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These are my most recent illustrations, which may ( or may not) appear elsewhere on the site. This is an effort to save frequent vistors the trouble of surfing the entire site to find new work. As more paintings are added, these will be moved to the various on-line galleries of aviation-art.net.

One of the biggest days of the Vietnam War was 10 May 1972, and one of the most dramatic attacks was made by VA-195 A-7E Corsair IIs. Flying from USS Kitty Hawk, Lt. Mike Ruth, in BuNo 157526, dropped 2 1,000 lb and 2 2,000 lb bombs on the Hai Duong railway bridge East-Southeast of Hanoi. 24" x 20" acrylic on masonite. $1,200 Reserved JH

"Launch The Alert Fighter!" When hostile contacts appeared on the ship radar, the alert fighter is launched regardless of sea conditions. Here, an F-4B Phantom of VF-114 is launched from U.S.S. Kitty Hawk in heavy sea state to investigate the bogie. 20" x 16" acrylic on canvas panel. $500

"Gunslinger One" is an F/A-18C of VFA-105 overhead USS Harry S Truman in the Persian Gulf. This painting was selected to hang in the National Museum of Naval Aviation in 2009. Recently returned to the artist. 24" x 18" acrylic on canvaspanel. $900

Concept painting for the cover of the forthcoming "F-22 Raptor In Action". 20" x 16" acrylic on canvas panel. $500

F/A-18D of VMFA(AW)-242 "Bats" over Iraq in 2003. 24" x 18" Acrylic on canvaspanel $800 Reserved JH

P-61A Black Widow of the 6th Night Fighter Squadron over a moonlit undercast, Saipan, November 1944. "Moonhappy" was the top-scoring P-61 of the 6th NFS, with four confirmed kills. The nose art was painted by Sgt. LeRoy Miozzi. 30" x 24" acrylic on aquabord. $1,000

Captain Joe Foss of VMF-121 Shot down 26 Japanese aircraft during 63 days of combat on Guadalcanal in 1942, and a further 3 in a later tour, becoming the first American to exceed the WWI total of Eddie Rickenbacker. Foss was awarded the Medal of Honor. His aircraft was the Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat. 18" x 24" acrylic on hardboard. $800

After reading "The Pacific", by Hugh Ambrose, I was inspired to do this painting which depicts an SBD Dauntless of Bombing Six diving on a Japanese carrier during the Battle of Midway. Midway was considered the pivitol battle in the Pacific war, and I entitled this "America Strikes Back!" 12" x 24" acrylic on canvas panel. $800

Welcome to your tour of the on-line art gallery of the illustrations of Lou Drendel. You will see a broad cross-section of work done over the past 40 years. Many are for sale, and most are original works. Each is an individual and unique piece of collectible art.