Tea Rex emerges again from the primordial gyre. In this incarnation we find him masquerading as a humble teapot in search of his mojo. Lost in a Tea House within the belly of the beast itself. Clover Field forever.

Four interior pages from the comic story of Tea Rex, by David Peters

With a carefully worked paint effect, a photograph is transformed. Here a Beech Bonanza with soaked clothes draped over the propeller drying in the setting sun after a day of rain at EAA's annual event at Oshkosh Wisconsin.

The traditionally late annual announcement that one is still present on the planet.  

Our hero is confronted with the age old dilemma as to where exactly does one pin the corsage on a first date!  Complications arise with the realization that the key to ones heart isn't always the obvious but rather sometimes the result of the machinations of minions.  A subtle push or pull that can throw opposites into a cosmic embrace that will endure thru the ages.  One can be so lucky!

Photo Illustration by David Peters © 2013

A tempest in a teapot - Living life in the vortex created when planetary re-alignments and solar winds dictate the need for change in order to survive the journey to the outer rings.

Photo Illustration by David Peters © 2013

This years commemorative poster "Mavericks In The Sky", has over 60 aircraft circling home pylon representing the last 50 years of modern air racing at Reno/Stead airfield in the Nevada desert.  A challenging endeavor to group as many aircraft in one scene and still maintain a feeling of flight and continuity with out tangents and "stick props".  This is not a single photograph, but the careful and deliberate manipulation of many photographs to create this kinetic scene.

Contributing photographers were the artist & illustrator David Peters, along with James Larsen and Don "Bucky" Dawson who provided shots of many of the earlier racers.  Most of the aircraft shown were medal winners in their classes.

This illustration was a two page feature done for an article on the venerable Navion airplane built by North American Aviation and later Ryan Aeronautical.  It ran in Air & Space Magazine in 2009

A feature illustration for Air & Space Magazine on a story about the patent battles between the Wright Brothers and Glenn Curtiss over early wing warping designs that eventually led to the aileron.

Photo Illustration by David Peter © 2000

This artwork started life as a bumper graphic for the TV show "Friday's" , a late night comedy show airing on ABC.  Ten years later, art director Jimmy Wachtel saw it and wanted to use it for CSN's album "Live It Up".  With a little lunar redo it became the art you see here.

The illustration won a Silver Medal in the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles, 1994 annual competition.