Other Subjects

Art is such a diverse subject that it literally has no beginning, no middle, and no ending: basically it's a genre where anything goes, and everything is acceptable, whether you can understand the image, or not.  That is why a landscape painting is just as viable as an unrecognisable piece of abstract art - simplistically, it's a what you feel, more that what you see, scenario: the no lose, no win situation...

Below are some of my other works.

Asian Shaman
On 5mm 9 x 7 inch bevelled glass
non-coloured

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Optical Crystal Glass Paperweight Cube: 

Mirrored finished glass depicting the

hand-engraved symbol of Caduceus (non-coloured)

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"Remember Me"
Hand Engraved Glass, 8x10 inches, uncoloured

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Sunderland Railway Station circa 1957

Hand engraved on to A4 glass and coloured in pewter.

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"Nathan"
A4 glass, 2mm thick, completely sandblasted

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"Two Dragons"

2mm glass, sandblasted design, 8x6 inches, coloured in silver leaf wax.

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"The Knight Templar"

2mm glass, hand-engraved, size A4, coloured in silver leaf.

This engraving was disposed of after the glass was found damaged.

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"The Tuskegee Airmen"

In commemoration of their heroic deeds of World War 2 I decide to remember these brave African-American folk in a glass engraving.  It is on 2mm glass, it is a double-sided engraving, sized A4, and is coloured in silver leaf, red, and black.

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In spite of adversity and limited opportunities, African Americans have played a significant role in U.S. military history over the past 300 years. They were denied military leadership roles and skilled training because many believed they lacked qualifications for combat duty. Before 1940, African Americans were barred from flying for the U.S. military. Civil rights organizations and the black press exerted pressure that resulted in the formation of an all African-American pursuit squadron based in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1941. They became known as the Tuskegee Airmen.

The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African American pilots who fought in World War II.  Formally, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps.

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in the United States armed forces.  During World War II, African Americans in many U.S. states still were subject to the Jim Crow laws.  The American military was racially segregated, as was much of the federal government.  The Tuskegee Airmen were subjected to racial discrimination, both within and outside the army.  Despite these adversities, they trained and flew with distinction. Primarily made up of African Americans, there were also five Tuskegee Airmen of Haitian descent.

Although the 477th Bombardment Group "worked up" on North American B-25 Mitchell bombers, they never served in combat; the Tuskegee 332nd Fighter Group was the only operational unit, first sent overseas as part of Operation Torch, then seeing action in Sicily and Italy, before being deployed as bomber escorts in Europe, where they were particularly successful in virtually all their missions.

The Tuskegee Airmen initially were equipped with Curtiss P-40 Warhawks fighter-bomber aircraft, briefly with Bell P-39 Airacobras (March 1944), later with Republic P-47 Thunderbolts (June–July 1944), and finally with the aircraft with which they became most commonly associated, the North American P-51 Mustang (July 1944). When the pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group painted the tails of their P-47s and later, P-51s, red, the nickname "Red Tails" was coined. Bomber crews applied a more effusive "Red-Tail Angels" sobriquet.

(source: wikipedia)

"Night Flight"

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All Gave Some - Some Gave All

(Donated)

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Michelangelo's David

(Damaged)

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Drago

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Two Red Cardinals

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Slack Coat of Arms

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Disablement

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