En: David S. Owens: Schröder Reproduction - The Work Process

Charcoal portrait by my Masonic Brother Travis Simpkins. Travis is a 32° Scottish Rite Freemason and member of Morning Star Lodge located in Worcester, Massachusetts. The lodge was instituted in 1793 with the patriot Isaiah Thomas being the lodge's first Master. He is a freelance artist with clients throughout the United States and Europe. He currently works with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and also serves as an Art Advisor with the Massachusetts Senate. He works on projects for the Supreme Council, 33°, NMJ in Lexington, Massachusetts and his art has appeared in publications by Arturo de Hoyos, Grand Archivist & Grand Historian of the Supreme Council, 33°, SJ in Washington, D.C. His website: http://www.artcrimeillustrated.com/p/travis-simpkins.html