Aviation Art in Action

[Ian Warren]

Thanks Mike .. Chicken cooking at the mo .. well just the drumsticks .... be the same tomorrow ..... .... hell's its a Chicken ..

[Splitpin]

Have you thought about a book ?
Merry Christmas skinman

[Splitpin]

Just looking at your "tree" ..... i dont recall seeing the sunderland before ... the one of an aircraft in a hanger.
You have been busy ... got some days off now , so i will pop over ..... with pizza

[Ian Warren]

Have you thought about a book ?
Merry Christmas skinman

Thanks Marty

[Ian Warren]

Just looking at your "tree" ..... i dont recall seeing the sunderland before ... the one of an aircraft in a hanger.
You have been busy ... got some days off now , so i will pop over ..... with pizza

I'll supply the coolant and I'll keep my Christmas tree up for you ... least I don't have pine needle problems

[Splitpin]

I got myself a book for Christmas , which i think you will enjoy reading .... "the aviation art of Adam Tooby"
He works the same way as you , and is the current "Airfix" box artist ..... amazing stuff he is doing , much like yourself.
Will catch up soon and bring the book.

[emfrat]

Doesn't he have a brother, Hugh, specialising in videos?

[Ian Warren]

I got myself a book for Christmas , which i think you will enjoy reading .... "the aviation art of Adam Tooby"
He works the same way as you , and is the current "Airfix" box artist ..... amazing stuff he is doing , much like yourself.
Will catch up soon and bring the book.

Airfix kitset box art was always phenomenal , would be very interest to look at that, the early 1970s were the most impressive.

[Splitpin]

:) Doesn't he have a brother, Hugh, specialising in videos?

Gawd

[Ian Warren]

A lot of Abstract art is to simplistic or one can do when one was in primary school, others I give it a miss, Artist Bob Friedenberg gave me a nudge and I replied , now this is Abstract Art that has to me a real appeal, so simple but so detailed, I told Bob better leave me to draw the aeroplanes the work involved here is so interesting.
http://www.not-wolf-productions.com/

[Ian Warren]

DRAG into this thread for some reason .... took half my night unfortunate the girls had to leave ... could not wait for the thread to load ... Oh well .. into the drawing .. and a little PC stuff , 'STAR WARS' is what Bailey is after ... nighttime now we won't see them.

[Ian Warren]

BLACK CATS , This all started because one morning mowing the lawn, neighbour's Helen and Bruce stopped for a chat, they mentioned their son Jason had just open a small 'cafe' in Dunedin called the 'Black Cat Cafe' ... I start waffling away about a group in WWII Catalinas in the Pacific you know me, anyway Helen told Jason about this, one thing lead to another ... so it has been full speed ahead.

This is in the late hours of the night, but it dose show this detail like is if the light is directly on - as the light in the room changes so dose the painting.

A made up history here, I could not find any detail off the cargo ship but reading about the exploits and tricks these guys did in 1943 , I decided - Target - one ammunition cargo ship old 1920 design and simply blow it up moored in shallow water somewhere in the Pacific. the ship hit by four 500lb bombs 'Direct Hit' first the initial explosion and next thing 'WHOOLIP' - a second massive explosion - ammunition ship alright , simply broke its back snapped in two and disintegrated , gone in 30 seconds !

[Ian Warren]

One off the most striking things that happened this weekend and the last couple of days is I sold two paintings , Jason , I did a business card a few years back, very good musician, Guitar .. now opened a Cafe in Dunedin https://www.facebook.com/blackcathackney/ , Now CoochB get in there for Breakfast

[Ian Warren]

Well! I had a couple ask me, Could I do a STAR WARS painting after checking out my art portfolio ... been done to Death ... how the hell do I approach this, I had already started a background Oct/Nov 2014 , still requires a little/lotta work .. how many 'Millennium Falcons' and 'Xwings' can you, one not have

[Ian Warren]

Now on to something truly Historical , tho thinking about it 1977 I think this STAR WARS may fit the bill

[Ian Warren]

One thing I need to get my hands on again is an air brush, I had one years back but was another item that was not returned .... I got pretty handy with it and would have been ideal for this sort of work, strangely it was only mentioned couple days back.

One thing I thought, was it worth buying a new gun and experimenting or stick to scanning and use the PC ... which is much cleaner ... BUT and many off those !

[Ian Warren]

Here is a nice thing, 'BLACK CATS' , was for Jas's Cafe in Dunedin , I thought it would be nice with a 'STAR WARS' theme directly beside it ... Cafe .. think I'm cooking ..... Still its to the Art Center ... you never know ...

[emfrat]

At HARS on the weekend, I was poking around their shop and noticed two paintings up on the wall - a nice Lanc, and I think t'other was a Cat. About A2 size, in frames, priced AUD500 and AUD600. Don't know if that was framed, or just the flat pic and organise yer own frame.

[Ian Warren]

HARS .. Jeez I would love to be there in Woolongong, I contacted the the group there about and regard to my Art work with no reply, least my pricing is nearly quarter the cost.

[emfrat]

HARS .. Jeez I would love to be there in Woolongong, I contacted the the group there about and regard to my Art work with no reply, least my pricing is nearly quarter the cost.

Even though they are a volunteer organisation, it has to be said, their comms are not the best. I was not willing to spend $500 to visit HARS, only to find the Drover was away, to Parkes or wherever. Their website is not well maintained. Can say more on TS, but not today or tomorrow. Took a serious email growl before I got any response at all about the Drover - for me, their record is about 5% responses to essentially simple requests.