The original prints are a bit steep .... but maybe you could get some Christmas cards and frame them !!!!!! Aviation Art prints and original art from SWA Fine Art Make sure you put them on your list !! :becky: Theres some potted biographies too .... interesting site !
Oh Annie Annie Annie, why? :frusty: What did we do to you? Have we not been nice? Have we not welcomed you with open arms? And yet you post that!!! You wave such goodies in front of our noses....oh, so, so, cruel :cry_smile: :becky:
I only posted it ... 'cos most of them have been sold already !!!!!!!!!! :mosking: I didn't want to tempt you or nothin' .............. !! But if you'd really like a facsimile then you can buy the cards ... tada !!!!! :clapping:
Oh sorry ! ... I forgot about the siggies !!!!!!!!!!!! Well you could always delete my post !!!!!!!!!! :becky:
Oh my, my, my... I LOVE this: Pathfinder Force - Published art and this: Ready for Action - Published art but then this appeared: Supreme Courage prints and was quickly forgotten when this stunner came into view: Wings of Dawn - print Hell, all would be welcome on my wall. Now, with Chrissy around the corner...Have always liked Phil West's work. Sigh.
Do any of you have any fine art prints on your walls? I guess the limiting factors are finance, and the interior decor sensiblities of our spouses/partners! I have one. A couple of years ago my wife had a small legacy, and after paying off our debts (which are now just as bad as they were then), she kindly allowed me to order one picture that I particularly drooled over. It is Russell Smith's painting "Release the Hounds", of a DH2 of 24 Sqdn RFC in 1916. It won the best picture award in the American Society of Aviation Artists Exhibition in 2005. The Art of Russell Smith - Aviation Art, Landscapes and fine art prints Russell Smith does some great work, mainly but not entirely aviation-related, from WW1 and WW2. Apart from the fact that the DH2 is from an era that particularly interested me, I just loved the painting. The slightly yellow-hued colouring makes it look like the contemporary paintings that can be seen in places like the Imperial War Museum, especially when I had it put it in a distressed brass-coloured frame. And the attention to detail is wonderful. The pilot looks apprehensive. The mechanic on the starboard wing is very young. If I wanted to quibble, I wonder if the blue of the British roundels would have been paler blue at that time, but I don't let it worry me. It cost me about £80 by the time I had framed it, and for that reason and because there is no more space on our walls, I don't think I'm going to be allowed any more!
...and just to confirm my membership of the Russell Smith fan-club, this is my desk-top picture. "The Eagle from Arizona", shows ace Frank Luke's SPAD XIII, having just shot down a balloon, just before his death on September 29th, 1918.
Nice picture !! ..... I think your OH spoils you AR !!!!!!! I have pictures of officers of my South Lancs ( Prince of Wales Volunteers ) during the Boer War - framed and on my wall here ... does that count ??
I have a couple of Robert Taylors that I've been lucky enough to either save for when I was single or Jodi has said it'll be a combined birthday and Xmas present. These are the two: Robert Taylor - Wings of Glory Desert Hawks - The Artists Proofs - : Aviation Art, The Art of E-commerce I also picked up a Mossie pencil drawing that Kyt and Kitty put me onto recently. I haven't counted the veterans who signed it recently but it's lots!
:cry_smile: I can only drool.... lets hope they are bought by people who appreciate them rather than those who just want them as investments. :flypig:
