Acrylic on canvas. 24 x 18 inches.
This is a commissioned painting of Beechcraft B58 Baron N558TH over an idealized Caribbean scene, in late afternoon sun. One big challenge with this painting was recreating the luminous quality of the blue water, which I accomplished through glazing. When viewing the actual painting, this characteristic is particularly striking. Another challenge was the blue-purple-red designs on the airplane, which in reality are a color-changing paint which shows wildly different colors depending upon the angle of view and the strength of the light. I underpainted those with iridescent silver and covered that with colored glazes. The silver stripes are in iridescent silver. This is the second and only version of this painting, the first version having been destroyed in the Tubbs fire on October 9, 2017, Sonoma County, when it was approximately 50% complete.