Illustration

When I was studying at the London College of Printing, I always found myself looking through books of illustrations and trying to establish my own style.

A poor attempt at caricature, but forgiven by Dame Edna.

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My subjects mostly revolved around women's faces, I was especially intrigued by their expressive eyes.

After many attempts, the one piece of work that I was most satisfied with was an illustrations of Miss Liza Minnelli, see above. This was inspired by a scene from the film Lucky Lady. Her eyes were her trade mark, here, I used a white background without any colouring in her face, thus, exaggerating the eyes even more.

Here, in 1979 seen here with Ms Minnelli when she was performing at the Royal Opera House in Martha Graham's The Owl and the Pussy Cat, as the narrator.

A recent illustration of Ms Minnelli.(1999) copyright

signed by Ms Minnelli on the 18/1/2000

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The most famous of them all - Betty Davis EYES

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A very rare photo of Ms Davis and Ms Minnelli.

An illustration of Ms Davis, scene from her film, 'The Anniversary'.

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Another set of legendary eyes - Miss Joan Crawford in, 'Sudden Fear'.

An illustration of Miss Crawford from her film, 'Strait Jacket'

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Ms Davis and Ms Crawford in their first and last classic film.

'What ever happened to Baby Jane'

Together.....?

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