Ava Gardner..

American actress ...

Stamps...

After more years than I care to remember I  have started to enjoy stamp collecting..... and ,as you do ,I went onto e bay to see what was for sale that might be of interest....

I put in an unsuccessful bid for a set of stamps depicting children's comics...

This led to me thinking that it would be fun to draw my own stamps with characters from comics that I used to get as a child..... can you name the character and the comic???

look at the picture first before looking at the following...

left to right...

Keyhole Kate...Dandy

Mickey the Monkey....Topper

Alf Tupper...Victor

Teacher....Beano

Beryl the Peril....Dandy

Colonel Blink....Beezer...

Lauren Bacall..

she doesn't really need any introduction...I drew a younger version of her sometime ago so here is a slightly older Lauren..

Happy birthday Hawkeye Pierce....

Hawkeye was played by Alan Alda in the tv series M.A.S.H. 4077 about a medical unit in the Korean war......hard to believe that he is 78 today...

Peter Dinklage..

He is an American actor who has appeared in numerous films, but I know him best from the tv series Game of Thrones..

Javier Bardem..

A Spanish actor who has appeared in many films, notably for me in the Bond movie Skyfall...

Tobey Maguire..

I know he has been in a lot of films but I always associate him with the Spiderman films...

Arthur Daley....

played by George Cole in the Itv drama/comedy that started in 1979.
Arthur was a socially ambitious but highly unscrupulous importer/exporter, wholesaler and used car dealer...
would YOU buy a car off this man?

George Clooney..

I saw the ad he does on the tv for coffee so I thought I draw him..this was my second attempt....

Michael Lee Aday...aka Meatloaf...

I would do anything for love....but I won't do that.......so there!!!!

Eli Wallach..

played in many films but the reference for this was from the Magnificent Seven...
I started this sometime last year and never finished it...but I have now......

Roger lloyd Pack RIP.

probably best known for his role as Trigger in Only Fools and Horses , I liked him as Owen Newitt the farmer in The Vicar of Dibley..

Shirley Bassy..

this is a drawing of a young Shirley...she is a famous Welsh singer who is also a DBE...Dame of the British Empire..known for singing three title songs of the James Bond films amongst many other things..

Alice Cooper..

does he need any introduction????
I drew him a while ago with a snake...so this time...no snake

Remy...

Remy is the rat that wants to be a chef in the 2007 Pixar/Disney film Ratatouille.. as a child I  wanted to work for Disney !!!!! and make animated films but............
my favourite film is Snow White and the seven dwarves , but when Ratatouille was advertised I couldn't wait to see it...but as usual it had gone from the cinema by the time I realised it had been on..so I pre-ordered the dvd and guess what!!! still haven't watched it.
But that hadn't stopped me from drawing Remy....

Merlin..

this is Colin Morgan who played the part of Merlin in the fantasy/adventure tv series of the same name..

Bette Davis..

I drew this mainly because I liked the reference picture.....

Nigella Lawson..

she has been in the news a lot recently so...lets try and draw her..she has some Exceedingly good cakes !!!!

Jayne Mansfield..

she is the subject for a competition and thats why I drew her..........

Robin Hood....

My first recollection of Robin Hood was on tv, played by Richard Greene and he has always been my favourite actor in this role....However the BBC brought a new series of Robin Hood out a few years ago and this time Robin was played by Jonas Armstrong and I have to say I really enjoyed the series...so here is Jonas...

Michael Schumacher..

unfortunately at the time of posting he is in intensive care in a French hospital after a skiing accident... lets hope he recovers very soon..

Omar Sharif...

Egyptian actor who starred in many films including Dr Zhivago,Laurence of Arabia to name but two...

Benedict Cumberbatch..

as a new series of Sherlock is starting..or has started...thought I'd draw Cumberbatch...

Carol Burnett..

ok here is the first drawing of the new year..
Carol Burnett is an American writer comedian tv star..
I drew her because I liked the reference picture..