Dear Blue Angel

Oil on canvas / 30″ x 40″  (Part of the Nevada State College Permanent Collection)

Blue Angel has been part of the landscape for many people my age who grew up in Las Vegas. This piece is about how she impressed me as child can remember when was a kid riding in the back seat of my parents car and always on the lookout for her when we would get close to the intersection of Charleston Blvd. and Fremont Street.

There are a couple of acknowledgements I would like to make. Thank you  to Bryan McCormick- a brilliant photographer for allowing me to reference his beautiful close up of the Blue Angel statue; featured in the Las Vegas Weekly in an article entitled “Bye,Blue Angel: Motel comes down, but the iconic figurehead will remain ” by Kristen Peterson . Also, there Is a reference to the Blue Fairy from the 1940 Walt Disney animated film Pinocchio.