Excellent painting of 352nd FG Mustang in action

[Rjel]

 

[Feathered_IV]

Nice one, I like it.

It makes a nice change from the cliché "three-quarter frontal view with burning enemy breaking off to one side" compositions that most aviation artists get stuck on.

[Rjel]

Troy White has an excellent Face Book page. Lots of interesting history and photos.

[Gambit21]

Never been a fan of his stuff. He’s too often afraid of getting bold with color or value - great subject matter though.

[Legioneod]

3 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

Never been a fan of his stuff. He’s too often afraid of getting bold with color or value - great subject matter though.

The work itself is good but I'd have to agree on the color part. Seems like it blends all together a bit to much and not enough contrast between the background and the subject.

Just my opinion and not sure if I'm wording it right but it just seems a bit too bland color wise.

 

[Feathered_IV]

I haven't seen his work before.  Looking through his website, I understand what you mean about the colour.  I like a lot of his compositions though, and they often have a fresh, almost pop art or comic book styling to them that I find quite engaging.

[Finkeren]

Gotta say, I'm not a big fan of his work. Something seems "off" on the color palette on many of his painting, and the aircraft mostly look like they're made of plastic - very little sense of texture and material. 

[CanadaOne]

On ‎4‎/‎20‎/‎2019 at 11:53 PM, Gambit21 said:

Never been a fan of his stuff. He’s too often afraid of getting bold with color or value - great subject matter though.

 

Oh! Your words cut like knives.

[Gambit21]

Here's a much nice example.

Much more accomplished use of value (lights and darks) as well as color. Not to mention a better 'wrist' in the painting department.

 

Troy White also fails to employ atmospheric interference/making background images less intense/less important etc, (both value and color)  and instead

paints aircraft etc in the background in a way that makes them just as important as images in the foreground. This is a basic illustrative concept

which is not being employed to the further detriment of his images. So his work has a certain naivety to it which bothers me personally.

 

[Gambit21]

All see is "PPPFfffftttttt!!!" when you type...except less meaningful.

[Rjel]

Not being an artist myself, I'm hesitant to criticize someone's work. It looks different that the picture Gambit posted which looks blurred and bland to me but I thought that was the point? Artistic impression and all that. We see things differently I suppose. That explains to me why you saw my P-47 skins in a different way than I did myself. Different strokes I guess.

 

[Gambit21]

Some things are just taste, others are if not 'wrong' so to speak, then at least naive as I said.

It's all good. I just prefer work by artists that have a handle on certain foundational principles since I can't untrain my eye to see certain things

or lack thereof.

 

White's work looks a bit "comic book'ish" to me for reasons mentioned, which is just not to my taste.

[CanadaOne]

1 hour ago, Gambit21 said:

Here's a much nice example.

Much more accomplished use of value (lights and darks) as well as color. Not to mention a better 'wrist' in the painting department.

 

Troy White also fails to employ atmospheric interference/making background images less intense/less important etc, (both value and color)  and instead

paints aircraft etc in the background in a way that makes them just as important as images in the foreground. This is a basic illustrative concept

which is not being employed to the further detriment of his images. So his work has a certain naivety to it which bothers me personally.

 

 

 

You art people.

[Feathered_IV]

1 hour ago, Gambit21 said:

White's work looks a bit "comic book'ish" to me for reasons mentioned, which is just not to my taste.

 

Thats how it saw it too.  Mind you, growing up in the country and era when Commando comics were recommended reading for every boy - it does tend to push a few nostalgia buttons for me.