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Aviation Locations and Aircraft Types => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Jay Beckman on April 29, 2015, 12:41:48 AM

Title: Aviation Art
Post by: Jay Beckman on April 29, 2015, 12:41:48 AM
If the powers that be don't mind, perhaps we can use this thread for those images which simply don't fit a particular aircraft, place or event or images pushed to well out on the bleeding edge of creative vision.
A few words about each image might be of help to those who view these "one off" creations...

Long Slow Decent .. Porterville, CA .. April, 2015
Very neglected aircraft of unknown type.
Image began life as five bracketed frames shot through a gaping hole in the fuselage fabric.  I blended them through the new HDR feature in Lightroom CC and then washed that file through Photoshop to use Viveza and Silver Effex Pro.

(http://crosswindimages.com/img/s7/v160/p1143206955-6.jpg)
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Jay Beckman on May 15, 2015, 03:45:39 PM
Motivation...
(http://crosswindimages.com/img/s12/v182/p1182115287-6.jpg)
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: scottcolbath on May 15, 2015, 07:06:55 PM
Quote from: Jay Beckman on May 15, 2015, 03:45:39 PM
Motivation...
(http://crosswindimages.com/img/s12/v182/p1182115287-6.jpg)

Looks like a motorcycle got loose on the runway in this pic.  8)

Cool stuff Jay, and I like the idea of this thread.

S.C.
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Jay Beckman on May 26, 2015, 02:06:24 PM
Rust Never Sleeps
(http://crosswindimages.com/img/s12/v180/p1206141535-6.jpg)
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Jay Beckman on June 10, 2015, 02:57:00 PM
Phantom: Texas 2012
Clouds: Phoenix 2015
(http://crosswindimages.com/img/s9/v91/p1242711919-6.jpg)
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Jay Beckman on June 20, 2015, 11:07:59 PM
Something in a "Greenwich Workshop" format
(http://crosswindimages.com/img/s12/v170/p1267570324-6.jpg)
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Matt Ottosen on June 22, 2015, 05:43:41 PM
Those are very, very cool, Vance!
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: wingsnstuff on June 22, 2015, 07:11:34 PM
Thank you Matt.  I don't have a clue how he transformed my motionless stills into a believable flight image.  Tony is a digital Wizard. 
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Matt Ottosen on June 22, 2015, 07:25:44 PM
Quote from: wingsnstuff on June 22, 2015, 07:11:34 PM
Thank you Matt.  I don't have a clue how he transformed my motionless stills into a believable flight image.  Tony is a digital Wizard. 

I don't have any idea how he did it either, but he did an amazing job.
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Jay Beckman on June 22, 2015, 08:53:14 PM
That is some fine "re-animation" work.  The only telltale clue would be the reflections of the museum structures.
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: wingsnstuff on June 29, 2015, 11:05:34 AM
Thanks Matt and Jay.  The reflections are a give away, but just slightly.  I was absolutely stunned when Tony showed me what he had done with the my images.  They really have been re-animated through his wizardry.  Thanks again guys.
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Jay Beckman on July 14, 2015, 12:39:38 AM
Put the stylus down and slowly back away....
(http://crosswindimages.com/img/s7/v152/p1322093419-6.jpg)
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Jay Beckman on August 03, 2015, 03:58:19 PM
The Beginning Of The End
(http://crosswindimages.com/img/s4/v64/p1370089621-6.jpg)
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Mike Margolis on August 04, 2015, 01:39:59 PM
Quote from: Jay Beckman on August 03, 2015, 03:58:19 PM
The Beginning Of The End
Wow!! Powerful!!
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Jay Beckman on August 04, 2015, 11:08:08 PM
Opening Day Of Turkey Season
Texas Flying Legends' Zero and Corsair romp at Oshkosh 2015
(http://crosswindimages.com/img/s9/v17/p1373666907-6.jpg)
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Joe Copalman on August 05, 2015, 12:22:55 AM
Loving these creations Jay.
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Jay Beckman on August 05, 2015, 01:21:29 AM
Thanks.  Just letting the pixel dust fall where it may on these...
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Jay Beckman on August 05, 2015, 11:11:05 PM
Going Downtown
(A variation on a theme)
(http://crosswindimages.com/img/s9/v2/p1376462347-6.jpg)
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Dave S. on May 08, 2017, 09:32:29 AM
While probably not quite what Jay was intending with this thread, it's the closest I could find that looked fitting.  While the previous images take us on a visit to the past, thought I'd throw in one option of what might happen...some day.
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Jay Beckman on May 08, 2017, 10:21:59 AM
Quote from: Dave S. on May 08, 2017, 09:32:29 AM
While probably not quite what Jay was intending with this thread, it's the closest I could find that looked fitting.  While the previous images take us on a visit to the past, thought I'd throw in one option of what might happen...some day.

