Painting US Infantry in Normandy WW2
I've always enjoyed painting scenes from the Second World War. There is so much depth in locations, uniforms, equipment and themes. This painting depicts a automatic rifleman at the front of a patrol as they navigate the Normandy hedgerows. The allies would spend all of June and most of July stuck only a few miles off the beaches due to the ferocious defence by the Germans. I started this painting almost a year ago to the day. This is how it sat for a year. It was intended to be a quick study to practice painting hedgerows and foliage. I wanted to do another World War Two painting and this one was begging to be finished. For the US soldiers, I referenced some illustrations by Ronald Volstad. These depicted the US Army uniforms used in the European theatre of operations. Most soldiers where outfitted with the beige field jacket and brownish wool trousers seen in the illustration. I liked the tense poses the soldiers were in making it look like they knew they were walk...