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David Smart had the artist remove the S in
his name). The "Petty Girl" was the "feminine ideal" of the American male, said Life
magazine in 1939.
The calendar and the Petty Girl were
extremely popular, and nose artists used
the images as inspiration. While some of
the nose art painters were talented-Tony
Starcer and Don Allen (see sidebar, facing
page)-the artwork could be crude. Velasco
discovered this when asked to paint Doris
Mae. First, the original rendering had the
figure completely nude. Second, it was
more a line drawing and less a finished
painting.
"I knew the pin-up original-a Varga-
so I asked to make the nose art nicer, like
the Varga. The nose art was very crude
and not likeable," Velasco said. "Everyone
liked her when it was finished but it didn't
take long for the HQ at CAF to say, 'put
her clothes on,' so I painted a polka-dotted bikini on her."
ATTENTION TO DETAIL
Rock music is blaring as we enter Velasco's
studio and warehouse outside of the historic city of Charlottesville. It's easy to spot
Velasco bent over a template he is making
for artwork for The Ruptured Duck, which he
will paint on an aluminum panel. Velasco's
long black hair drapes over his work, the
music and his hair illustrating that while he
is deeply connected with the World War II
era in his work, his heart is in the 1970s.
"I got all the way through the ROTC
stuff, was going to be a pilot, but then Van
Halen happened," Velasco said. He spent
the next 25 years trying to be a rock star.
In his studio are remnants of that period
in his life. And he is slowly working on his
private pilot certificate.
"Everybody I know has airplanes so I'm
in them all the time," he said. "I've got 16
hours [instruction] in a Cessna 172."
The Ruptured Duck template he's
working on honors the B-25B Mitchell
that was in the Doolittle Raid over Tokyo
in 1942. After the bombing, pilot Lt. Ted
W. Lawson ditched the B-25 in the sea
near Shangzhou, China. The ruptured
duck was a symbol of honorable service,
and lapel pins were awarded to honorably discharged servicemen between
1939 and 1946.
Little-known or obscure information about the aircraft of World War II,
especially in the Pacific theater, is dear to
Velasco. He's especially enamored with
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