Saturday, November 30, 2013

Camouflage Artist | Douglas D. Ellington

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US Navy camoufleurs in model-making room (1918) In 2011 , in Ship Shape: A Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook , we published a 1918 US governm...
Friday, November 29, 2013

Camouflage Artist | Manley Kercheval Nash

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We've been trying to find information about an American artist named Manley Kercheval Nash , pictured above c1918, when he was workin...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Camouflage Artist | Gordon Stevenson

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Model Painting Room (c1918) Above is a wonderful photograph of US Navy camouflage artists during World War I. It was initially publish...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Aerial Photography and WWI Camouflage

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The following text is a news article issued by the US Signal Corps, published as "War News" in American Photography Vol 12 (191...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

US Women's Camouflage Corps

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Above Photograph of members of the Women's Camouflage Corps applying disruptive (or dazzle) camouflage to an ambulance (c1918). ••• ...
Saturday, November 2, 2013

More Horse Camouflage

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Horse puzzle and solution In earlier posts , we've featured camouflaged horses , notably battlefield listening posts in the form of ...
Friday, November 1, 2013

French Horse Camouflaged With Paint

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French soldiers painting a horse (1917) In the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday, June 24, 1917, there was a lengthy article on World ...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

French Camouflage and Criminals

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WWI French camoufleurs wearing hooded cagoule outfits In an earlier post , we reproduced various images of French camoufleurs dressed in...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Camouflage Sheet Music Covers

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Sheet music illustration | Albert Barbelle (1919) Thanks to camouflage scholar Claudia Covert at the Fleet Library at the Rhode Island...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Ship Camouflage | SS Matilda Weems

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buy online buy online Above Two views of a World War I dazzle-camouflaged ship, the SS Matilda Weems , as photographed on 23 August...
Friday, October 11, 2013

WWI Ship Camouflaged as Island

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Philip Little (c1917), battleship disguised as island We've discovered something rather odd. It's an unusual painting in the co...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Encountering Two Dazzled Ships WWI

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WWI dazzle camouflage (c1918) It is always interesting to hear from UK ship modeler Jim Baumann who sends us links to amazing World War...
Friday, October 4, 2013

WWI Dazzle-Painted Cafe Buses

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Camouflaged British café buses (1933) Years ago, we ran across a news photograph (above), with a note explaining that, after World War I...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Dazzle Camouflage Film Trailer

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Author and designer Roy R. Behrens is interviewed in a new trailer (just posted) of Jonnie Morris' upcoming documentary on RAZZLE DAZ...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Same Camouflage on Two Ships

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Two dazzle-painted US ships (c1918) with the same camouflage When dazzle ship camouflage was first adopted by the British Royal Navy in...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Behrens Camouflage Lecture at UNLV

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UNLV lecture on Monday, September 16, 2013 at 7:00 pm Roy R. Behrens , Professor of Art (graphic design) and Distinguished Scholar at ...