Friday 27 December 2019

Twitter challenge..


Thursday Twitter challenge... 'Portrait of an Unknown Woman', painted by Ivan Kramskoi 

Saturday 21 December 2019

Claudine Auger RIP..

Claudine Auger was a French actress best known for her role as Bond girl, Dominique "Domino" Derval, in the James Bond film Thunderball .

Wednesday 6 November 2019

Carol Voderman...

Carol Jean Vorderman, MBE is a British media personality, best known for co-hosting the popular game show Countdown for 26 years from 1982 until 2008

Sunday 3 November 2019

Marie LaforĂȘt RIP

Marie LaforĂȘt was a French singer and actress.

Thursday 31 October 2019

Twitter Portrait Challenge...


Thursday #PortraitChallenge!
✏️
The princess Nawal Toussoun, painted by Leonor Fini in 1952

Tuesday 29 October 2019

Mariah Carey..

Mariah Carey is an American singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and entrepreneur.

Thursday 24 October 2019

Audrey Tautou..

Audrey Justine Tautou is a French actress

Diana Ross...

American vocalist, music artist and actress

Tuesday 22 October 2019

Alfonso Ribeiro..

Alfonso Lincoln Ribeiro Sr. is an American actor, comedian, dancer, director, game show host and television personality.

Saturday 19 October 2019

Mariza..

Mariza , born Marisa dos Reis Nunes (born 16 December 1973), is a popular Portuguese fado singer.. 

Thursday 17 October 2019

Paloma Faith..

Paloma Faith Blomfield (born 21 July 1981) is an English singer, songwriter, and actress.. Faith is known for her retro and eccentric style.

Tuesday 15 October 2019

Jenny Agutter

Jennifer Ann Agutter OBE is a British actress. She began her career as a child actress in 1964, appearing in East of Sudan, Star!, and two adaptations of The Railway Children—the BBC's 1968 television serial and the 1970 film version.

Faye Dunaway..

Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker in the film Bonnie and Clyde...

Friday 11 October 2019

Thursday Twitter portrait challenge..


#PortraitChallenge! ‘Portrait of a merchant’ by Jan Gossaert, 1530

Saturday 5 October 2019

Greta Garbo..

Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. Garbo was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and received an Academy Honorary Award in 1954 for her luminous and unforgettable screen performances.

Thursday 3 October 2019

Jessye Norman RIP..

Jessye Norman (September 15, 1945 – September 30, 2019) was an American opera singer and recitalist.

Tuesday 1 October 2019

Noel Ford RIP

member of the Cartoonists club of Great Britain...

Friday 27 September 2019

Natalie Portman..

Natalie Portman (born Neta-Lee Hershlag; June 9, 1981) is an actress and filmmaker with dual Israeli and American citizenship. She is the recipient of various accolades , including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards .Here she is Mathilda in the film Leon the Professional...

Thursday 26 September 2019

Jacques Chirac RIP..

Jacques René Chirac was a French politician who served as President of France and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra from 1995 to 2007.

Wednesday 25 September 2019

Sajid Javid..

Sajid Javid is a British Conservative politician serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer since July 2019. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bromsgrove in 2010.

Tuesday 24 September 2019

Victoria Wood..

Victoria Wood, was an English comedian, actress, singer, composer, screenwriter, producer and director.

Monday 23 September 2019

Dawn French..

Dawn Roma French is a British actress, writer, comedian and presenter from Plymouth. She is best known for starring in and writing for the BBC comedy sketch show French and Saunders with comedy partner Jennifer Saunders and for playing the lead role as Geraldine Granger in the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley.

Friday 20 September 2019

Carole Lombard...

Carole Lombard was an American film actress. She was particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s. She was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s.

Thursday 19 September 2019

Thursday Twitter challenge..

Thursday #PortraitChallenge! Woman with Red Headscarf, painted sometime in the 1940's by Alfred Neville Lewis (1895-1972)

Lupe Velez..

MarĂ­a Guadalupe Villalobos VĂ©lez, known professionally as Lupe VĂ©lez, was a Mexican-born stage and screen actress, comedian, singer, dancer, and vedette. VĂ©lez began her career as a performer in Mexican vaudeville in the early 1920s.

Wednesday 18 September 2019

Wednesday 11 September 2019

Charlene Tilton..

Charlene L. Tilton is an American actress and singer. She is best known for playing Lucy Ewing, the saucy niece of John "J.R. " Ewing Jr., on the television series Dallas.

Tuesday 10 September 2019

Monday 9 September 2019

Orderrrrr..

John Simon Bercow MP is a British politician who has been the Speaker of the House of Commons since June 2009.

Thursday 5 September 2019

Thursday twitter challenge..

Thursday Twitter portrait challenge..
A Girl Wearing Breton Costume by Élisabeth Sonrel, 1874 - 1953. I think I've found out who she is !!!!! hope you like it...

Tuesday 3 September 2019

Romy Schneider..

Romy Schneider was a film actress and voice actress born in Vienna and raised in Germany who held German and French citizenship. 

Monday 2 September 2019

Salma Hayek..

Salma Hayek Pinault is a Mexican and American film actress and producer.

Thursday 29 August 2019

Thursday Twitter challenge..


Thursday #PortraitChallenge: Louis-Benoit Zamor, painted by Marie-Victoire Lemoine in 1785

Wednesday 28 August 2019

Jessica Rabbit..

Jessica Rabbit is a fictional character in Who Censored Roger Rabbit? and its loose film adaptation, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. She is depicted as Roger's human toon wife in various Roger Rabbit media.

Tuesday 27 August 2019

Peter Ustinov..

English actor Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE FRSA as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot...

Thursday 22 August 2019

Thursday Twitter challenge...


Thursday #PortraitChallenge Portrait of an Old Woman with a Green Scarf, by Christian Seybold (1695-1768),
..hope you and Hilda like it...


Monday 19 August 2019

Mythical mashup..


Monday #MythicalMashup! MERMAID + FANCY HAT...Hello sailor !!!
my quick attempt...

Friday 16 August 2019

Young lady in a boat...

Ok so you can't see the boat because this is part of a painting by James Tissot in 1870 called Young Lady in a boat...

Thursday 15 August 2019

Thursday twitter portrait challenge...

Thursday #PortraitChallenge! Seid Enkess, a former slave, sculpted in bronze in 1951 by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier. (France had recently abolished slavery, in 1848.)@StudioTeaBreak .

Wednesday 14 August 2019

Toulouse Lautrec..

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th.century

Sunday 11 August 2019

Joyce Bryant..

Joyce Bryant is an African-American singer and actress who achieved fame in the late 1940s and early 1950s as a theater and nightclub performer.