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My Father's Flight Simulator

Paul Domingue

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My love of aviation came from my father. He developed his passion for aviation while watching the awesome displays of aerial combat in the skies over England, North Africa, Sicily and Italy. When the war in Europe ended and his regiment was scheduled to go home he transferred to the RCAF in the hope of going to the Pacific. That didn't happen but he stayed in service with the air force until 1950.

Prior to the development of personal computers my father had his own simulator, his imagination, canvas and paint. He was an artist supporting the family working as a commercial artist and when home would spend hours in his studio painting with oils. He primarily painted seascapes but occasionally he would fly through his art.

I recently found some of his aircraft paintings that were in storage and thought I would share some of these images. He left quite a few works of art that are kept by my siblings as well.

I know that if he were alive today he would just love FS.

Water colors
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(unfortunately damaged)
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Oils
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I especially like the clipper.
All through the night the south-west wind hurled us out into the Atlantic. From aloft came the great roaring sound that I heard for the first time, and perhaps will never hear again, of strong winds in the rigging of a good ship.
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Eric Newby, The Last Grain Race

And that's a late-mark Spitfire!! :cool:
 
Paul, thank you so much for sharing those genuine works of art. You late father was indeed very talented! Like Tom, I like the tall ship the most, although they are all just sterling.
 
No big fan of the Tiger Moth (s-l-o-w), but that painting has an appealing depth to it.
 
That twin engine at the top, is that a piper or something....also great to see a different sim..


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Amazing artist! Thanks for sharing, Paul. I enjoyed the first one myself. Did he ever paint submarines?

When I was a kid, dad would get these beautiful calendars that had paintings of planes, just like these, on them. I would cut out the artwork and tack them up in my room after the month was done. These remind me of those. I wonder if your dad did calendars as well? It might be I had some of his artwork hanging in my room when I was a kid.
 
lionheart said:
Amazing artist! Thanks for sharing, Paul. I enjoyed the first one myself. Did he ever paint submarines?

When I was a kid, dad would get these beautiful calendars that had paintings of planes, just like these, on them. I would cut out the artwork and tack them up in my room after the month was done. These remind me of those. I wonder if your dad did calendars as well? It might be I had some of his artwork hanging in my room when I was a kid.
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That is possible, I have a calendar with aircraft art that was with my dad's art work but I have not reviewed it. I do know that he did some scenes of the lunar landing for a calendar.
From the late 1950s through the 60s if you bought any Gillette shaving products you were looking at his art work on the packaging and cans of shaving cream.
 
Beautiful Paul, just beautiful! My passion comes from my grandfather, he used to model warbirds out of aluminium, I still have a couple here with me. Wish I had the chance to know him before he passed.
 
Paul Domingue said:
From the late 1950s through the 60s if you bought any Gillette shaving products you were looking at his art work on the packaging and cans of shaving cream.
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Way before my time, but dang, that's cool.

My uncle is a graphic designer, but his art (until now) was never as visible as your father's.
 
Paul Domingue said:
Thank you, I did not know this. Now I know what my father's reference for the painting was.
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What I find a bit odd is that he's pick a long decommisioned submarine for the painting. Another personal connection maybe?
 
Poor thing was only 5 years old when scrapped. What a pity! :(
 
Heretic said:
What I find a bit odd is that he's pick a long decommisioned submarine for the painting. Another personal connection maybe?
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It may very well be that he had an acquaintance connected to that sub. I only have a print of the painting. I don't know where the original is. I remember a painting of the SS Manhattan in arctic ice that he made for the captain after she sailed on her record Northwest Passage. There are quite a few of his paintings with an aviation theme that were hanging in a restaurant in the Boston area. The restaurant has long been closed and the paintings considered lost.

Art runs in the family. My uncle Maurice Domingue, dad's senior brother by two years, was a prolific painter. Many of his works are to be found on the internet for sale as prints.
For those who can read French here is a link.
http://www.gallery2000.ca/artiste.php?Nom=Domingue&Prenom=Maurice
 
n4gix said:
Poor thing was only 5 years old when scrapped. What a pity! :(
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The fate of prototypes.

Paul Domingue said:
It may very well be that he had an acquaintance connected to that sub. I only have a print of the painting. I don't know where the original is. I remember a painting of the SS Manhattan in arctic ice that he made for the captain after she sailed on her record Northwest Passage. There are quite a few of his paintings with an aviation theme that were hanging in a restaurant in the Boston area. The restaurant has long been closed and the paintings considered lost.

Art runs in the family. My uncle Maurice Domingue, dad's senior brother by two years, was a prolific painter. Many of his works are to be found on the internet for sale as prints.
For those who can read French here is a link.
http://www.gallery2000.ca/artiste.php?Nom=Domingue&Prenom=Maurice
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In case you feel like the oddball in the family for not painting, look at the bright side: Virtual artistry is much more cheaper than having to buy all the canvas, paints and brushes. :D
 
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