USING THE ARTISTIC LICENSE - How Aviation Art is Altered from Reality, and Why!

[@CaliforniaFly]

You cracked me up with your FAA issued Artistic License! Your art is beautiful. I remember all the box top art of the 60's and 70's. I would be up till midnight on weekends working on these kits as a kid. Thanks for your humor.

[@ryansta]

My old school exercise book covers had lots of Artistic license then, they were usually full of WW2 Planes shooting each other or dropping bombs, even drew in the stream of bullets and bombs falling ( inc. explosions ). I also learned at this point in life - not everyone ( Teachers ) is an Art fan and appreciates graphic action scenes and stickmen warfare.

[@scottfw7169]

Hehe! For me it was the last 5 to 10 pages in spiral notebooks where space and military action scenes, as well as some railroad equipment, got penciled. Hey man, gotta do something productive with the stresses from mass production education & having to interact with human beings. 😁

[@maxsmodels]

Another great one Mike and thanks for the shoutout. I have to admit the world the artists create via their license is so much more interesting than the real one.

[@celebratingaviationwithmik9782]

Well said, thanks Max!

[@dennismason3740]

Your thumbnail is hilarious. Reminds me of Rocky and Bullwinkle and gang (Jay Ward).

[@johnziegelbauer4999]

Roger Ramjet

[@dennismason3740]

@@johnziegelbauer4999 - oddly enough we didn't get Roger Ramjet in L.A. t.v. so I don't know the show. Pause. I just checked it out in YT. I am a ruthless critic of media and yes, I can do better. Mike was doing an homage to Jay Ward's masterpiece.

[@mcmdrpiffle447]

You had me until almost 6 minutes in.... I actually paused at 2 minutes and Google searched FAA issued 'artistic license' If I was a juicy brook trout? I'd be all fried up in the pan already... Brilliant Mike

[@valblome4913]

It cracked me up when you started citing the "FAARs." Great video! I'm reminded of when I was doodling 737s in the margins of school notbooks and fretting about getting the correct number of windows. At that scale, literally no one was going to appreciate whether or not there were enough pencil dots to make a 900 model.

[@GustavoMonasterio]

Artistic license is part of art since the stone age. So, live with it and use it! Make the reality look nicer! Keep up the good work Mike![

[@Triple_J.1]

Ohh, I always wondered how all the stick figures on the wall got their spears into the mammoth when he was top left and out of range.

[@n176ldesperanza7]

Mike--One of your best. Well done!

[@RyeOnHam]

Saw the mural at Edwards two? years ago. Was attending a friend's retirement there.

[@johnplaninac9980]

The art work is amazing. And your team has done an amazing job putting together this video. Great work.

[@celebratingaviationwithmik9782]

On behalf of the entire Production Team, many thanks!

[@robertphillips2983]

Awesome, those cool paintings add a romantic element that just transcends a normal photograph......Thank you!!

[@claycountybrian5645]

👋🤠Greetings from Missouri ! @14:30 And all that with the prop feathered on the right engine on the DC-1 🙂 Thanks again, Mr. Machat ! 663👍 ✌

[@glennweaver3014]

Excellent subject matter Mike. Artistic license plays an important role in not only the creation of the art by the artist, but also in the appreciation of the art by the viewer. You gave some very good examples of its use in this top-notch video. As always, thanks.

[@chuck9987]

Great video, loved the tongue-in-cheek moments. Even photographs "lie". We live in a 3 dimensional world and almost all photographs represent a 2d abstraction of that 3d world. I have no issues with an artist taking liberties to make a point. Particularly when there is an emotional or inspirational point to be made.

[@neilhaas]

I enjoyed this video very nice interesting nice aircraft airplanes. Love Aviation. ❤😊🎉🤩☺️

[@celebratingaviationwithmik9782]

Many thanks!

