Tibbetts adds that he enjoys watching his subjects' faces when he shows them his drawings. Julie Andrews loves to write and draw. Whoopi Goldberg writes fairy tales. Gene Hackman sketches. Drawing faces, Tibbetts says, is a compulsion.
Faces are whole landscapes in themselves.
While Hollywood faces get top billing on Tibbetts' walls, they hold no exclusive rights. Pavarotti, Van Cliburn. Tibbetts says his current project, an encyclopedia of stage plays on film that is due out in early spring of 2001, will include almost 50 of his own line drawings of playwrights and composers. The next Hollywood star to join Tibbetts' portrait galaxy is almost a foregone concluscion. You can bet I'll be there.