While working on a portrait of Plano mayor John Muns, a man walked into Gene Dillard's art gallery, Rail Station Studios, and began moseying around.
After the man left, Dillard realized he took with him his laptop.
Dillard quickly called the police and then immediately grabbed a pen and got right to work.
Dillard sketched an outline of the thief, and then put oil to canvas and painted a portrait of him, all from memory! Dillard told CBS, "You sort of train yourself to be observant. It's a way of capturing the personality and the character of the person"
Dillard gave the portrait to the police, who told him "they'd never seen anything that detailed presented as a sketch of a perpetrator."
Now, Dillard is just curious to see how well he did.
"It would be interesting if the fellow is caught," he said. "To see if I nailed the likeness."
And in case the Plano police do catch the thief, Dillard has one request: "Maybe let him know – his portrait is ready."
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