I've just finished this piece, a SouthWestern Art piece, that I'm calling "Thundstorm Over Sedona"

In this scene, a dramatic sunset illuminates a passing thunderstorm behind red-rock formations in Sedona, Arizona.

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I'm working on multiple projects at the same time: 1) F-15 nose art, 2) Acrylic painting, 3) Corsair Artwork and this series 4) Raptor series. This is the F-16 Fighting Falcon, one of several of my raptor series. It's a work in progress. Obviously, watermarks aren't part of the final. 

July 24, 1897 was the birthday of Amelia Earhart.

Amelia Earhart, noted American aviation pioneer and author made an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra. 

Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.

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"Serenity II" by Dale Jackson
Acrylic on stretched canvas (reused canvas from a discarded painting)

First I applied about 2 layers of acrylic gesso to cover over an old canvas print.

Then with ultramarine and brilliant blue, mixed with titanium white and a touch of mars black painted the background sky, with the lighter color gradient toward the bottom. The initial set of clouds is a mixture of a touch of marks black mixed with leftover blue from the sky. This is a work in progress.

note: I'm taking a slight break on my digital work of the Corsair to knock out some acrylic pieces.

My current project that I am working on is titled "Sundown for Bougainville Corsairs."

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The scene is set in the years between 1943 and 1944 with Ace Lt. JG. Ira Kepford's famous #29 F4U-1A Corsair.

'He won his first Distinguished Flying Cross for an aerial battle over the Solomon Islands, his squadron confronted 100 enemy aircraft. The citation read: ``In the ensuing attack, Ens. Kepford pressed his attack with such determination that he succeeded in destroying four enemy bombing planes and severely damaged another. He repeatedly went down through anti-aircraft fire to press his attack to completion. He also participated in 48 other combat missions, six of which were opposed by intense and accurate anti-aircraft fire.'

He had shot down a total of 16 enemy aircraft, the highest number of any ace in the U.S. Navy, when he returned home to a hero`s welcome in 1944.

He received two Navy Crosses, the award second only to the Congressional Medal of Honor for naval personnel. The Northwestern University Alumni Association in 1944 awarded him its top honor." (http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-01-21/news/8701060217_1_rexall-navy-fighter-pilot-aircraft)

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This piece, "Sundown for Bougainville Corsairs" paints a scene of one of America's top Ace who flew with the fighter squadron, VF-17, during a routine patrol over the Solomon Islands.

The other plane in the background will be Roger Hedrick's.