Aviation Art - post your favourite pics

[Smithy]

Trudgian is probably my favorite out of the mix too.

I wanted to get his "Spitfire Summer" when it came out in 2001/2002 but it sold out incredibly quickly also due to the fact Grub Street used it as the cover for Stapme's biography by David Ross.

Still want to buy a print of it. Also I've got my eye on this of 56 Sqn by Simon Smith...

 

[Rutger]

Aviation art by Peter van Stigt, just two samples.

 

[Micawber]

I generally don't hang prints on my walls but made an exception for Trudgian's Hurricane Heroes because it reminds me of what the lads and lasses were fighting for...

 

[jack31916]

An original in oils showing a 101 Squadron Lancaster (SR - B with ARC aerials) low over the Netherlands which was commissioned by an ex 101 Sqdn engine fitter.

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Nice painting. Is this a bombing mission or maybe one of the food droppings ( very low level...) ?

 

[jack31916]

Dutch 320 RAF Squadron by Dutch artist Wiek Luijken

 

[dav3469]

Three of my favorites, “Blackjack’s New Scouts”, “The Few”, and “Red, White, and Blue”. I need to get “The Few” framed. All by James Dietz.

 

[leper-colony]

James Dietz, He said he was inspired by star Wars for this one.
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This is the art on the lead plane:

 

[Micawber]

Nice painting. Is this a bombing mission or maybe one of the food droppings ( very low level...) ?

No further info I'm afraid. 101 Squadron were to become a special ECM (electronic counter measures) unit so got up to all sorts of things.

 

[Kermit3D]

I really like Shigeo Koike's paintings, which are often seen on "Hasegawa" model boxes.

 

[B-Man2]

This has been one of my favorites since I saw it at the 8th Air Force Museum in Pooler Georgia . While the painting is awesome, the story it depicts is an event that actually occurred during WWII that is both exceptional and heart warming . I’ve included photos of the placards for the painting so you can read about it .

 

[Kermit3D]

My humble contribution : two images I made about ten years ago.
The first one is made with a 3D software
The second one (which I never finished...) is painted with a graphic tablet.

 

[JimO]

AVG Flying Tiger R.T. Smith's P-40C, original oil painting by Larry Lapadura 1991.

 

[s4rmark]

Two more.

 

[Brettafett]

The pieces that form a 'snapshot in time' of a particular story or event, are amazing. Really brings things to life...

 

[ausreenactor]

Two Down, One to Go by William S. Phillips
Love the angles of the is one...
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That's NOT a photo? Wow!

 

[Phrog Driver]

Artwork commissioned by one of our search and rescue corpsmen with copies presented as gifts to his fellow SAR team members. I'm sorry do not know the artist.

 

[SuinBruin]

Romain Hugault's stuff is great, I just got a copy of this amazing poster.

 

[MikeyB-17]

Always liked this one.
On the subject of Nick Trudgian, I know I’ve mentioned this before but I studied Technical Illustration way back in the mists of time at Camborne Technical College, down here in Cornwall, and Nick was, for a term, one of my lecturers. Lovely bloke, and a big fan of trains. After buying a copy of ‘The Mighty Eighth in art’ and seeing his work represented there, my initial thought was ‘it can’t be the same bloke, Nick was always into trains’. Turns out I was wrong, and he had become one of the most popular aviation artists in the World. I saw him at Duxford once, years later, but didn’t approach him, a) because I doubt he’d have remembered me, and b) if you weren’t buying something, you weren’t encouraged to talk to the artists. He was good fun at Camborne though, and my mate, who also became a lecturer, got to know him quite well.

 

[Flightengineer]

 

[lgr1613]

Pardo's Push - Doing the improbable to save a wingman. The original was displayed in the Prologue Room at McDonnell Douglas Headquarters in St. Louis.