur Whitlock,for his ageless line-drawings in his wonderful autobiography.So many others, so little time...
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2DD
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2DD
