He has worked for most of the popular magazines, amongst them Time, Sports Illustrated, Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's and Golf Digest, as well as a broad selection of corporate clients.
Their son, Ted Forbes, is the creator and host of the YouTube vlog, The Art of Photography.
[3] He is well-known for his loose painterly, yet realistic style of work which, in the 1970s and 1980s, was regularly reproduced to accompany stories for McCall's, Redbook, Ladies' Home Journal and other popular women's magazines.
At that time, a number of limited edition prints were published including male and female golfers, the endangered species series and images of Native Americans among others.
Over the years, requests for large paintings necessitated that Forbes change medium from water color to oil, but his style retained its original loose, washy quality.