The planes are flying high

Continuing with the airplane theme, I give you this navy corsair.  It was, of course, super fun to paint.  I've liked these since the first time I ever saw one as a kid.  I think is must be the crazy bent wings.  At any rate, this is my interpretation of one of these great planes.

Oh, and I made a video of it.  If you care to watch it can be found here.

I didn't intend to do this, but it seems like the whole painting was done with a couple of different shades of blue.  They were ultramarine, pthalo, and cerulean.  Both the plane and the sky are basically nothing but these three colors.  I'm glad I put in a little yellow on the nose and the red in the logo.

I'd love to get some feedback on this.  Let me know what you think either here or on the video link.  Thank you

Flying High

Wanted to do something just a bit outside my comfort zone last night.  This is what I came up with.  It is a little tight, but I'll probably have another go at it and see if I can't loosen it up a bit.

Im happy with the sky, and happy with the mottling of the green on the plane, but somehow I just don't think it comes together quite right.

I don't quite know, but I don't think its too bad.  Let me know what you think.

Taking Flight

We have had a bit of turnover at work.  We got a new ASC and she is into airplanes.  I thought it would be a good exercise to paint one.  This is a quick sketch of a plane that she likes.  Its called the Boomerang, and apparently is a prototype made by Burt Rutan.  I know its just all blue around the plane.  It's kind of like giving up on the background.  And I know that given the angle, you should be seeing ground under the plane instead of all sky.

Well, it's just a quick painting I did.  I didn't plan on spending a whole lot of time paint this, and therefore just wanted to block in some background.

Let me say one other thing.  I got some new software for my scanner.  Since I started using it, the pictures I have put up here have been terrible.  I don't know if it is all the scanners fault, or if it is something else, but when I post to blogger the color of the pictures goes all wonky.  If I look at them locally on my machine, they look great.  I'm going to get to the bottom of it, so please be patient while I work it out.  Thank you.