Wayne Art

Here are a couple of Wayne's favorite subjects, actors John Wayne and Henry Fonda. The original prints are larger, of course. Wayne does all the detail with ballpoint or felt tip pens and then adds water color for color work. His originals show amazing detail.

These little digital images don't do justice to the amazing detail in these two portrait copies. I've seen the original drawings and they are great. Wayne finds prints in magazines or books and uses a process he developed to enlarge them to the size he wants. He then traces enough of the image to get the proportions right and fills in the details by hand. He selects the color of the drawing board to help produce the overall effect he wants.

Two more examples of famous men. The full size drawing of Einstein, from which this digital image was made, shows the wrinkled old-man's skin on his hands. It looks much like the wrinkled skin on mine. I don't think this small image is going to show that. This portrait of Lincoln is not one of the best, but it is still good.

Wayne's maternal grandfather was nicknamed "Skipper." Wayne made this print by copying an old photograph. The other print was copied from a picture of Stephen Hawking.

The chess scene was copied from the image on the back of a movie record case. It was the story of Bobby Fischer.

Have one of your favorite old (or new) family photographs made into a work of art. Just contact me at the email address given at the bottom of the page and I'll help work out the details with Wayne.