Congrats to the team at Vintage Wings for completing the Beach City Baby restoration and taking the first flight! 😍 I'm proud to have helped play a small role in that restoration, and can't wait to fly in her someday soon.
Category: Nose Art
Rosie’s Reply Anniversary
It's hard to believe it's been 1 year since I painted the Rosie's Reply artwork that I designed onto the nose of the Yankee Air Museum's B-25 in a historic Willow Run hangar! It was an amazing experience of many 12 hour days and I loved every exhausting minute of it. I can't wait for … Continue reading Rosie’s Reply Anniversary
The Liberty Foundation C-47 Nose Art
This fall I helped out The Liberty Foundation with artwork for the nose art for the repaint of their C-47 to "Chalk 40", which looks great in her new OD and invasion stripes!
Love from the D-Day Squadron
This was a really nice post and much appreciated. I really am blessed to have a profession that I love and am so passionate about. And great clients are the icing on the cake!
“Lucky Lady” Cowling
The latest private commission P-47 style nose art cowling "Lucky Lady" is enroute to her new home today. I'm really happy with how she turned out, as is the client! I can't wait to hear about the reaction from the real Lucky Lady. I still have a couple of these that are still unspoken for. … Continue reading “Lucky Lady” Cowling
John Wayne Museum Interview!
It's not everyday that the JOHN WAYNE Museum interviews you about your passion and profession and then publishes it in their journal... John Wayne! WOW!! Click here to read the interview:
“Last Call” cowling “P-47”
And here is the other recent "P-47" cowling project all finished up. This one is a companion piece to my "Ready for Take-Off" project and looks like it was from the same squadron with the same nose artist... me! I was given free reign on this one also in regards to subject and period correct … Continue reading “Last Call” cowling “P-47”
“P-47” Cowling Project “Forget Me Not”
Here is the first of two recent private commission "P-47" cowling projects completed! For this one I was given a blank canvas... authentic period correct looking but artistic free reign to do whatever I wanted to do... so I chose a 1945 photo of Yvonne De Carlo (aka Lily Munster) as inspiration because I've always … Continue reading “P-47” Cowling Project “Forget Me Not”
Beach City Baby!
Here is my completed artwork on the Vintage Wings C-53 Beach City Baby! I designed this fictional nose art 2 years ago, and it's a thrill to see it completed on the aircraft now. CLICK HERE to read all about it on Warbird Digest!
My Dinner Date
I had a lovely dinner date this evening over the Chicken Primavera from Primo Barone's right here on the airport... the Beach City Baby C-53. I'll probably work until about 10:00 tonight before I wrap up Day Two in the Vintage Wings Hangar.