[@terrylambert8149]

On lots of X-15 photos you see a white rectange on the bottom of the fuselage, I thought it was painted on but it really was frost formed where the LOX tank was.

[@paulkile9998]

Another great video, Mike! That last image you showed imnediately brought to mind one of my favorite cartoons when I was a kid...Roger Ramjet!!

[@georgegennuso]

Mike, you forgot to tell them that there is also a painting of you in a sailplane over Tahipi on that Edwards Flight Test Museum mural.

[@celebratingaviationwithmik9782]

Good point, thanks George!

[@Chrizzletrizz]

Thank you for sharing so much with us Mike! Happy landings :)

[@dougmasters4579]

Great video & great painting of the Thunderchief! What a plane that was.

[@jamesmcguire5312]

I really enjoyed seeing your work.

[@DeereX748]

Our aviation museum has an even earlier F-105B than the one you show at 3:46 in the video. The tail number is 54-0107 (shown as 40107 on the tail) and as FH-107 on the nose under the cockpit. It was assigned to the ARDC (Air Research and Development Command) at Edwards AFB. It is the first production F-105B, the second oldest and one of 105 known surviving complete F-105 airframes. The artwork is magnificent; my favorite is the X-15 with the F104 chase.

[@707liner8]

I think you're missing an important element - whilst artistic licence is totally permitted, it takes an artist to think of how the scene 'could' look rather than how it 'does' or 'did' look, and then bring it so vividly to life. I'm no artist but am always amazed at how people like yourself and the artists you mention in the video conjure these images up in your heads and make them real.

[@scottfw7169]

That is a good point.

[@jakejacobs7584]

History with humor, I love it!! Great work as usual.

[@donaldstanfield8862]

Thank you for taking time to share your life and stories with us!

[@dennismason3740]

Dear Mike, sir: I would love to see you do a vid of painting on real paper with real paint. The kids wouldn't believe it unless they were raised on Bob Ross. Just a rough painting from pencil on would make a surprising vid. The rougher the better.

[@curtisr8179]

I was stationed at Edwards 78-82 and had some of the best times of my life ! Watching the space shuttles landing, B-1 A prototype etc ,your art is fantastic especially of Edwards area .Brings back some good memories..... keep renewing that artistic license, it's sure working for you ! From one old air force vet .....Thank you

[@celebratingaviationwithmik9782]

Appreciate the comment, thanks!

[@rieger.design]

a pleasure to watch and learn. As always

[@robstanton9215]

Always an enjoyable ride with you Mike. I like how you incorporated what appeared to be our beloved Blanik.

[@mouldy9466]

Any plans on making videos about the mother of all artistic liberties of aviation art, fictional aircraft designs (either from movies or video games)?

[@stephenwest8898]

What a fabulous video So enjoyably. Thanks Mike.

[@celebratingaviationwithmik9782]

Many thanks!

[@colinritchie1757]

Wonderful, as someone who can't draw a straight line with a ruler , these images are breath-taking - thanks for a quick peak behind the scenes

[@djlondon7956]

Great video Mike. Your video, narration, art and the whole channel are so enjoyable, a real treat and entertainment.

[@maximilliancunningham6091]

Thanks Mike, always terrific content.

[@davidb6576]

I really appreciated the video, although now that I know more about the "artistic license" on the tops of model boxes I feel like I should have extended the wings on the Connie model I made!

[@HamiltonStandard]

loved it! thank you!

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

FWIW: The 'art style' of the thumbnail image for this video reminds me of something. I _THINK_ it is from the *BULLWINKLE & ROCKY* cartoons of the very late 1950s and early 1960s. MAYBE episodes involving _Boris Badanov, Natasha Fatale,_ and _Fearless Leader,_ but I cannot remember for sure.

[@MarceloTrindade1]

Great vídeo, as usual! I think the paintings usually depict airplanes flying or taking off. In the case of the TWA's 707, probably the idea was to show a take off and the artistic license was not used for the position of the airplane, but for the flaps configuration and/or the AoA. The Roger Ramjet's X15 picture is perfect! The only license needed was to exchange the wingtips red and green lights... 😀 Anyways, your art is fantastic! Congratulations for the paintings in the museums!

