The Dragons Den Collection

As expected, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.  These look great and the collection is up for sale. It’s a shame that Sara’s painting isn’t more orange and the Neviller’s more pink, as originally intended in both cases, but I’m still more than happy.

It’s been an interesting experiment, applying the three layer technique (using the Art assist App) to marker portraits, with all the portraits looking a bit like photos from a distance.  On the other hand, I don’t see myself repeating this technique with markers.  It involves putting down big shapes of colour and the markers don’t like this: they prefer small shapes and quick marks.  Even the markers that didn’t die on me were struggling.  This feature of the markers is useful to know as I might otherwise have tried out portraits on bigger pads than the 5.5×8 inch ones that I’ve been using so far.  I know now that these markers wouldn’t have the stamina to work on bigger paintings.  It¡s not that they run out quickly: it’s just that they need to stop and recharge.

Here are links to the six subpaintings:

– Deborah Meaden

– Peter Jones

– Touker Suleyman

– Sara Davies

– Steven Bartlett

– Gary Neville