Aviation Art – Which are your favourites?

Denis and Propstrike – interesting point of view. Denis – perfect interpretation. At the end of my oil paintings Spitfire and Hunter. More about … http://www.sztukaitechnika.pl/blog/12,nowy-obraz-spitfire-nad-belgia.html , http://www.sztukaitechnika.pl/blog/19,hunter-nad-jomfruland.html

This Barrie Clark paining is iconic IMO.

I fell in love with this one when i saw it first. A lovely quiet scene 🙂 Cant remember the artist off hand. [ATTACH=CONFIG]226266[/ATTACH]

A few I have.

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The P11C picture is brilliant, the girl caught unawares by a low flying pilot who obviously saw her first 🙂

Some really lovely images here. I’ve got a selection of prints and a few originals. As some have pointed-out, accuracy of shape can ruin an otherwise nice painting. (Although these image of Piotr’s show a lensing-effect put to very effective use…! Love them..!).
The other toughie is the lighting. Anyone who’s spent any time aloft knows that you can get some amazing and weird effects, yet in some paintings, whilst the shapes, the detail, the dynamism are there….the lighting can let them down.
Although my own favourite it Michael Turner, I’ve also got some much loved images from little-known artists. In all honesty, I’m stupefied by the sheer talent of these folks.

The effect of applied tele consciously. Aims to show dynamism. Here are other examples: a frog perspective (P-11c) and re-tele (Su-22M4).

Holy Thread Resurrection, Batman ! Where did the last ten years go ?

Nice work Arteast. I think the Thunderbolt works well. Almost inevitably, aviation artists work partly from photos, with varying degrees of success, and I feel the P.40 crop looks a bit ‘telephoto’ to be quite comfortable as a painting.

Thanks for posting.

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Since we were talking Raymond Baxter and his 602 Squadron Spit XVI TB382 in another thread, I thought I’d add this one that I really like. Baxter and his Spit on the right avoiding the church steeple.

Dan

The Best Av Art

OK , I know Mr Taylor is an pro and Trudgalong sells prolifically but this Artist is THE BEST and is relatively unknown .I know , its an irony !!

see for yourself

Best Ron

http://www.btinternet.com/~charlesthompson/index.html.html

And another bunch of lovelies… 🙂

Frank Wooton

The skyscapes, seascapes and landscapes were all excellent but were generally ruined with the aeroplane which in most cases were wong in some way. It started with the twisted Spitfire wings,

Agree that accuracy is everything in aviation art and those Spitfire Wings are notoriously difficult to capture correctly – a lot of this comes from as you saying using the wrong photo – ie one taken close by and placing it on a canvas where it is not so close – ie smaller ,this causes all kinds of perspective problems .

I think the best thing is paintings taking us where we could never go like the middle of a B-17 formation under attack by Fw190s over Germany

Absolutely. I agree totally.

Thanks for all the replies, some great artistic names coming up. Frank Wooton was wonderful, and Gerald Coulson and Ivan Berryman too. Wasn’t it Berryman who painted the excellent 1990 Battle of Britain calendar that folded out from the centre of a Flypast issue? That was the first issue i bought and it had me totally hooked on the UK warbirds scene. 🙂

Here are a few more… I hope you like ’em

Gava Exhibition Mall Galleries

Ooops I didn’t see Janies initial comment on the Guild Exhibition . Hope you make it Janie , must be nice to get the chance

will enclose a painting I did of Janie (The P51 ) Ha

Best Ron

member of the Manchester Aviation Art Society

Keiths B24

I Must say I agree that Keith Woodcocks B24 is a fantastic piece of art – It has dynamism , drama and more , it won an award at the American Society of Aviation Artists show a few years ago ,no surprise really , lots more original artwork on the Gava web – http://www.gava.org.uk website – their annual exhibition opens tommorow , some super pieces of original art and many affordable .

I dont have the wallspace or money to buy a lot of aviation art but I did buy Robert Taylors “Return of the Belle ” many moons ago . Sometimes when you see a fantastic piece you just have to have it !

Best Ron

No. They’ve moved it to the Mall Galleries in The Mall (on the North side, at the Trafalgar Sq end).

Ive dug out the website for the galleries for those interested,in fact i will start a new thread as well to bring the info to the front http://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/calendar.html
I will try to pop up there somepoint,cheers 😀

WOW ,thanks for the heads up,i normally go,is it still at the Carisbrook art gallery?,cheers for that. 😀

No. They’ve moved it to the Mall Galleries in The Mall (on the North side, at the Trafalgar Sq end).

I know Frank Wootton was a very highly respected artist before his death, but his Spitfire wings always looked a little ‘twisted’ to me…
Mark

I had a book on Frank Wooton to review when i was doing the reviews for Aeroplane. The skyscapes, seascapes and landscapes were all excellent but were generally ruined with the aeroplane which in most cases were wong in some way. It started with the twisted Spitfire wings, the truncated Mark VIII in Burma and then I noticed anhedral on the Liberator, inward canted engines on a Mosquito and loads more. In the end I couldn’t look at the book without groaning. I wrote a review that was fair but pointed this out and Richard Riding pulled is, not that I was wrong but because Wooton was notorious for not accepting any criticism (perhaps thereby lies the reason!).

Sadly he is not alone, many people painting aeroplane now use models and photographs but forget that looking at a 1/72nd model up close or a photo taken with anything other than a 50mm lens will have some distortion. The classic of these is a painting of a swept wing Auster AOP9 landing in Malaya. This is what happens when you take the picture with a 28mm lens.

I see a lot of aviation art and some is excellent but a lot has failings with perspective. I can think of several artists whose work would be much improved with a simple lesson or three in basic tech. drawing (and no, I will not be saying who).

As for fave, my fave is Michael Turner, not only because he is very good but also because he is a dead good bloke, thinks my cat Sid is wonderful AND he flies a Chipmunk. He also has a good sense of humour. At one of the Flypast Fly-ins at North Weald, young Mr Ellis and I were commentating. Michael came up and asked if we would put a call out for his passenger as he wanted to leave so Ken said “Would Michael Turner’s passenger please make his way to gate no 5 where his flight is ready for departure” Michael was walking away and gave us a wave so I said “I have heard he can paint a bit” and Ken replied “Yeah, he made a lovely job of my shed!”

His race cars are pretty special too.

MH

I bought a print at Duxford by someone called Wayne Brereton of three 19 Sqdn Spitfires breaking formation – beautiful (and should have been on the walls sooner had the baggage “throwers” been a bit more careful! 😡 )

Also got a Coulson print of Spitfire Mk1a N3029 over the clouds that the other half gave me for Valentine’s Day. I’ll try and get some photos of them in position soon.