Time to Paint with my Dad

One of the most recent joys of being an artist and painter is having an Aviator for a dad.  His recent homework has included aviation landscape paintings.  So I started digging through my photo files and found this one.
This is a progress shot for a P-51, it sold to a client dressing up her sons bedroom. 

Time to do more aviation themes with my dad!


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