An elephant and Corsairs at RNAS Putulam
An older sketch, done to while away an evening and draw something different. I was inspired by a painting by aviation artist Robert Taylor. I like elephants, and Vought Corsairs, seeing his painting set me on the path to looking up the story of the elephants used to pull bogged down aeroplanes out of the mud at RNAS Putalam in Sri Lanka. I also looked up 'Somerfield track' as the temporary wartime runway was made of the wire-based reinforcement with a view to putting some in the foreground of the drawing. The glowering rain clouds were an opportunity to use the edge of the pencil lead for a change too. If I was to change the drawing at all it would be to use a bit more blending in the sky and foreground now I have discovered paper blending stumps. Drawn with A mixture of 0.3 and 0.5 mechanical pencils with HB leads on an A4 sketchpad.
An elephant and Corsairs at RNAS Putulam
An older sketch, done to while away an evening and draw something different. I was inspired by a painting by aviation artist Robert Taylor. I like elephants, and Vought Corsairs, seeing his painting set me on the path to looking up the story of the elephants used to pull bogged down aeroplanes out of the mud at RNAS Putalam in Sri Lanka. I also looked up 'Somerfield track' as the temporary wartime runway was made of the wire-based reinforcement with a view to putting some in the foreground of the drawing. The glowering rain clouds were an opportunity to use the edge of the pencil lead for a change too. If I was to change the drawing at all it would be to use a bit more blending in the sky and foreground now I have discovered paper blending stumps. Drawn with A mixture of 0.3 and 0.5 mechanical pencils with HB leads on an A4 sketchpad.