Terry Hagen works on a portrait of Army Veteran Eileen Moore during a veterans portrait session at the Butler Art Center recently. The group is painting and drawing portraits of different area veterans each session for an art show later this year on Veterans Day. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle

The back of the Art Center at 344 S. Main St. was quiet except for the brush of charcoal across paper or a quiet word from one of the five artists to another.

The portrait group was meeting again this Wednesday afternoon as it has for more than 30 years.

The subject of their intense scrutiny was Army veteran and Robin’s Home founder and director Mary Chitwood, who was posing for her portrait.

Chitwood had brought along Brooke Mougey, a resident of the home for homeless, unstably housed and low-income female veterans and their children, during Chitwood’s two-hour session with the portrait artists.

Each of the artists was sketching Chitwood in his own medium whether charcoal, acrylic or pastels.

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