I've always loved to draw. When I was 9 I sat down to watch my Grandfather, "Paw Paw", play dominoes. I started to draw a profile in pencil on school paper of Paw Paw. Nobody believed I did it, so I drew everyone in the family.
Many years later I did an engagement "pencil sketch" of my wife to be, Donna. I could barely afford the paper the portrait was drawn on. That portrait has a place of importance, right behind my easels, in my Bentwater Studio, today.

I didn't draw or paint again for almost 32 years. I spent those years doing what a man's supposed to do...I went out every day and tried to make a living. I've been very lucky to work as an Account Executive for the largest apparel manufacturer in the world for the last 26 years. My work schedule allows me to spend the 3 hours a night 2 to 3 nights a week, and most weekends, doing what I love most...painting.

I've been lucky enough to learn from some of the best Artists around, Tommy Fitzpatrick, Tina Szojko, Dan Thompson and Geoffrey Laurence at Andreeva Portrait Academy in Sante Fe, New Mexico.

I hope you enjoy my paintings as much as I enjoyed painting them.

Thanks,
Bob Shepherd