Jet Fighter Oil On Canvas

Douglas,
When I read your thread title, I thought you where applying (exxon 2380) or (mobile jet II) jet oil to your canvases as some sort of medium. :-)
I obviously misunderstood.

Nice painting of an F-101 "Voodoo"!
It has the "feel" of flying very high because, I think, of the very strong sunglint on the canopy.
The clouds/back round is a bit distracting for me though. I do like the reflection of the cloud deck on the belly. But I would rather there be no clouds directly behind or above.

As a former air-to-air photog, there's nothing more beautiful than a bare metal plane "skimming the surface" above a cloud deck with deep blue sky above!

So, for me, the plane is great!
...but I'm having trouble loving the back round.

-Ken
ps; I'm going to follow you. Love your work! :-)

Thanks, Ken. I laughed when I read your first sentence in your comment. Thank you for your critique, I welcome them, good or bad. I too love the look of bare metal aircraft, as they are basically flying mirrors. I love the look of most clouds, and I might overpaint them sometimes...but I have to admit you are the first person I've heard of that thought I should have less of them. In this case I was going for a basic warm and cool color contrast.
Thanks for following me...I posted a F-107A just today, my latest...currently working on a large and complicated painting of LAX...and this one will take awhile.
Take care,
Doug

Beautiful and meticulous image Douglas! I like the color of the clouds, it shows your personality and makes it your art. There are similar warm bright tones in your avatar. Is that the sun reflecting on the metal or a light? That's what makes it different too, I've never seen that in an aviation image, it's unique and I bet it distinguishes your art from others.

Douglas, I love this composition and love your bold color usage. I also added you to my watch list.

Cool image.

I thought it had been painted using actual av oil as well.

Nonetheless, a beautiful painting of a great jet.

Hi Douglas this is nice work on the jet itself, and I poked around your gallery and thought there was some very nice work in there too, but with this one, there is a clash with the orange and yellow clouds against a blue sky.. the sky should be more orange to go with the appearance of a sunset that the clouds are portraying, or, the clouds should be more white to go coincide with a mid-day sun and the blue sky.

I think mixing a bit of jet oil would help keep it real and may be a good marketing idea.

I just think it is a very nice work... including your choice of colors.

I very much appreciate everyone's comments on my painting of this classic jet. It is very much appreciated, even any negative comments, in fact, maybe more so.
As far as sky colors go, there is certainly some artistic license in effect here, but you might be surprised how colorful clouds can get, even with blue sky above, if the sun is low but still casting light far above. I've spent decades looking at skies very carefully. Of course, these effects may last only a minute or two, and as an artist I have no problem saturating color for effect. As far as the sun glint on the canopy, with this series of what I call "artistic profiles," I've included it on all of them, including all the World War Two planes I've done.
Thank you all!

Hiya Douglas,

I looked at your artwork and especially loved your aviation paintings. Painting Jets, passenger jets, etc. must be a very specialized field of illustration. I'm also from the field of illustration, so as a relative newcomer, I welcome you to FAA. Glad to see another illustrator coming aboard the good ship FAA. I will check out the rest of your art tomorrow but right now I have to get to bed or I will turn into a pumpkin.

Your paintings look like they were done in oil, beautiful technique. It looks layered the same as oils can be layered. Blending and your brush makes it look just like the oil medium, it seems to be pretty much the same techniques that are used. I'm just starting to draw and paint on GIMP. It's a lot of fun, just started to layer paint, it doesn't seem much different than oils just cleaner and the flexibility is great, although I don't have much experience with oils.

Suzanne, this painting of the RF-101 jet is an oil painting. Most of my aviation art is in oil, with the rest watercolor and digital painting (Corel Painter, cintiq, and not just using filters, but actually digital painting). My landscapes leans more towards watercolor, but still lots of oils.
Have fun learning GIMP and thanks for your kind comments.
And to Harold...thanks for the welcome here and I will be sure to look at your work here as well, after I head to the gym, or I'll get as fat as a pumpkin.

Douglas,

I was looking for an abstract painting as well. You know oil on canvas. I think Pollock did some of those.

I like this painting a lot.

Dave

Sorry Douglas I assumed, nice you can do both!

David, abstract is only one style of many, everyone who paints in oils or digital does not necessarily paint in abstract.

Suzanne,

I like your work.

I think many of us were looking for "Jet Fighter Oil" spread over the canvas.

It is funny where Pollock has led our group thinking. We thought of a figurative painting last. In
fact many of us had to see a figurative painting after clicking on the thread to believe it was indeed a figurative painting.

Some of us had to reorder how we read the title.

Suzanne, any time someone makes a figurative painting to get the image onto the 2 dimensional canvas, they
use abstract forms organized to look like the subject. In this regard, and it the basis of all art, all art is made from abstracts.


Dave

David, You are referring to abstract using the a definition that is different than the abstract definition I was referring to which is a specific style. If that is the definition you are using then his gallery should be full of abstracts? You all are joking about the oil, OK I get it.

Suzanne,

Seriously many of us thought Jet fighter oil spread on canvas.
To be honest scanning the title I did not get to the word canvas.

Dave

I didn't even notice the word oil to be honest, I assumed it was the same medium as his digital work I was looking at. Artists usually don't do both, since he is a graphic artist too he is well versed in different mediums (watercolor too).

I'm sorry I titled this discussion as I did, I really didn't mean to misrepresent or confuse anyone...and didn't even think to word it better...maybe because I just don't do "contemporary art" or use strange mediums, as I love the traditional oil medium, as well as transparent watercolor. I'll learn from this and next time I will be more careful.
Strictly speaking, it is true that all paintings are "abstract," but the term still refers most commonly to non-representational art, at least to people who never had an art history class, LOL.

Thanks Douglas, sometimes David gets a little "deep" and you have to try to translate if you can understand what he is saying! It's not how you wrote it (how do you miss the word oil, or think it is jet engine oil?! lol) Douglas it's everyone here (except the oil painters) that had trouble picking up on what is not familiar to their medium at the end of the day!

After you have been here a while it has an effect on you. lol I'm going to be laughing to myself all night about this but not at your expense!