Saturday, 24 February 2018

RIP Alice Tinker....

Emma G. M. Chambers was an English actress. She was best known for playing the role of Alice Tinker in the BBC comedy The Vicar of Dibley and Honey Thacker in the film Notting Hill.

Wednesday, 21 February 2018

Liza Minnelli...

Liza May Minnelli is an American actress and singer. Primarily known for her Academy Award-winning role as Sally Bowles in the 1972 musical film Cabaret.

Monday, 19 February 2018

John Noakes...and Shep..

John Noakes was an English television presenter and personality, best known for co-presenting the BBC children's magazine programme Blue Peter in the 1960s and 1970s.

Sunday, 18 February 2018

Jane Birkin..

Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE is an English-French actress, singer, songwriter, and model. She attained international fame and notoriety for her decade-long musical and romantic partnership with Serge Gainsbourg

Saturday, 17 February 2018

Carmen Dell'Orefice..

Carmen Dell'Orefice is an American model and actress. She is known within the fashion industry for being the world's oldest working model as of the Spring/ Summer 2012 season. She was on the cover of Vogue at the age of 15 and has been modelling ever since. Her daily motto is to enjoy herself, at no-one else's expense ...

Wednesday, 14 February 2018

Ving Rhames..

Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames is an American actor known for his roles as Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible film series, as well as Pulp Fiction, Don King: Only in America, Rosewood, Dawn of the Dead, and Bringing Out the Dead.

Saturday, 10 February 2018

John Challis..

John Challis is an English actor best known for portraying Aubrey "Boycie" Boyce in the long-running BBC television comedy series Only Fools and Horses and its sequel/spin-off The Green Green Grass.

Thursday, 8 February 2018

Marlène Jobert

Marlène Jobert is a French actress and writer and the mother of Eva Green the actress..

Saturday, 27 January 2018

J K Rowling...

Portrait of Joanne Rowling, CH, OBE, FRSL, FRCPE, writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, screenwriter, and producer who is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series.

Thursday, 25 January 2018

Virginia Woolf...

Portrait of Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer. She is considered one of the foremost modernists of the 20th-century

Wednesday, 24 January 2018

John Thaw..

John Edward Thaw, CBE was an English actor. He appeared in a range of television, stage, and cinema roles, his most popular being television series such as Inspector Morse, Redcap, The Sweeney, Home to Roost and Kavanagh QC.

Monday, 22 January 2018

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

Saturday, 20 January 2018

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.

Thursday, 18 January 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.
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.

Tuesday, 16 January 2018

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.

Friday, 12 January 2018

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. 

Tuesday, 9 January 2018

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"

Friday, 5 January 2018

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.

Monday, 1 January 2018

Sophia and Cary...

First drawing of the new year.
.Sophia Loren and Cary Grant in the film Houseboat...