Aviation Art – Which are your favourites?

That Lancaster image is superb – who is the artist?
Ed

Hi Ed, Sorry I do not know, cannot make out the name, that image plus this one of the same aircraft under initial attack by the Ju 88 nightfighter. These images were found on the net, I would also like to know who produced them, anybody know?

Regards

Melvin

www.aircrewremembrancesociety.co.uk

Simon Atack has some videos as well on his Dambusters painting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM8HjpZSzvE part 1

Have a look on here ,there may be some more http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?75003-Forum-Virtual-Art-Gallery&highlight=virtual

For those interested in how a painting is created Mark Postlethwaites site http://www.posart.com/dambusters-approaching-the-eder-wip/
http://www.posart.com/combat-over-croydon-wip/, or the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9wW5abfIw8 i find the W I P process fascinating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deS30Ae2HJM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smicHBbNxdA

Hi All,
I think Simon Atack’s ‘Hopgood’s Courageous Run’ has to be his finest work to date, I have a full width Remarque just exquisite. I also like our very own Ronnie Olsthorn’s TSR2 ‘Hell For Leather’ along with Michael Rondot’ TSR2 ‘The Fourth Dimension’.

Geoff.

As good as the brushwork is in all the pictures of the D-day C-47s I would instantly dismiss them as poorly researched and inaccurate.
Where are the Parapack racks on the aircraft’s belly for the Parachutists equipment?
I appriciate some may think they spoil the lines the aircraft and I can live with some level of artistic licence but personally I don’t like inaccurate art.

Have a few more here to share !

Amiens raid attack ….. BlueNosers at work … D-Day Paratrooper drop !

Great looking Gareth Herctor Normandy print

UK based artist Gareth Hector is a fine talent..love his Normandy TYphoon attack on a German truck & tank group….great show of speed of the attacking Tyhphoon’s in the print !

That Lancaster image is superb – who is the artist?
Ed

“The last Defender”
Another really great print, not sure if computer generated, but certainly has the feel of the moment to it!

Melvin

www.aircrewremembrancesociety.co.uk

I must add to this thread, Micheal Turner is my favorite. I used his work during one of my A level art projects back in 1991. How he painted so much movement into a painting is quite beyond me. His automotive art is also spot on.

http://www.studio88.co.uk/acatalog/Aviation.html

A magic, spine-tingling moment.
Many years ago, gone out for a country walk, heard that magical Merlin sound, looked up, two single engine fighters fairly low, one a Spit, the other?….as they came over, the Spit banked as though the pilot was looking down, the sun caught the fuselage from nose to tail, obliterating all detail and I instantly thought Frank Wooton!…..I understand what others have said concerning his technical accuracy, but that image could have come STRAIGHT from one of his paintings. more of a ‘FEELING’ than a technically accurate depiction.
I also love Michael Turners prototype Spit.

Another fine Gil Cohen …shades of the 918th Twelve O’Clock High !

A few more !

Love that newly acquired Keith Ferris…P-51 shoot down of M-262 !

Been looking for this 357th FG Mustang take down of a M-262 ! By Keith Ferris !

A few more from the BlueNoser collection…

A few more from my collection.. I was actually on the USAF C-17 working by in the late 90’s ..Keith Ferris ..great artist !

Some of BlueNoser352 prints !

Love any print by Gil Cohen, Harley Copics P-51’s are always great , Robet Taylor …. Gareth Hector… so many I’ve run out of wall space. Love WW II aviation prints and nose art on A-2 jackets ! 352nd Mustangs …..my favorite !

I agree there are many very talented aviation artists out there and, of course, all art is subjective.
Over the last 30 or 40 years I have particularly enjoyed the work of Roy Cross, Robert Taylor, Ivan Berryman and Michael Taylor but in the last few years I think Mark Postlethwaite has ascended to the top of the group.
Like many others I’m sure, I now have more prints than wall space!
Ed

This is one of my favourites – “Hurricanes from Kenley” by Micheal Turner. My copy is signed by the artist and all three pilots whose aircraft are depicted – Group Capt. Tom P. Gleave, C.B.E. Group Capt. George A. Brown, D.F.C., D.L. and Flight Lt. Sidney F. Cooper, A.F.C. I love the peaceful summer sky and light clouds and the almost pastoral setting compared to the drab warlike camouflage and aggressive profiles of the Hurricanes. A really fantastic and atmospheric painting. This for me really depicts the way the war was experienced in those days – the peace of the English landscape being briefly shattered by engines, gunfire and explosions.

I have to agree. As a child of the sixties the airfix box art was superb… I had to spend my pocket money and build the kit! A pity they “sanitised” the artwork in the 1990’s to make it more PC……

I know that I recently posted this on another thread, but Roy Cross and Airfix (not forgetting Ken McDonaugh, who is often over shadowed by Cross) really shaped my love of aviation and aviation art. Those box art paintings completely fired my imagination and brought the kits inside to life. Another great box artist was Matchbox’s Roy Huxley…his work was equally superb.

Regards;
Steve

This is one of my favourites… and is hung on the wall above my computer desk:

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I have no business connection with the artist (other than he is a member of the LEMB) so I’d recommend checking out his website here for other aviation related artwork…