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jastaflieger · 5 September 2008, 08:06 AM

I would have to agree with both Greg and Russ, Mark's artwork is reall very, very nice and i offer two examples here: the Gotha piece was one that Mark sent to me about 1+yr ago to include in my book project and the Spitfire piece is the cover work from Flight Into Darkness: a book of several histroical fiction tales of WWII RAF action written by Wing Cdr Tom Neal and the book is illustrated throughout by Mark, i can highly recommend this book to everyone for the great stories and the wonderful artwork by Mark P. I believe the book can be ordered via his website .
I thought that the Gotha piece shows Mark's wonderful sense of using varying shades of light to highlight details in his artwork. He also knows his subject, for example notice the light on St Paul's Cathedral and one is , at least i am, to remember that in only a couple of decades that very catheral will be seen in a immortal photo, arising from a dense cloud of smoke surrounding it after an attack by the Luftwaffe.

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jastaflieger Scout Pilot Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 344	Mark P's wonderful aviation art I would have to agree with both Greg and Russ, Mark's artwork is reall very, very nice and i offer two examples here: the Gotha piece was one that Mark sent to me about 1+yr ago to include in my book project and the Spitfire piece is the cover work from Flight Into Darkness: a book of several histroical fiction tales of WWII RAF action written by Wing Cdr Tom Neal and the book is illustrated throughout by Mark, i can highly recommend this book to everyone for the great stories and the wonderful artwork by Mark P. I believe the book can be ordered via his website . I thought that the Gotha piece shows Mark's wonderful sense of using varying shades of light to highlight details in his artwork. He also knows his subject, for example notice the light on St Paul's Cathedral and one is , at least i am, to remember that in only a couple of decades that very catheral will be seen in a immortal photo, arising from a dense cloud of smoke surrounding it after an attack by the Luftwaffe.