Product Description

Widely regarded as the world's leading aviation artist, Robert Taylor is renowned for the sweeping panoramic scale of his air combat paintings and his remarkable precision and clarity. This book features 28 full colour reproductions of some of his most popular recent works, together with detailed discussions on the methods and techniques behind each piece by the artist. His fascinating comments are supported throughout by a wealth of colour detail and preliminary pencil sketches.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #64056 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 pages

About the Author
Robert Taylor has long been established as one of the world's leading aviation artists, enjoying unparralled demand for his original paintings and limited edition prints. He has exhibited with the Guild of Aviation Artists, the Royal Society of Marine Artists, and his one-man exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, described by the Museum as its most popular ever, was viewed by over ten million people. He lives near Bath, England. Writer Charles Walker has known and admired the artist for many years, and has written for books and magazines about his paintings.

Customer Reviews

Another Taylor cracker
These are books I can browse and linger over time and again. It is a great combination: Robert Taylor's paintings over a full A4 page (twenty-eight of these) plus pencil sketches showing the working out of his ideas, or other bits and bobs; plus smaller reproductions of `other paintings', usually with a bearing on the main painting, or details out of the main painting. You get forty-six of these! Plus, spread over the three pages that go with each painting, his musings on the painting, on the history of the aircraft or the battle, personal recollections of pilots, and other good stories.
It is all WWII, this time, with paintings of all the usual suspects, but also the Arado recce jet, TWO Mitchell B-25s, CG-4 Wacos, SBD Dauntless, Corsairs, Wildcats, Lightnings, Typhoons... and even a Superfortress.
In the Foreword it is explained, yet again, that Mr Taylor usually spends more time on researching the eventual painting, than in the actual painting of it. And it shows, I feel - the paintings come over as not only pretty wonderful, but as totally convincing, as well.