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Actor : Audrey Hepburn

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 The Most Beautiful Film Actress of All Time : Audrey Hepburn The ultimate personification of pure love & true beauty ( next to my Mum & Elisa ) ... Audrey Hepburn   (born  Audrey Kathleen Ruston ; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993). She was a British  actress & humanitarian. Recognised as both a film & fashion icon, she was ranked by the  American Film Institute  as the  third-greatest female screen legend  from the  Golden Age of Hollywood  & was inducted into the  International Best Dressed List   Hall of Fame . I first saw the most beautiful  screen legend in the romantic comedy  Roman Holiday   (1953) alongside  Gregory Peck , for which she was the first actress to win an  Oscar , a   Golden Globe Award  & a  BAFTA Award  for a single performance.  She went on to star in a number of successful films such as  Sabrina   (1954), in...

Actor : Gregory Peck

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 Great American Actor : Gregory Peck My Mother named me after the great American actor Gregory Peck   (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003).  He was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. In 1999, the  American Film Institute  named Peck among  25 Greatest Male Stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema , ranking him at No. 12 . So I can only rave about this man & his movie career. Peck first gained critical success in  The Keys of the Kingdom  (1944), a  John M. Stahl –directed drama which earned him his first  Academy Award  nomination. He starred in a series of successful films, including romantic-drama  The Valley of Decision  (1944),  Alfred Hitchcock 's  Spellbound  (1945), and family film  The Yearling  (1946). He encountered lukewarm commercial reviews at the end of the 1940s, his performances including  The Paradine Case  (1947) and  The Great Sinner  (...

Graphic Design : Illustrations

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My Entrance into the World of Illustrations  I love to do illustrations both computer and traditional hand drawing. The type of painting I prefer is watercolour but I do try my hand with oils and acrylics at times. On this blog I will be featuring work I am doing have done and I may talk about what is yet to come. The illustration for the poster up top was inspired by a photograph of the most beautiful Audrey Hepburn. You will soon learn that I am the biggest fan of this most beautiful woman. My ultimate favourite film is Roman Holiday. Not only Audrey but it had Gregory Peck (whom I a named after by my Mother) as well. Well, enough of that let's get back to the illustration. It was commission by a Woman's Networking Group based in Ottawa and it was called Cherry Pie. A most lovely Chinese graphic design created the logo and it was great joy to work with her, her name was Lisa Sun and she was visiting Canada for her first time. Any who the Audrey illustration is what I contribu...