Beaver
I have always been interested in drawing and painting animals of all sorts.  As a child growing up, I spent a lot of time exploring the woods and keenly observed everything there near our house overlooking the Mississippi river. I was so interested in it that I probably should have become a naturalist of some sort.  Having said all that, we did not have beavers there at that time.  We did have a muskrat family that lived in a lodge they built along the stream that fed into Gray's Bay.
Drawing on newsprint. 8 x 8 inches. 1967.

Self Portrait
Watercolor on Arches paper. 6 x 8 inches. 1969.

Working Man 
I used to carry some sort of sketch pad and drawing pencils with me wherever I go.  It's been a while since I did this, but may start again as you never know when you are going to see something interesting to draw.  I drew this contour drawing of a construction worker sitting in the back of a pick up truck while in extremely slow moving traffic one evening on the way home from work.
Graphite pencil on newsprint. 8 x 10 inches. 1985.