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This is the final completed of a piece I have posted related development for in the past. It is commission for a patient client 
abakan since it is horribly late in delivery.
I titled the piece "Approaching storm" for two reasons. First there is a weather system approaching which promises to bring rainy weather to the area in a few hours. Second the sky is crisscrossed with the contrails of a recent bomber raid and the fighters that went up to intercept them. This is the storm that will eventually engulf all of the Third Reich. This piece is set roughly in early May of 1944 in Nazi Germany. The Luftwaffe has not yet been forced to abandon its airfields for the forests of Germany, but already the airfield is starting to show the signs of recent visits from USAAF fighters returning from their escort missions.
In the background can be seen the smoke burning fires denoting where aircraft, either Axis and Allied, have met their final demise, and yet in spite of all this carnage we still find two individuals able to spend sometime together and forget about the war even if for just a moment.
When I took this commission I had rather mixed feeling about it. I did not want create a piece that could be viewed as being supportive or sympathetic to the Nazi ideology, and yet I did not want to have the piece full of one-dimensional cardboard villains. In the end what I wanted to show was two individuals trying to maintain their sanity in the midst of the greatest conflict in recorded history.
The piece is done in my usual colored pencil, marker, technical pen and gouache on vellum finish Bristol Board. The image size is roughly 16"x 24". I will post more about this piece in the future.
abakan since it is horribly late in delivery.I titled the piece "Approaching storm" for two reasons. First there is a weather system approaching which promises to bring rainy weather to the area in a few hours. Second the sky is crisscrossed with the contrails of a recent bomber raid and the fighters that went up to intercept them. This is the storm that will eventually engulf all of the Third Reich. This piece is set roughly in early May of 1944 in Nazi Germany. The Luftwaffe has not yet been forced to abandon its airfields for the forests of Germany, but already the airfield is starting to show the signs of recent visits from USAAF fighters returning from their escort missions.
In the background can be seen the smoke burning fires denoting where aircraft, either Axis and Allied, have met their final demise, and yet in spite of all this carnage we still find two individuals able to spend sometime together and forget about the war even if for just a moment.
When I took this commission I had rather mixed feeling about it. I did not want create a piece that could be viewed as being supportive or sympathetic to the Nazi ideology, and yet I did not want to have the piece full of one-dimensional cardboard villains. In the end what I wanted to show was two individuals trying to maintain their sanity in the midst of the greatest conflict in recorded history.
The piece is done in my usual colored pencil, marker, technical pen and gouache on vellum finish Bristol Board. The image size is roughly 16"x 24". I will post more about this piece in the future.
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that is the problem, people see Germans of this period as all being evil, but in reality many of them were just fighting for their country by this stage of the war. I think this image does well to show that regardless of their personal or political beliefs, they were just people doing a job that was needed at the time. I just wish that people would learn that the Allies were not all 'love everyone and do nothing wrong' like they are made out to be.
Stalin murdered millions with his death camps for things as simple as failing to meet an unreasonably high demand placed on them, There are reports now surfacing that the 'Free French Forces' executed almost every German they caught, Civilian or not, as retribution. The Americans rolled into one German town that had surrendered, only to have one fanatic shoot at them with a sniper rifle from a bell tower. They shot the fanatic, pulled back out of the town, shelled it and its civilians for 24 hours and then moved back in to 'capture it' after killing thousands of civilians.
Yet all you hear about is how evil the Nazis were and all the evil things they did, yet these atrocities (and many others i am sure) are ignored and not taught in history classes......i guess history truly is written by the victor.
Stalin murdered millions with his death camps for things as simple as failing to meet an unreasonably high demand placed on them, There are reports now surfacing that the 'Free French Forces' executed almost every German they caught, Civilian or not, as retribution. The Americans rolled into one German town that had surrendered, only to have one fanatic shoot at them with a sniper rifle from a bell tower. They shot the fanatic, pulled back out of the town, shelled it and its civilians for 24 hours and then moved back in to 'capture it' after killing thousands of civilians.
Yet all you hear about is how evil the Nazis were and all the evil things they did, yet these atrocities (and many others i am sure) are ignored and not taught in history classes......i guess history truly is written by the victor.
First of all, history is not well taught any more. If it was, we wouldn't be repeating it's folly over and over again. Second, I can't argue with you that atrocities were committed on both sides of WWII, as they were with all history's conflicts before and since. Lastly, William Tecumseh Sherman laid out the realities of war quite well in his letter to the mayor of Atlanta GA during the American Civil War.
A lovely piece of Artwork!
Maybe the theme is touching a bit of stories like these:
"Der letzte Flug" (Last flight):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WKK1RQoewM
It could have been names "Vanishing of the little prince".
It got english subtitles.
Maybe the theme is touching a bit of stories like these:
"Der letzte Flug" (Last flight):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WKK1RQoewM
It could have been names "Vanishing of the little prince".
It got english subtitles.
This one took you a good bit of time. I am curious on how you were able to do the changes with the color pencil, as I've found it seems to be unforgiving after you placeing it down from removing or changing the color. They do still seem relaxed at this later stage of the war.
Woah! The aircraft in this image are close to the variant of the FW 190 that I favor, I had to do a little research and found that it was the later FW 190 A-8 or so, but it reminded me of a model I built of an FW 190 A-7 which I had in my teen years. It was the first model I ever had which was arbrushed, and it sat on the shelf for years until my dad and my brother got into a brawl and my drunker father fell back on the shelf smasing the model flat. He never apologized for the mishap either. (I'm not sure if he even remembered the act.)
NAZI was a political party (National Socialist German Workers' Party) forced upon the majority of Germans (want to work, eat, own property? JOIN!) I look upon the German Army of WW2 as the best in the world, simply led by an idiot (smarter than Shrub Jr but still an idiot) and given substandard equipment. Had they had competent leadership and the NAZI party hadn't taken power, ho boy, the world would have been in serious trouble.
I would not have had a bit of trouble working with the average German solider, say during an attack by South Africa (I forget the name of that series, it was back in the 1990's.) However the SS and Gestapo were another matter, Those people were stark raving mad.
A beautiful piece, one that could just as well be England in 1940.
I would not have had a bit of trouble working with the average German solider, say during an attack by South Africa (I forget the name of that series, it was back in the 1990's.) However the SS and Gestapo were another matter, Those people were stark raving mad.
A beautiful piece, one that could just as well be England in 1940.
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