The Beaver

 Had to draw Beaver if I drew Wally!

Wally

Wally from Leave it to Beaver

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Elizabeth Montgomery

 Always loved Elizabeth on Bewitched.   Chose this picture for the drama it had.  

The Five

 Had a whim to draw Jessie Watters and Greg Gutfield on the Fox Tv show The Five.   Sent in and they showed on air.  Was a thrill to be mentioned on national tv to 3.6 millions viewers!  

Elvis

Had to do one of our hometown Elvis.

John Wayne

Finished my John Wayne portrait in pencil.  This is the second one I’ve done of him and he is a joy to draw.  So many great movie moments come to mind and I can hear his voice as I look at him.  Hope you enjoy!

Tom Cruise

Pencil portrait of Tom Cruise 11x14.  Enjoyed working on this one.   Hope you enjoy. Looking forward to Top Gun 2.  Hope he sees his portrait here.

Granny

Had to draw Granny after Jed!  11x14. Irene Ryan was 59 when she played the role of Granny during the Beverly Hillbillies.

Jed Clampett

Well Doggie!! Jed Clampett.   Buddy Epsen was a dancer originally  and was the Tin Man for 10 days in the Wizard of Oz till he became very sick from the aluminum dust and almost died.  But will always be known as the poor mountaineer who barely kept his family fed.  Hope you enjoy my latest pencil.

Floyd the barber

Hope you enjoy this pencil of Floyd the barber!   He was such a beloved simpleton!   Just love the show so much because it brings back that simple time before all the awful things going on now.  Miss the days before social media.

Otis

I can’t get into an Otis elevator and not think of this guy.  He really was a great actor on Andy Griffith and I loved all the laughs he brought to the show.  No one could play a nice lovable drunk like Otis Campbell.   I think I’m done with this one and hope you enjoy.  11x14 pencil

Alright alright alright

Loved working on Matthew.  He is a great guy and actor!

John Wayne

Always enjoyed watching him as a kid,  great actor and man.  Pastelmatt 11x14.

Sam Elliott

Done on Pastelmatt,  starting to like this paper for pencil.   Always enjoy watching Sam.  Pencil 11x14.

Jessie Watters and Greg Gutfeld

Jessie and Greg make me laugh on FOX and enjoy a little humor in this world we live in now.  Just on a whim decided to do their portrait and maybe sent in to the show.  Pencil

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Finished Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid from the Hole in the Wall gang! The jump into into the river scene will always be my favorite where Paul Newman laughs at Robert Redford for saying he can’t swim.

Clint Eastwood

One of my favorite actors.  Really enjoyed watching him growing up.  These are pencil on 11x14 Stonehenge.   Did this picture twice,  sold the first one

Elon Musk

Really admire Elon and am always amazed at his drive and passion to change the world.

Jenna in pencil

Portrait of Jenna my middle daughter in pencil and charcoal 11x14.  Jenna was valedictorian of her class this year,won an art contest for the school which puts her painting on the Shelby County school calendar for this next year.  She also won a school essay contest which earned her a lunch with an author from a book her class read and the school art contest to have her drawing on T-Shirts that the whole school wore on the end of year picnic.  She is a very talented piano player and loves to read.

This was the first of three pencil portraits I tried of each of my daughters.  I used Arches paper and was very pleased with the results.  It is a very forgiving paper and took a lot of abuse.  I've only used three of the sheets so far and I think there are 40 in the binding, so I need to get busy.

I did this picture free hand after using the grid methods for so long.  I always felt like I was cheating using the grid method and found it to be very tedious and frustrating.  I took a class by Daniel Green, a very well know portrait artist a few years ago and was fascinated by how he could capture a likeness using proportions and angles.  I began trying it out and really liked the results.  I found it much easier to get a likeness by just drawing rather than looking for shortcuts to drawing.  I even used to use a projector many years ago but it always had a rather odd look to it in the end and put it away in the attic about 10 years ago!

Portrait of Megan

16x20 pencil charcoal on Arches paper: Portrait of my oldest daughter Megan. She loves wolves and always wears the necklace seen in the picture. All of my daughters are so talented and beautiful!