This painting depicts the Medal of Honor mission of Major James Howard. During the mission over WWII Germany in December of 1943, Major Howard single handedly took on over 30 German fighter planes to protect a bomber group when he was accidently seperated from his fighter squadron. When asked how he overcame the odds of being shot down during this mission, he stated, "I seen my duty and I done it!" FYI - Ding Hao means "Good Luck" in Chinese.
7 comments:
amazing, beautifully rendered
Nice soft colors....very tight paint...
KUDOS..
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i just love plane fights......nice work...love how the sky looks!
Thanks! I love to document aviation history.
Professionally, I am trying to break free of the aviation scene and use the same style for other subjects and try my hand at some metaphorical compositions.
Aviation art was really big in the 90s. But the art reps I have talked to say that I need to branch out and diversify my subjects.
Thanks again for your compliments.
See you on the SFG forum.
Wow...this is very nice. And it reminds me of the box art from models I never could build correctly as a youth. The box art always rocked, and so does this.
Very cool.
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Steph,
Do you know an aviation artist by the name of 'Brian Bateman'?
He does this type of work so I thought you may have crossed paths?
Von
Von,
I'm not familiar with Brian's work. There are so many aviation artists out there.
I'm mainly familiar with the artists that belong to the ASAA (American Society of Aviaiton Artists) or the Air Force Art Program.
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