Bob's Art Gallery

March 13, 2011

Venezia

My wife and I are in love with Venice. Here's a copy of J.M.W. Turner's "Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore." Mine doesn't do justice to the original, but it's good enough to hang over our fireplace.

Another view of San Giorgio, oil on paper. This church, which sits on 2 million pilings, was one of the great

neo classical buildings by the late Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.

One of my favorite Palazzos; Salviati, is on a side canal. The white frame is actually a medicine cabinet.

This view of San Giorgio Maggiore and it's island is done in pointillist. The "crackelature" wasn't intentional, it was the result of spending a hot day in a car trunk.

February 26, 2011

Fighter Aviation

F-16 loaded "wall to wall." This was painted for my good friend, Lt. Gen. Dan Leaf, who was Wing Commander at Aviano, Italy during Operation Allied Force in 1999.

A pencil drawing of me flying the A-7D, 1975. You can see the other planes in my formation in my visor.

F-15s over Bitburg, Germany, 1977. The shelters we're flying over are concrete revetments to protect our planes from the enemy. The Cold War was still pretty hot.

F-15 attacking a Mig in the early morning over Germany. This picture shows the vertical ability of the Eagle and displays the four Sparrow missiles and the four Sidewinders.

A rare five ship formation over Monument Valley, Utah. This was a photo op for the 405th Wing. I'm flying the second plane from the top, our squadron flagship.

This painting was a gift to our Squadron Flight Surgeon, Doc Rodney Cloonan.

February 2, 2011

Original Landscapes

Blue Eyes

It's difficult to do "head on" pictures of kids, especially with frontal lighting.

I "underpainted" the canvas with pale blue to make her skin translucent. The hair is impressionistic, using colors in her face and the background.

Oil on canvas, 11 x 14

A mosaic of the painting. The small tiles are actually other paintings I've made.

The girl's mother when she was about the same age. You see where she got the blue eyes.

February 1, 2011

"Girl With Pearl Earring"

Intending to use my niece as a model for "Girl with Pearl Earring," I took the photo below when she was 12. I finally made the painting when she was 18. She is quite a talented young artist herself.