When they where young...

Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July 24, 1969) is an American singer, actress, dancer and producer.

Retro girl 2

Retro girl...

50's girl..

something a little different...

Thirsty work....

All the drawing this week is enough to make anyone thirsty....

Agnes Moorehead..

Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress whose six-decade career included work in radio, stage, film, and television.

Maisie Williams..

Margaret Constance "Maisie" Williams is an English actress. She made her professional acting debut as Arya Stark of Winterfell in the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones in 2011

Elizabeth Montgomery..

Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery was an American film, stage, and television actress whose career spanned five decades. She is best remembered for her role as Samantha Stephens on the television series Bewitched.

Francoise Dorleac..

Françoise Dorléac was a French actress. She was the daughter of screen actor Maurice Dorléac and Renée Simonot, and the elder sister of Catherine Deneuve.

Jean Seberg..

Jean Dorothy Seberg was an American actress who lived half her life in France. She appeared in 34 films in Hollywood and in Europe

Simone Signoret..

Simone Signoret was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France's greatest film stars. She became the second French person to win an Academy Award, for her role in Room at the Top .

Jeanne Moreau..

Jeanne Moreau  23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960), the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for Viva Maria! (1965), and the César Award for Best Actress for The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea (1992). She was also the recipient of several lifetime awards, including a BAFTA Fellowship in 1996.

Danielle Darrieux..

Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux was a French actress of stage, television and film, as well as a singer and dancer. Beginning in 1931, she appeared in more than 110 films.

Sylvie Vartan...

Although actor/pop singer Sylvie Vartan is Bulgarian, she would eventually receive recognition from the French, usually singing entirely in the language of her adopted homeland. 

Aretha Franklin..

Aretha Franklin is one of the giants of soul music, and indeed of American pop as a whole. More than any other performer, she epitomizes soul at its most gospel-charged. 

Myrna Loy..

Myrna Loy was an American film, television and stage actress. Trained as a dancer, Loy devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films.

Clara Bow..

Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in silent film during the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" after 1927.

Lynda Carter..

Lynda Carter (born Linda Jean Córdova Carter; July 24, 1951) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, model, and beauty pageant titleholder, who was crowned Miss World America 1972. She would go on to finish as a semifinalist in the Miss World 1972 pageant.

Carter is most widely known as the star of the American live action television series Wonder Woman, in the role of Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, based on the DC comic bookfictional superheroine character of the same name, which aired on ABC and later on CBS from 1975 to 1979.

Claudette Colbert..

Claudette Colbert was an American stage and film actress and a leading lady in Hollywood for over two decades, and has been called "The mixture of inimitable beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity".

A first for me....

Every year in the town where I live there is an open art exhibition and whilst I have had digital work accepted in the past I decided that this year I would try and do a painting using real paints !!!
I haven't done any painting since leaving school more than 50 years ago so it was going to be quite a challenge.
I decided that I would use oil paints as I had never used them when at school, and paint on canvas.
Having bought all the necessary paint and brushes etc it was then a question of what to paint and how to paint it....
I had intended at first to try and paint a portrait ,so went straight to you tube for help....good grief there where so many different ways and ideas etc that I decided that perhaps I needed to find another subject which given that I was doing this outside of my comfort zone perhaps wasn't a bad idea.

I'm a supporter of the towns professional rugby league team and go to all the home matches where at the half time break the young kids from clubs in the town come onto the pitch and play.It's great to watch because some of them are so small they look lost in the kit and they show so much enthusiasm often they are more entertaining than the real thing....

So having watched a game a few weeks ago I came up with the idea of a youngster carrying the ball ,dressed in the town colours, being chased by two professional players ..the title being Living the dream ( playing for the professional team) catch me if you can..

Great I had a canvas 30" x 20" but couldn't decide how big everything should be..so I drew the whole thing out using my cintq to try and get the proportions how I wanted them.The two players running in the back worked out at A4 size so I printed the line drawing of each of them out so I could trace them onto the canvas.
The little lad was more A3 size and I only have an A4 printer....what to do ? it was Sunday and the printer I use is shut and I wanted to make a start ,although I was thinking the exhibition is only in August/September so I have plenty of time, but now I'd started I didn't want to be held up so I put the screen of the cintq level, blew up the drawing to the size I wanted ,stuck some tracing paper on the screen and traced away...Finaly the drawing was on the canvas...
Then I found I had a problem..entries for the exhibition had to be in by 2 July at the latest which gave me only two weeks !!! not two months as I had thought

I never realised how long it took oil paint to dry..it dries quickly on the computer, I had to make some quick decisions ,I wasn't going to have time to put in all the details I wanted especially on the two chasers so I decided to concentrate on the little boy and just block in the figures behind.
I was reasonably pleased with how it turned out for a first attempt and have a lot more respect now for those who paint in oils or acrylics or watercolours or any medium for that matter as I have found out just how easy it isn't.....
Hope you like it..