Jessye Norman RIP..

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

Noel Ford RIP

member of the Cartoonists club of Great Britain...

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...

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.

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.

Victoria Wood..

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

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.

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 Twitter challenge..

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

Lupe Velez..

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

Lauren Bacall...

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.

Barbara Streisand...

Orderrrrr..

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

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...

Romy Schneider..

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

Salma Hayek..

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

Thursday Twitter challenge..

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

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.

Peter Ustinov..

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

Thursday Twitter challenge...

Thursday #PortraitChallenge Portrait of an Old Woman with a Green Scarf, by Christian Seybold (1695-1768),

@StudioTeaBreak

..hope you and Hilda like it...

Mythical mashup..

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

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 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 .

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

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.

Audrey Hepburn..

Thursday portrait challenge..

Thursday #PortraitChallenge! Portrait of an Officer, possibly Pierre Wautier, painted by Michaelina Waitier around 1650 .@StudioTeaBreak ..here's my version hope you like it...

Portrait of Duchess Ursula Mniszech....

Portrait of Duchess Ursula Mniszech by Dmitry Levitsky 1735 ... this is my digital version..

Thursday challenge..

Thursday #PortraitChallenge! Allegory of the art of painting, from the Casa Vasari in Arezzo, Italy, painted by Giorgio Vasari around 1542 @StudioTeaBreak here's my take on it..hope you like it..

Twitter Challenge..

@StudioTeaBreak

#PortraitChallenge : Mary Magdalene, painted as an altarpiece in 1480 by Carlo Crivelli ..didn't have time to do the full drawing...

Boris...

Boris...

a couple of old drawings which I thought appropriate for today...

folie Bergeres..

The Folies Bergère (French pronunciation: ​[fɔ.li bɛʁ.ʒɛʁ]) is a cabaret music hall, located in Paris, France. Located at 32 rue Richer in the 9th Arrondissement, the Folies Bergère was built as an opera house by the architect Plumeret. It opened on 2 May 1869 as the Folies Trévise, with light entertainment including operettas, comic opera, popular songs, and gymnastics. It became the Folies Bergère on 13 September 1872, named after nearby rue Bergère. The house was at the height of its fame and popularity from the 1890s' Belle Époque through the 1920s.
Although I haven't been to the Folies..in the early 70's I did spend a great evening with free champagne at the Moulin Rouge another famous Paris night club..

Tamara de Lempicka..

Tamara de Lempicka was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes.
I used a black and white photo and tried to draw her in her own style..

Thursday Twitter challenge..

@StudioTeaBreak

#PortraitChallenge Sikh Atma Singh, 1943 by John Berry.
When I saw the painting for today I thought of Michael Bates as Ranji Ram in the tv sitcom It aint half hot mum..and as I'd already drawn Windsor Davies as Seargent Major Williams ,I thought I'd put him in too...

Rory Stewart..

Roderick James Nugent "Rory" Stewart OBE FRSL MP is a British politician serving as Secretary of State for International Development since 2019. 

Unknown woman...

I saw the reference photo and the only details where the Estonia art museum..but I couldn't trace anything else...so here is my take on the photo...

Thursday Twitter challenge..

Thursday #PortraitChallenge! Pandam Paliya thovil mask, 20th century, Sri Lanka, artist unknown. Wood, jute fibre, paint..as soon as I saw the picture I thought of Animal from the Muppets...

Thursday Twitter challenge...

Thursday twitter challenge....
#PortraitChallenge! The Straw Hat, painted by Pieter Paul Rubens around 1625..