Working Title - Hunters and Farmers

A traditional grisell "dead layer" underpainting. About 12 hours work over two sessions alla prima. This is the first step in producing the colour study for the full size work.

Oil on board and small at 12" x 9"

Update on the Dogs of War

Good progress has been made in recent weeks and this piece is now approaching completion. Have said that there is still a sizeable list of details to be added and tweaks to be made.

 36" x 18" oil on canvas
 Available for purchase
Please contact the artist - petewenman@navairart.com

Playing with paint

Just to sharpen the brushes a little I knocked up these two small paintings over the last week. A F-14A Tomcat of VF-211 for a friend

and for a change of pace a Boeing F4B-4 from the pre-war era.

Each painting took about 5 hours and the aircraft each measure about 6 inches. Both were painted Alla Prima ( at first attempt) and Brunaille (executed entirely in shades of brown) - in this case using burnt umber and white over a burnt sienna wash.

New website and domain name.

I'm pleased to announce the launch of my new website at it's new domain of navairart.com Please bookmark the address and drop in and have a look around. Feel free to drop me a comment on the site or subjects you might like to see.

Pukin Dog Progress

Both aircraft now pretty much blocked in and detail starting to be added.

36" X 18" Oil on canvas

Pukin Dogs

A long time without any posts, but there has been plenty going on.
The latest piece is a composition showing two F-18E's of VFA-143

The current state of play

Current WIP

This is a couple of Ordnance deck crew from VFA-151, based on a US Navy Photo.
As always painting figures is a great way to improve your painting skills.

 The basic image underpainted in raw umber on a burnt sienna base (tinted gesso)
Oil on board 12" x 9"

A detail shot showing the first couple of hours work

Pensacola Texan - T-6B Texan II

This is a quick colour study, worked from a photo I took last year at Pensacola. 6 hours work spread over about a 6 week period.

Five photos showing progress

Orion's Game complete

The painting is now complete, although this photo does not show the last few details that have now been added.

Oil on canvas, 36" x 18".
Commissioned by the VP-45 Association

Orion's Game

My current project is of a P-3C Orion catching a Soviet Juilet class submarine on the surface.
Oil on canvas 36" x 18"
Here's a sequence of images showing the process to date.

A larger view of the current state of play

The gull grey is all blocked in, gloss white up next.

The light gull grey is corrected, but still only blocked in at this stage.

 Paint starts to go down, as the main colours are blocked in over a burnt sienna acrylic wash that sealed in the line drawing.

The original thumbnail sketch that was tweaked for the final image.