This is a work-in-progress of a digital painting within ArtRage of a painting of an abandoned boat.

Okay, here's my color mixer palette for Photoshop (CS6 and above only). These colors are my own Winsor & Newton limited palette colors (except I don't use black anymore). To use it, you have to use the Mixer Brush Tool (not a normal brush) in Photoshop. Color mixing has been added to Photoshop since CS5 I believe, and is a great tool. Please read the instructions text file in the .zip file that I'm linking here. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask away in the comments below, and I'll do my best to answer. Happy painting! https://www.dropbox.com/s/rt9ri1q0ljjpmnk/StratoArt%20limited%20color%20palette.zip?dl=0

A TR-1A (U-2 recon aircraft) operating at 70,000 feet. "The U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is a single-engine, ultra-high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force (USAF). It provides day and night, very high-altitude (70,000 feet / 21,000 m), all-weather intelligence gathering.The U-2 has also been used for electronic sensor research, satellite calibration, and communications purposes. The U-2 is one of a handful of aircraft types to have served the USAF for over 50 years. The newest models (TR-1, U-2R, U-2S) entered service in the 1980s." (wiki)

On December 7th, 1941, seventy four years ago was the event of the devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. The attack came as a profound shock to the American people and led directly to the American entry into World War II in both the Pacific and European theaters. The following day, the United States declared war on Japan. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." Pictured below is my painting showing a small boat rescuing a seaman from the USS West Virginia - based on one of the photographs of the event.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/a-spring-morning-at-bag-end-dale-jackson.html Painting. Oil on Canvas. Inspired by Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Hobbiton of the Shire in the morning golden sunlight. Brilliant, green-gold grasses and awakening flowers bathe Bilbo Baggins home of Bag End and Bag Shot Row in this idyllic Spring scene.

Portrait of Alexander Graham Bell

The sun sets over a dramatic California sky.

Astronaut in space with the vast galaxy and nebulous regions of space behind him.

Winston Churchill

Early morning at Huntington Beach Pier, California.

Famous Aviators & Aces Series. Portrait One. Charles Lindbergh. Lindbergh was world famous for his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight on May 20-21, 1927, made from Roosevelt Field located in Garden City on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km), in the single-seat, single-engine purpose built Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh, a U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve officer, was also awarded the nation's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his historic exploit.

View from South Rim - a beautiful view into Grand Canyon.

Panoramic view of Grand Canyon from the South Rim.

A sailboat departs for the calm open sea during sunset. Iconic Diamond Head looms in the distance.

Hot air balloons rise in the early morning light.

In this Southwestern Art scene, a dramatic sunset illuminates a passing thunderstorm behind red rock formations in Sedona, Arizona.

The tumult of crashing waves over rocks.

Digital Landscape painting triptych

Cutty Sark during the golden hour. "Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion." (wiki)

F/A-18 Hornets returning to their home on USS Nimitz (CVN-68) after a long sortie. "USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is a supercarrier of the United States Navy, and the lead ship of her class. One of the largest warships in the world, USS Nimitz was commissioned on 30 June 1975." The ship was named for World War II Pacific fleet commander Chester W. Nimitz,

Early morning sunrise illuminates beautiful Big Bear Lake, California.

I created this vector gradient mesh of F/A-18 Hornets at rest on a carrier. Time of completion = 40 hours.

I created this fighter pilot helmet using the vector gradient mesh technique with Adobe Illustrator. Time of completion = 30 hours.

Vector F-16 created with Adobe Gradient Mesh technique - time of completion = 30 hours.

An F/A-18 Hornet launches from the catapult from a USN Carrier.

A USN Destroyer w/ accompanying SH-60 Seahawk displays it's battle ensign while on combat maneuvers. Dedicated to my brother who is in the U.S. Navy.

"The Arleigh Burke-class of guided missile destroyers (DDGs) are the United States Navy's first class of destroyer built around the Aegis Combat System and the SPY-1D multi-function phased array radar. The class is named for Admiral Arleigh Burke, the most famous American destroyer officer of World War II, and later Chief of Naval Operations. The class leader, USS Arleigh Burke, was commissioned during Admiral Burke's lifetime." (wiki)

A flight of F6F Hellcats await takeoff orders on the aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga during a battle in the Pacific .In the background a TBM Avenger is landing. Photo restoration and painting transformation from a public domain Navy archive photo.

"Beauty Pass" F-16 Fighting Falcon

Digital Painting of a UH-60 Blackhawk

Print for sale: http://fineartamerica.com/fe…/b-58-hustler-dale-jackson.html. Also including are some views of the close up detail work. If you'd like to have a custom profile, contact me through here or my site at: www.StratoArt.com

"The B-17 Flying Fortress was primarily employed by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the daylight precision strategic bombing campaign of World War II against German industrial and military targets. The United States Eighth Air Force, based at many airfields in southern England, and the Fifteenth Air Force, based in Italy, complemented the RAF Bomber Command's nighttime area bombing in the Combined Bomber Offensive to help secure air superiority over the cities, factories and battlefields of Western Europe in preparation for the invasion of France in 1944. The B-17 also participated to a lesser extent in the War in the Pacific, early in World War II, where it conducted raids against Japanese shipping and airfields." (wiki) The aircraft represented here is a B-17G-20-BO 42-31616 The Spirit of 'FLAK-WOLF' of the 427th BS flown by 1Lt Emmittes Harrison, February 1944. On 09 April 1944 (Mission 132) to Marienburg 1Lt Harrison and his crew were "scheduled to fly in B-17G Spirit of Flak Wolf in which they had flown 14 missions. As guns were being loaded the Operations Officer drove up and told the crew that they were to fly in B-17G #42-3158 Max. The crew rushed to the alternate B-17 only to witness that Spirit of Flak Wolf, piloted by 1Lt John J. McGarry, Jr. crashed on take-off and killing six of the crew and injuring four. Afterwards the crew wondered, if battle orders hadn't been changed, this might have happened to them." (http://www.303rdbg.com/)

The B-24 Liberator was an American heavy bomber during WWII. used by several Allied air forces and navies, and by every branch of the American armed forces during the war, attaining a distinguished war record with its operations in the Western European, Pacific, Mediterranean, and China-Burma-India Theaters. The aircraft represented here is a B-24H-1-FO, serial number 42-7687, "The Stork" serving with the USAAF, 15th AF, 451st BG, 726 BS.

An A-10 Thunderbolt II dives in on it's target. "The A-10 was designed around the GAU-8 Avenger, a rotary cannon that is the airplane's primary armament and the heaviest such cannon mounted on an aircraft. The A-10's airframe was designed for survivability, with protective measures such as 1,200 pounds of armor to enable the aircraft to continue flying after taking damage."

A-6E Intruders from VA-128 out on a bombing mission.

The Sikorsky MH-53 Pave Low series is a long-range combat search and rescue (CSAR) helicopter for the United States Air Force. The U.S. Air Force's MH-53J/M fleet was retired in September 2008 and was replaced by the CV-22B Osprey