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David Rawlins Aviation Art


Kingfishers Return...	Gravel Inspector	Winged Warrior	N44V	Hollis Hills	Piedmont Airlines DC-3

Kingfishers Return to the Showboat (2011)

48" x 24"

This painting will be 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 will be 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 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 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 boxtop 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)