The Dads Army Collection

From left to right, top to bottom:

– Captain Mainwaring

– Wilson

– Jonesy

– Godfrey and Pike

– The verger and vicar

– Frazer

– Hodges

– Walker

Normally I’d say that the portraits weren’t that special but that they work well together as a collection but some of these individual masterpieces are off the charts in terms of likeness.  And with them all having a bit of character to them and with the guest colours adding a little bit of, well, colour to what are otherwise painted only in greys and flesh tones, this is far and away my best collection of marker portraits so far.

In fact, if you showed me these portraits a couple of weeks ago I wouldn’t have believed that they were mine.  My marker portraits have taken a huge step forward in the last week or so, just after the first attempts at Wilson and Walker.  I’m now wondering what my next portrait in coloured pencil, oil pastel or even watercolour will look like.  Honestly, I’m still shocked at what I’ve managed to create here.

And the collection was indeed sold, to someone with a huge interest in WW2 history.