National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame

I indicated in a previous post that the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in Chicago changed their plans for the latest cover of their official publication, Red, White and Green. Due to the timing of this change I ended up creating the image in Photoshop, using high resolution photography provided by Team USA Basketball to honor Jerry Colangelo for his contribution to the teams success in winning the Olympic Gold medal for basketball. I hope to get back to Chicago soon and see some of the new exhibits at the museum.

Air and Space hall of fame

Saturday night October 25th at the San Diego Air and Space Museum their annual induction into the International Aviation Hall of Fame took place. I completed the two paintings which I indicted in a previous post of Brigadier General Robert Cardenas, USAF ret. and Astronaut Scott Carpenter, who was one of the original seven astronauts of NASA. Some changes have taken place for next year that will allow my fellow hall of fame artist, Stan Stokes (http://www.stanstokesart.com) and I to have a more hands on approach in the timing and the research for the paintings. I was able to speak to the two inductees I did and get them to autograph 8" x 10" copies of their respective paintings. It also gave me an opportunity to personally thank them for their service and contribution to our great country and world community as well. Now onto the next of my hall of fame clients, the San Diego Hall of Champions Sports Musem and Washington University, St. Louis Athletic Hall of Fame, with this years inductions of new members.