I have loved things that fly since early childhood. I have no idea how that gets into your blood, but once there you are infected for life. I haven't flown for years but I can't drive past a small airport without feeling a pang.
I call this picture evening, and it was done in Fractal Sketcher on a 386 laptop using a mouse as my sketching tool. It is supposed to look like a pencil drawing on a toothy paper. When printed it does look pretty much like I wish I could draw on real paper with a real pencil.
It is the final flight of the evening, that time when the sun has already set on the ground, but you get a last glimps from the air, and your friends see the last flash of sunlight on your wings as you throttle back and make your way into the pattern.
Another enduring passion has been bicycling. When I was a kid I took my first long ride on a bike in the late evening. I got to the end of the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, and I was amazed. That was a trip that took a car full of adults a half a day and required picnic baskets. I was in big trouble when I got home. The next night I got to the end of the Concourse and turned left, went down a huge hill and made it to Van Cortland Park. Climbing the hill was a killer chore and I really caught it when I got home. The next night I made it to Yonkers. I left city limits behind and I was never the same again. My parents got used to it.
This picture is called "A Dream of Wings" and is a fantasy I concocted when I first got Fractal Painter. I used a Wacom Tablet, and found the stylus much easier to use than a mouse.
Today I use MetaCreations Painter 6, the direct descendant of Fractal Painter and I still have the same Wacom Tablet.