David Rawlins Aviation Art
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Scenic (Theatre)
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Micro Paintings
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Canadian North Departing Regina |
Palm Springs, Alaska |
DCA | CSI-ABQ |
N8842E |
Road Trip to Peru |
Greased Lightning |
Flying Fish Cart | Kingfisher on Final | N44V - Past and Present |
Kingfishers Return... |
Gravel |
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.
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. |
12" x 6"
A micro-painting of an Alaska Airlines 737-900 at Palm Springs Internationial Airport.
Detail
This
painting was on display somewhere in Kalamazoo MI in 2019 as part of the American Society of Aviation Artists annual exhibit. |
48" x 24"
Air Canada about to touchdown in Washington DC.
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. |
48" x 24"
CSI Aviation's B300 in Albuquerque.
Detail
A painting I was commissioned to paint in 2016. |
34.5" x 24"
An Eastern Airlines 727 sitting on the tarmac in Tampa, late 1980's.
Detail
This
painting was on display in Kalamazoo MI during the Summer of 2016. |
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.
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. |
48" x 24"
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. |
117" x 72"
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 (It won 3rd place in the Commercial Aircraft category) |
Detail
48" x 24"
This
painting was on display at the Kalamazoo
Air Zoo |
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 |
Detail
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.
48" x 27"
This
painting was on display at the National
Museum of Naval Aviation
in Pensacola FL |
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.
48" x 29"
This
painting was on display at the Art
Center of Battle Creek as part of the Previously,
this painting was displayed at the San
Diego Air & Space Museum (It won 3rd place in the Commercial Aircraft category) |
N44V (Detail)
48" x 24"
This painting was on display at the Baltimore International Airport, June - Sept, 2013. Previously it was displayed at the CAE
Horizons of Aviation Art Exhibition in Dallas TX |
(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.)
63" x 48"
(Detail)
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