[@jetsons101]

Hmmmm The image at 3:06 really looks like it was taken over LA "San Pedro" Harbor. Will have to finish vid after work... Thanks ahead of time...............

[@newbymick1]

Enjoyed this episode. You bet I did. I make model airplanes and most of them have a bit of artistic license in them because, to be honest, to get to realism you have to get down so small it might as well not exist.

[@citibear57]

Your works are absolutely incredible. If I was to paint an aircraft in flight it would probably look like that awful X-15 near the end. No, most likely worse. For someone who was a draftsperson (as we were called in the day) my artistic ability was limited to lines drawn on paper. Perspectives, painting, embellishments, etc. were foreign to me. Even though I built many model airplanes, ships, and cars, many of them went unpainted because I feared that I would ruin them. I admired your works (and the others) on the boxes and elsewhere, as it was fascinating and so well done. I am sure as a young kid I already knew that 'artistic licence' was at play. Love your humor as well. Much respect to you, Mike Machat! 👍

[@SMAZVidoes]

Fantastic episode. One of your best. Thanks I learnt a lot.

[@celebratingaviationwithmik9782]

Many thanks!

[@roderickcampbell2105]

A really brilliant post/video. The humor was great. The art makes me want to start a museum. But it looks like they have good homes. May they always. I especially like the cartoon X-15. I was fascinated by the X-15 as I know many are. The cartoon brings the back youthful thoughts that those machines conjured up.

[@celebratingaviationwithmik9782]

Appreciate the comment, thanks!

[@ejharrop1416]

Thank you Mike. Thoroughly enjoyed another of your videos. I admire your skill and creative talent. Take care and ‘model on’. Cheers

[@jefferyrichards3165]

👍Greetings Mr. Machat, i noticed at 4:18 the F-105 on the left does not have national insignia on the upper left wing? what gives? All the best, cheers.

[@philipoakley2360]

Ya had me there with your license and the first FAA reg…

[@n6mz]

10:15 print 402/850 is hanging on the wall just to my left.

[@erbman89b]

Mike, another very enjoyable video. I find it odd that your Artistic License bears a striking resemblance to my altitude chamber training card...

[@celebratingaviationwithmik9782]

Busted!

[@9HighFlyer9]

The plane is landing on the departure end. Look how many runway edge lights are behind the aircraft. The painting's perspective is geographically correct. The TWA pilot is just making a really long landing, into the water.

[@DavidGirling]

At 1:48 could the plane be about to do a go-around after missing touch down? In which case no problem with the image because it is about to pull up rather than land.

[@aramboodakian9554]

As always love your stuff! I’m sure there is a rigorous approval process by the authorities to obtain your Artistic License

[@drawn2myattention641]

“I don’t tell the truth. I tell what ought to be the truth, and if that is evil, then let me be punished for it.” Blanche Dubois, from A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams.

[@scottfw7169]

A bit of that about the Northrop space plane returning to Earth could be modified in to a title for something, "Injak's Strange World". Hmm ... if that were the novel title, what might the story be ...? 🤔

[@pcbondart]

Hey, enjoyed this, I was in the Air Force Art Program!

[@pcbondart]

loved the rides i got on cool planes, KC 135 and A37 B

[@davidryall-flanders6353]

G'day Mike, I vaguely remember an Airfix model box top portraying a Bristol Beaufighter dropping it's torpedo from what seems to be about 10,000 feet while a Bf 109 fires from within throwing distance off it's six. Mind you this could be the result of a youthful memory clouded by age and bad decisions!😂

[@raynus1160]

Ha! That was great Mike - good stuff.

[@gregorydahl]

At 7 :12 the right horizontal stabilizer fin appears too long .

