36 Fighter Wing Reunion June 2011

Using a Google Earth image of present day Bitburg, Germany, I was able to make a realistic view of an Eagle making a vertical climb. The Kyll river valley is upper right. This clear day would have been rare in West Central Germany.
The banner for our reunion in Phoenix, June 2-5. Art work is from my painting below.

Because I couldn't find good art work of the patches, I painted originals using the original Disney designs.



Front of the 36 TFW t-shirt

Back of the t-shirt. The Eagle is from another painting (see below)

The Tiger Polos came out nice. It takes 20,000 stitches to make the patch and lettering.

I have a limited number of squadron decals to sell for .50 each

This original painting, used for the banner art work, will be for sale at the reunion.

I'm also working on a Bulldog version and hope to bring it.

This painting will also be sold at the reunion. Eagle attacking a MiG in typical German clouds. I think it shows the vertical ability of the F-15.

A mosaic made from several hundred photos of people and planes from the time I was in the Tiger Squadron, from 77-80. I hope to make another version from photos supplied by other Bitburg alumni.

A detail of the above mosaic. The yellow dots that reappear are Tiger One's birthday cake.

I'll be selling large Uber Alles decals for jacket backs.

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.

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.

Original Landscapes

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.

"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.

Johannes Vermeer, master of Delft

"Girl With Pearl Earring"