Ray Bakerjian portfolio

Ray Bakerjian portfolio

Ray Bakerjian portfolio

Ray Bakerjian portfolio

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One of several introductory, how-to drawing videos done for my non-profit,

The W

ounded Artist Project. (link to the video)

M-4

sti

lllife

Quick watercolor sketch done tongue-in-cheek for instructional video, “H

ow to Draw the

Modern M

-4 Carbine”for The W

ounded Artist Project’s YouTube channel

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ichigan Air National Guard F-16 rolls in on a pair M

ig-29s just coming out of the clouds.

107thTactical Fighter Squadron Collection, hanging in M

ain Briefing Room

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ilLt. Col Garry Bahlingpulls up from a gunnery pass at the G

rayling Air G

unnery

Range near Grayling, Michigan

Air Force Art Collection, Pentagon (link)

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ichigan Air National Guard F-4 chases a squadron m

ate into the clouds trying

to get on his tail or 6 O

'clock position to get a m

issile lock tone from his

Sidewinder missile

Air Force Art Collection, Pentagon (link)

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107thTactical Fighter Squadron Collection, hanging in Pilo

t Break Room

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An A-7D Corsair of the 107thTFS piloted by squadron CO, LTC W

ally W

ick, flies

over Germ

any during a deployment

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ilAn A-7D Corsair of the 107thTFS comes in to drop its bomb load. Detail from a poster done for

the squadron, the original is hanging in the M

ain Briefing Room.

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ilAn A-7D Corsair of the 107thTactical Fighter Squadron, the Red Devils, flies at high altitude

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A Navigator on an A-6 Intruder, taken from a photo on the back page

of Naval Aviation News m

agazine

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ilGift to veteran Bob Stauffer on his retirement. Bob was a B-17 pilot in this unit in W

W2.

(background is from an RG Smith painting)

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Commissioned work for Fred Smith, Chairman and CEO of Federal Express

of his restored Spitfire. I sent a request to him

to do this painting in a FedEx envelope.

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Commissioned work for Fred Smith, Chairman and CEO of Federal Express

of his restored Spitfire

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air

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sh

An F-4 Phantom of the M

ichigan Air National Guard. Nose art shows a cobra

wearing a pilot’s flight helm

et and saying their squadron m

otto.

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8,

air

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Cover of Manufacturing Engineering,

Mar 89

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This is an advisory station with a pilot who will communicate

with pilots about their aircraft or runway conditions

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nPencil sketch of Bob M

cDonald, Program Director for The Foundation of American

Veterans, and his grandson at a Tiger game in 2009.

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akes a strafing pass on a G

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an airfield in 1945.

Ground crew is heading for the exits

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ver,

mark

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Mik

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helm

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Mike Fingalwas a crew chief on F-4s in the M

ichigan Air G

uard when I decorated his

flight line helm

et with his aircraft and personal philosophy

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rtNose art on an A-7D Corsair of the 107thTFS. The character is SnuffySmith from the 1940’s

comic strip and he’s holding his winning hand, the tail numbers on this aircraft. SLUF was the

unofficial nickname for the A-7: Short, Little Ugly Fellow (both aircraft and glasses are history)