[@johnthompson7420]

thanks for clearing this up. i thought roger ramjet was a documentary.

[@MMitchellMarmel]

Roger Ramjet called... ;-)

[@villiamo3861]

Superb vid - thanks!

[@RogueBeatsARG]

The airforce had an Art Program? interesting

[@badmoon5249]

Dry humor. I love it.

[@drrocketman7794]

1:11 Taking a picture of an airplane after dark

[@jeffbybee5207]

What were the hidden images on the flight test mural

[@celebratingaviationwithmik9782]

There are twelve scenes from the iconic 1956 Warner Brothers movie "Toward the Unknown" that was filmed on location at Edwards. Thanks for watching!

[@dennismason3740]

Mural is epic. Santa Monica benefits and the rent is insane.

[@ClausB252]

The math problem needs one more detail: the rotor hub is 9 feet above the skids. Half the rotor diameter, 17.5 feet, times the sine of 30 degrees, 0.5, is less than 9 feet. So the rotor tips are about one foot above ground. Jack did the math!

[@Triple_J.1]

Its also tilted, there's your foot.

[@danf321]

Hopefully the SM Museum of Flying will remain open even after the planned closure of the Santa Monica Airport in 2028.

[@celebratingaviationwithmik9782]

That is the current plan. The City of Santa Monica wants to keep the Museum for tourism, and to tell people how historic and special the airport was! Thanks for watching.

[@HootOwl513]

Wow. I didn't know they existed. [0:30] I thought it was a figure of speech. I'll bet Gen Franco wanted to suspend Salvador Dali's Artistic License. OBTW -- Something wrong with the pic at frame [17:08] -- Oh yeah, the X-15 wasn't white...

[@Southwest_923WR]

Wow, and I always thought that was just a meaningless term WE( I myself doesn't my life doing aircraft art, years ago!👍🏿) would use just in convo about a picture! Had no clue it,was about ACTUAL LICENSE! So I assume since I never had one, I broke some ARTISTIC LAWS on done of my art!?!🤷🏿‍♂😁

[@joeschenk8400]

Great episode...but I am afraid that your Artist License is probably a fake, just like the Rolex I bought on the street the other day! The license might have worked in the Great Escape but today it needs a hologram🤣

[@scottwhitmire6613]

Steve Moore Lockheed artist Pentagon F-117. " HAY STEVE, we want the pilot to be real small" Governmental Artistic License. 🇺🇸

[@celebratingaviationwithmik9782]

Love it!

[@marchellochiovelli7259]

Well that explains our news media outlets and the crap they "paint"

[@bat2293]

The image at the very end of the presentation is incorrect. It is _not_ an X-15. It is obvious, to even the casual observer, that it is a North American F-100.

[@joeschenk8400]

Though I love the F-100, the plane is a obviously the XF 91 and very well done too!🤣

[@jetsons101]

I use Artistic License every day while at work.............

[@TheFissionchips]

NASA's freemasons certainly took 'artistic license' to the extreme when hoaxing the Apollo missions; perhaps they should have gone for physics based realism instead and photographers like myself wouldn't have noticed the scam so easily.

[@alostbaron781]

A moon landing denier? On an aviation channel? How?

[@TheFissionchips]

@@alostbaron781 aerodynamics has nothing to do with bodies moving in a vacuum. The onus is on NASA and the other masonic 'space theater companies' to PROVE they did what they claim. The photographic and physical evidence says otherwise. I bet you believe in the easter Bunny too and that aviation fuel melts steel buildings. The natural position of everyone should be to deny any claim made by any agency funded by the FED and run by freemasons. Show me an actonaut jumping 12 feet off of the surface of the moon lmao. Bodies moving in zero gravity and atmosphere dont move in slow motion like they are in WATER. derp derp.

[@bobjove6511]

Fantastic

[@celebratingaviationwithmik9782]

Thank you! Cheers!