Marilyn Monroe ..

Holly Willoughby..

Holly Marie Baldwin is an English television presenter and model. She is currently the co-presenter of This Morning and I'm a celebrity 2018..

Audrey Hepburn..

Audrey Hepburn was a British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, Hepburn was active during Hollywood's Golden Age.

Harvey Keitel..

An American actor and producer.Since 2014, he has reprised his role of Winston Wolfe from Pulp Fiction as part of a £40 million television advertising campaign for Direct Line, an insurance company in the United Kingdom.

George Carlin..

Was a Visionary standup comedian, social critic, and actor of the '60s-2000s whose musings on the language are legendary.

Les Dawson..

Leslie Dawson Jr. was an English comedian, actor, writer, and presenter, who is best remembered for his deadpan style, curmudgeonly persona and jokes about his mother-in-law and wife.

Jason Statham...

Jason Statham is an English actor and film producer. Typecast as the antihero, he is known for his action-thriller roles and portraying tough, irredeemable, and machiavellian characters. 

Cleo Lane...

Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth, DBE (born 28 October 1927) is an English jazz and pop singer and an actress, known for her scat singing and for her vocal range. 

Penelope Cruz..

Penélope Cruz Sánchez is a Spanish actress and model. 

Francoise Pascal..

Françoise Pascal is a Mauritian actress and model. She was born on the island of Mauritius to French Mauritian parents. She is best known for her role as Danielle in the British sitcom Mind Your Language.

Sandra Dee..

she was an American actress...

Jacob Rees-Mogg..

Christina Aquilira..

Christina María Aguilera  is an American singer - songwriter, actress, model, dancer and television personality.

Taylor Swift..

she is an American singer/songwriter..

Ingrid Bergman...Casablanca

I

ngrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films

Geoffrey Holder..

Geoffrey Lamont Holder  was a Trinidadian-American actor, voice actor, dancer, choreographer, singer, director and painter. He was known for his height (6 ft 6 in, 1.98 m), "hearty laugh", and heavily accented bass voice combined with precise diction. Particularly remembered as the villain Baron Samedi in the 1973 Bond-movie Live and Let Die and for his role of Punjab in the 1982 film Annie, he was also known for his 7 Up commercials of the 1970s and '80s.

Bea Arthur..

Beatrice Arthur (born Bernice Frankel; May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009) was an American actress, comedian, singer, Marine, and animal rights activist.

Tina Louise..

Tina Louise is an American actress best known for playing movie star Ginger Grant in the CBS television situation comedy Gilligan's Island.

Freda Payne..

Freda Charcilia Payne (born September 19, 1942) is an American singer and actress. 

Sade..

Helen Folasade Adu CBE  born 16 January 1959, known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade , is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the English band Sade.

He's behind you.....

Batman and the joker...Adam West and Cesar Romero...

Jaqueline Bisset..

Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset (/ˈbɪsɪt/ BISS-it; born 13 September 1944) is an English actress. She began her film career in 1965, first coming to prominence in 1968 with roles in The Detective, Bullitt, and The Sweet Ride, for which she received a most promising newcomer Golden Globe nomination.

Fozzie...

and why not.......

Sonny and Cher...

Sonny & Cher were an American duo of entertainers made up of husband-and-wife Sonny Bono and Cher in the 1960s and 1970s. The couple started their career in the mid-1960s as R&B backing singers for record producer Phil Spector.

Fenella Fielding..RIP

Fenella Fielding, OBE was

an English stage, film and television actress, popular in the 1950s and 1960s and known as "England's first lady of the double entendre".

Clark Gable...

just trying something different..

Marilyn..blowing a bubble...

When they where young..

Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter. 

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..

Latest commission..

This was fun to do as I haven't drawn many babies...

Eddie Izzard..

Edward John Izzard is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer and political activist. His comedic style takes the form of rambling, whimsical monologue, and self-referential pantomime.