Oil studies

A recent inventory of work in the drawer of my plan chest revealed a number of pieces which have not made it online (or anywhere else) for various reasons. The two oil studies are from photographs taken at the RAF Museum are part of my oil painting education process.

RE 8 At the RAF Museum

Bleriot Monoplane at the RAF Museum

A mile from Glory

The latest work is a study centred on the race to be the first to fly the English Channel in a heavier the air flying machine.

The history books will tell you that Louis Bleriot was the first pilot to cross the channel in July 1909. He was not the only one to try, another Frenchman Hubert Latham made two attempts and ditched in the Channel on both occasions, the second only a mile from the English coast.

Hubert Latham ditches a mile from the English coast.