I recently came across an old drawing that's a good number of years old. I had to top work on it because I had to quickly and hastily move my studio to a much smaller room to take care of an elderly relative. Since then, I had lost the will and drive to work on it and it was hastily stored somewhere in some recess of a room. Well, as I'm beginning to get my original studio back in place, I found the old drawing and have begun work on it.

The drawing is a collage that represents the crews that operate and take care of the RC-135 system. The upper half of the drawing represent flight and recon crews and the lower half will represent maintenance crews - it takes a lot of effort and hard work to keep these venerable aircraft aloft. 

Here's some photos of my work-in-progress on this drawing. As I continue work on it, I hope to finish it in the coming months.

StratoArt.com

After a bit of a break from art, I returned to it jumping right into a big 24" x 18" drawing of an EA-6B Prowler nearly launch from a carrier. 

The EA-6B Prowler was the primary tactical jamming aircraft of the US Navy and the US Marine Corps from the early 1970s to 2019. The Prowler first entered service in the 1971 and has demonstrated its battlefield performance in Southeast Asia, in Operation Desert Storm, in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Kosovo, enforcing the northern no-fly zone over Iraq and in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The USN had a fleet of 124 Prowlers which equipped USN aircraft carriers, forward land bases and the US Marine Corps squadrons. The aircraft was retired in 2019 and replaced by the EA-18G Growler, an electronic attack version of the F/A-18 Super Hornet.

Here is a short, two minute video time-lapse of the whole process. It took approximately 25 hours to draw, working on it off and on since Feb. 26th.