"Famous Faces"

Over the past few weeks I've been working on a series called "Famous Faces" - a collection of Fine Art portraits of legendary people dating right back to the 1920's. I'm holding an exhibition for the collection, at Rudeboy Studios in Norwich, from May 14th onwards.

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Marilyn

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I know Marilyn Monroe has been used over and over again in the past by different artist's, to the point of becoming a bit of a cliché, but I still wanted to do my own take on her, and found an awesome photo I hadn't seen before. If I was going to do it I wanted it to be something different, not the typical smiley pose you find with Andy Warhol prints, so thought this was perfect.

John Frusciante

Now that I've finished uni, I've had more of a chance to get back into Illustration, and I love it! A close friend of mine asked me to do an illustration of former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante, and I couldn't wait to start it. I was well chuffed with the results, and think it's one of my best pieces of work so far.

This one's for you Mark.

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