"Over the Trenches" as cover art I took an early interest in World War One aviation, inspired by 50th anniversary and again by 100th anniversary remembrances. For the 50th, Eddie Rickenbacker was still alive and Snoopy was busy chasing the Red Baron. In 2017, my wife Marella and I even visited some of the memorials in France and Belgium in 2017. My painting “Eyes Above the Trenches” acknowledges the crucial role of photo reconnaissance during that war. The painting depicts th

For Christmas, just after I’d turned 12 years old, I got a set of high-quality Permanent Pigments oil paints. Those included primary and secondary colors, plus white and black. My first lessons in oil painting came from the enclosed pamphlet on learning to paint with oil colors and the full-color Permanent Pigments color mixing guide. The next day, I got ready to try out my new paints. A postcard of a round tower in Ireland provided a worthy subject. I squeezed out dabs of pa

A portrait painting by Don Meadows of a young man wearing glasses and a knit hat.