If Only...

Nice repaint Dave.
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Jay Beckman on May 08, 2017, 03:23:39 PM
Playing With Textures...

(http://crosswindimages.com/img/s11/v28/p2314505782-5.jpg)
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Joe Copalman on January 29, 2018, 11:22:58 PM
Never thought I'd have anything worthwhile to post to this thread, but I was going through my 'OV-10 Stuff' box tonight (everyone has one of those, right?) and came across a series of 'Wee OV' drawings I did in the late 90s.  If I recall correctly, the process I used on these was that I hand-drew an original outline, scanned it in, then printed it out, did the color and markings with PrismaColor markers, then did the fine-line markings with an ultra-fine gel pen on top of it.  The biggest problem I had was that I made them too small, so even the finest tip on the PrismaColors made anything I wrote with them look like a first-grader wrote it with a crayon.  Had I doubled the size, I could have gotten far more detail, and bleeding wouldn't have been nearly as problematic (I did a NASA OV-10 that bled like crazy and looks horrible). 
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Joe Copalman on January 29, 2018, 11:36:39 PM
Aaaaand one more. 

This one isn't very good, but of interest because I drew it using a photo Scott Youmans had taken of a Bureau of Land Management OV at Sky Harbor back in the 90s. 
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Anna M. Wood on January 30, 2018, 10:35:16 AM
Those are very cool Joe....
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Jay Beckman on January 30, 2018, 10:43:08 AM
So Joe was "Blackheart" before Blackheart was Blackheart...

Nice!
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Matt Ottosen on February 02, 2018, 04:58:06 PM
Pretty cool, Joe!
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: scottcolbath on April 09, 2018, 08:31:30 PM
Quote from: wingsnstuff on April 09, 2018, 08:59:44 AM
Call it a Wingsnstuff Photoshop Service Life Extension Plan (SLEP) :-). Here's the BEFORE and AFTER


When are you opening a virtual body shop?

S.C.
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: wingsnstuff on April 16, 2018, 07:51:58 AM
 ;D Wouldn't that be a hoot!  Fix it on the computer and it automatically translates to the physical object.  All the best to you Scott and the rest of the AZAP group.  Maybe I can hook up with you all again this coming August when Susie and I make our pilgrimage back to Arizona from South Carolina.  I do miss going out on the photo shoots with you all.   :'(
Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: tajmahal250 on December 19, 2018, 08:12:40 AM
One of those "I wonder......" ideas....

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4836/32508574748_cc769f00c0_b.jpg)[/url]MI 24 Edit (https://flic.kr/p/RwEWG5) by Thomas  Backus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/machtwoimages/), on Flickr[/img]

Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: tajmahal250 on February 18, 2019, 09:26:12 AM
Inspired by Mike Kelley's work "Wake Turbulence," I tried to create my own version. Didn't come out exactly how I wanted to, but still pretty happy. Guess I gotta go back.....

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7896/32194199497_ab3d525feb_h.jpg)[/url]CAUTION, WAKE TURBULENCE, 24 RIGHT (https://flic.kr/p/R3TFT8) by Thomas  Backus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/machtwoimages/), on Flickr[/img]

Title: Re: Aviation Art
Post by: Tower Guy on February 18, 2019, 07:25:16 PM
Nice work Thomas, looks great!