Photo Gallery: Art plane crashes, paints canvas at Rose Bowl
The moment of impact when a radio-controlled model A-10 military plane with a seventeen-foot wingspan, filled with paint, flew into a twenty-foot wall set up on the lawn south of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday, January 22, 2012. Artist Richard Jackson’s outdoor spectacle, Accidents in Abstract Painting Performance, drew a large crowd. The model plane was flown by Wyatt Sadler. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Plaint splatters after a radio-controlled A-10 military model plane with a seventeen-foot wingspan, filled with paint, flew into a twenty-foot wall set up on the lawn south of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday, January 22, 2012. Artist Richard Jackson’s outdoor spectacle, Accidents in Abstract Painting Performance, drew a large crowd. The model plane was flown by Wyatt Sadler. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
This radio-controlled model A-10 military plane with a seventeen-foot wingspan, filled with paint, flew into a twenty-foot wall set up on the lawn south of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday, January 22, 2012. Artist Richard Jackson’s outdoor spectacle, Accidents in Abstract Painting Performance, drew a large crowd. The model plane was flown by Wyatt Sadler. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
A large crowd takes photos after a radio-controlled model A-10 military plane with a seventeen-foot wingspan, filled with paint, flew into a twenty-foot wall set up on the lawn south of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday, January 22, 2012. Artist Richard Jackson’s outdoor spectacle, Accidents in Abstract Painting Performance, drew a large crowd. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
A radio-controlled model A-10 military plane with a seventeen-foot wingspan, filled with paint, was flown into a twenty-foot wall set up on the lawn south of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday, January 22, 2012. Artist Richard Jackson’s outdoor spectacle, Accidents in Abstract Painting Performance, drew a large crowd. The model plane was flown by Wyatt Sadler. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Onlookers take photos of a a radio-controlled model A-10 military plane with a seventeen-foot wingspan, filled with paint, that flew into a twenty-foot wall set up on the lawn south of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday, January 22, 2012. Artist Richard Jackson’s outdoor spectacle, Accidents in Abstract Painting Performance, drew a large crowd. The model plane was flown by Wyatt Sadler. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Wyatt Sadler prepares a radio-controlled model A-10 military plane with a seventeen-foot wingspan, filled with paint, that would fly into a twenty-foot wall set up on the lawn south of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday, January 22, 2012. Artist Richard Jackson’s outdoor spectacle, Accidents in Abstract Painting Performance, drew a large crowd. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
A radio-controlled model A-10 military plane with a seventeen-foot wingspan, filled with paint, flew into a twenty-foot wall set up on the lawn south of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday, January 22, 2012. Artist Richard Jackson’s outdoor spectacle, Accidents in Abstract Painting Performance, drew a large crowd. The model plane was flown by Wyatt Sadler. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Moments after impact and surrounded by onlookers, model airplane operator Wyatt Sadler is congratulated by his girlfriend Carrie Nibarger outside the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday, January 22, 2012. Artist Richard Jackson’s outdoor spectacle, Accidents in Abstract Painting Performance, drew a large crowd. Sadler operated the radio-controlled model A-10 military plane with a seventeen-foot wingspan, filled with paint, that flew into a twenty-foot wall set up on the lawn south of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)