David Rawlins Aviation Art


Other Art:
Scenic (Theatre)

Even More Scenic (Theatre)

Micro Paintings


 

Click on any of the thumbnails below to jump to that painting.

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DCA thumb CSI-ABQ N8842E

Canadian North Departing Regina

Palm Springs, Alaska

DCA

CSI-ABQ

N8842E

 

Peru Thumb

Greased Lightning Thumb

FishCartThumb

Road Trip to Peru

Greased Lightning

Flying Fish Cart Kingfisher on Final N44V - Past and Present

 

Kingfishers Return...

Gravel
Inspector

Winged Warrior

N44V

Hollis Hills

Piedmont Airlines DC-3

 


Canadian North Departing Regina (2020)

48" x 24"

A Canadian North 737-200 equipped with a gravel kit that allows it to operate from unpaved runways.

N8842E

 

Detail
Greased Lightning Detail

This painting was on display at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force in Savannah GA during the Summer of 2022. It was part of the American Society of Aviation Artists annual exhibit.

(It also won 1st place in the Commercial Aviation category.)

 


Palm Springs, Alaska (2019)

12" x 6"

A micro-painting of an Alaska Airlines 737-900 at Palm Springs Internationial Airport.

N8842E

 

Detail
Greased Lightning Detail

This painting was on display somewhere in Kalamazoo MI in 2019 as part of the American Society of Aviation Artists annual exhibit.

(It also won 2nd place in the Commercial Aviation category.)

 


DCA (2017)

48" x 24"

Air Canada about to touchdown in Washington DC.

N8842E

 

Detail
Greased Lightning Detail

This painting was on display at the Virginia Air & Space Center in Hampton VA in 2017 as part of the American Society of Aviation Artists annual exhibit.

(It also won 1st place in the Commercial Aviation category.)

 


CSI - ABQ (2016)

48" x 24"

CSI Aviation's B300 in Albuquerque.

N8842E

 

Detail
Greased Lightning Detail

A painting I was commissioned to paint in 2016.

 


N8842E (2016)

34.5" x 24"

An Eastern Airlines 727 sitting on the tarmac in Tampa, late 1980's.

N8842E

 

Detail
Greased Lightning Detail

This painting was on display in Kalamazoo MI during the Summer of 2016.
It was part of the American Society of Aviation Artists annual exhibit.

 


Road Trip to Peru (2015)

48" x 24"

During the last part of October 2014, my friend Fred Gunther and I took a trip to Grissom AFB to do some research for a B-58 painting I was planning.
Fred was stationed at Bunker Hill AFB (Now Grissom) in the 60's and he worked on the electronics of the B-58 Hustler.
The painting that came out of that was "Greased Lightning" (see below). But I wanted to do something else to remember the trip by.

Greased Lightning

 

Detail
Greased Lightning Detail

This painting was on display at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force in Savannah GA during the Summer of 2015. It was part of the American Society of Aviation Artists annual exhibit.


Greased Lightning (2014)

48" x 24"

Greased Lightning

 

Detail
Greased Lightning Detail

This painting was part of the American Society of Aviation Artists exhibition at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in the Summer of 2014.


Flying Fish Cart (2013)

117" x 72"

FishCart Full

This painting is about the 1952 flight of a South African Air Force C-47 to retrieve a Coelacanth from the Comoros Islands.
The Coelacanth is a prehistoric fish thought to have been extinct for 70 million years until a live one turned up in a South African trawler's net in 1938.
Professor JLB Smith identified the fish as a Coelacanth, and he spent the next 14 years searching for another one.
On Christmas Eve, 1952, he finally received a telegram that another one had been caught, but it was almost 2000 miles away.

 

Detail Views:

The Coelacanth is the only 3 dimensional part of the painting and took about 1 month to construct and it's almost life size.
The 2nd Coelacanth was 4 ft. 6 inches long, mine is 4 ft. 2 inches. Below, my daughter poses with it.

This painting spent the summer of 2015 at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force in Savannah GA. It was part of the American Society of Aviation Artist's annual exhibit. It was given "The Award of Distinction".

(Not bad for a painting that was rejected from an earlier ASAA exhibit.)


N44V - Past and Present (2012)

48" x 38.5"

This painting was on display at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo
June 3 - September 8, 2012

(It won 3rd place in the Commercial Aircraft category)

 

Detail


 

Kingfisher on Final (2012)

48" x 24"

This painting was on display at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo
June 3 - September 8, 2012

 

Detail


Kingfishers Return to the Showboat (2011)

48" x 24"

This painting was on display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola FL
May 1 - August 31, 2011

 

Detail


 

Gravel Inspector (2011)

24" x 48"

This is of my daughter when she was 2 years old.
We were at Gravelly Point, just over the river from Washington DC.
She was completely oblivious to the planes on final approach to Washington National Airport.


 

Winged Warrior (2010)

48" x 27"

This painting was on display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola FL
May 1 - August 31, 2011


 

Winged Warrior (detail)

This was painted for Col. Robert Newman of Wilmington NC, who flew this particular B-17 on 9 missions over Europe.
While I was working on this painting, I had a blog set up for anyone who wanted to see the day to day progress (or lack of) of the painting.

You can see that blog here.


N44V (2010)

48" x 29"

This painting was on display at the Art Center of Battle Creek as part of the
American Society of Aviation Artists 30 Year retrospective exhibit.
June - July 2012

Previously, this painting was displayed at the San Diego Air & Space Museum
June 6 - September 10, 2010

(It won 3rd place in the Commercial Aircraft category)

 

N44V (Detail)


 

Hollis Hills (2009)

48" x 24"

This painting was on display at the Baltimore International Airport, June - Sept, 2013.
(It didn't win anything, but did get an Honorable Mention)

Previously it was displayed at the CAE Horizons of Aviation Art Exhibition in Dallas TX
Jan.31 - April 29, 2011

 

(Detail)

(This painting is (was) going to be used as the box art for a 1/48 scale model due out sometime in 2010)

Update Jan 2011, The company that was going to produce this model kit has for all practical purposes gone out of business.

But, if they hadn't, the box top might have looked like this:

(A series of "in-progress" pictures of this painting can be found here.)


Piedmont Airlines DC-3 (2008)

63" x 48"

 

(Detail)

 


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