Tony Lavoie, the Stages Element Manager, of NASA's Space Launch System recently retired. As someone who has enjoyed working with him and who wanted to honor his contribution to the Program and NASA, I created this painting for him. The painting includes the Chandra X-ray Observatory which he worked on. As well as the Critical Design Review certificate for the Core Stage and an image of the Space Launch System. He also happens to be a Boston Red Sox so I added the baseball and hat.
Here is the initial set-up. Not quite right...
Try number 20-something...
Much better!
The brown behind the rocket is just a prop to keep the rocket paper model standing up.
End of first session.
Starting to get there. But how did I let the edge of the certificate be in-line with the edge of the rocket- got to fix that.
Well other than a crooked core stage it's getting closer.
A good friend of mine and fellow artist, S. Renee Prasil, came over and we only came up with 13 things to take it to the next level. Thanks Renee!
Special thanks to Chad Bryant who put together the paper model of the Space launch System.
