The following pictures are called digital aviation art rather than aviation photographs because of the art filters utilized in Adobe Photoshop to create the impression of oil brush or watercolor paintings. These fantastic filters change the photograph to look as if a brush was painted onto a line drawing, much like a traditional aviation artist will paint. Once applied to the photograph, these filtered pictures can be printed onto canvas and your model can truly look like an original t piece of adoption art.

While all this technology is fantastic and fun to work with, it in know way should ever be passed off as an actual painting, because it is not. These wonderful computer tools have already been terribly misused by the tabloid media to create false pictures of movie stars or insert an alien head onto a dog. Long before serious photographers had a chance to use this technology with any integrity, magazine company’s exploited it for there own little self-serving, immature means, never caring one bit what it would do to the consumers ability to trust what they see. I suppose there will always be those on the lower end of humanity that take anything good and trash it.

My first exposure to Aviation art was in the form of box art in the 1950's and in all the aviation trade magazines. Since that time I am in awe of traditional aviation artist such as Keith Ferris, Frank Wooten, and William Phillips to name only a few. I have a deep respect for the years of training and work it takes before one could create the images they have. They are in a league of their own and no amount of computer skill will ever take the place of what they do when they apply brush to canvas. What am I trying to say? The work you see hear is NOT traditional aviation art and never should there be any attempt to pass it along as traditional aviation art.