Paul Bocuse RIP..

Portrait of Paul Bocuse (pronounced [pɔl bokyz]) (11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018)^[1] was a French chef based in Lyon who was known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine.

A student of Eugénie Brazier, he was one of the most prominent chefs associated with the nouvelle cuisine, which is less opulent and calorific than the traditional cuisine classique, and stresses the importance of fresh ingredients of the highest quality. Paul Bocuse claimed that Henri Gault first used the term, nouvelle cuisine, to describe food prepared by Bocuse and other top chefs for the maiden flight of the Concorde airliner in 1969

Ruth Gordon..

Another portrait, but this time using the felt pen tool in Artrage....

Ruth Gordon Jones, known as Ruth Gordon, was an American film, stage, and television actress, as well as a screenwriter and playwright. Gordon began her career performing on Broadway at age nineteen.

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.
Another portrait using the oil paint feature on Artrage...

Meera Syal..

Meera Syal, CBE is a British comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actress.
This was done to tryout the oil paint on Artrage, the programme I use for drawing.
I've used this feature in the past without much success so I'm going to persevere and do the next drawings using it.

Frank Skinner..

Frank Skinner is an English writer, comedian, TV and radio presenter, and actor. At the 2001 British Comedy Awards, he was awarded the Best Comedy Entertainment Personality.

Ron Howard..

Opie Taylor is a fictional character played by Ron Howard in the American television program The Andy Griffith Show, which was televised on CBS from October 3, 1960 to April 1, 1968. Opie Taylorappeared in 209 of the 249 episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, and appeared in 2 spin-off shows and a TV Movie. 

Dylan Thomas...

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime and remained so after his premature death at the age of 39 in New York City. By then he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet"

Aida Overton Walker..

Aida Overton Walker (14 February 1880 – 11 October 1914), also billed as Ada Overton Walker and as "The Queen of the Cakewalk", was an African-American vaudeville performer, actress, singer, dancer, choreographer, and wife of vaudevillian George Walker.

Sophia and Cary...

First drawing of the new year.

.Sophia Loren and Cary Grant in the film Houseboat...

Marlene.....

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich was a German actress and singer who held both German and American citizenship. Throughout her long career, she maintained popularity by continually reinventing herself.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders..

Sarah Elizabeth Huckabee Sanders is an American campaign manager and political advisor who was appointed White House press secretary to President Donald Trump in July 2017.

Jo Brand..

Josephine Grace Brand is an English comedian, writer and actress. Starting her entertainment career with a move from psychiatric nursing to the alternative comedy stand-up scene.
In 2009 she did Britney Spears for Comic relief...this is an 2017update !!!!!

Mary Quant...

Dame Barbara Mary Quant, Mrs Plunket Greene, DBE, FCSD, RDI is a Welsh fashion designer and British fashion icon. She became an instrumental figure in the 1960s London-based Mod and youth fashion movements. 

Adrienne Posta..

Quick drawing of Adrienne Posta  an English film and television actress and singer, prominent during the 1960s and 1970s.

Some recent commissions...

Alistair Cooke...

Alistair Cooke KBE (20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004) was a British- American journalist, television personality and broadcaster. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cooke's America, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theatre from 1971

Ben Turpin..

Bernard "Ben" Turpin was an American comedian and actor, best remembered for his work in silent films.

Rev. Richard Coles...

The Reverend Richard Coles (born 26 March 1962) is an English musician, journalist and Church of England priest and contestant on Strictly come dancing ..

Agatha Christie...

I recently sold a drawing i did of Agatha Christie to a big fan of hers in Australia.
He had the drawing printed onto canvas and framed.
He very kindly sent me a photo of the finished piece...

Sir Ken Dodd..

Sir Ken Dodd..
very privileged to have my drawing of Sir Ken included in a souvenir programme for a celebratory lunch in honour of Ken by the British Music hall Society..