Church Hall Combatants

Terrific Phillip. Them to the life.

Thanks Jim. These are a little more caracature in style, particularly Mr Yateman who is one big lampoon in any case!

Just like them. Used to watch that with my Dad.

Thank you Janet. Me too, but then I liked it for the slapstick and obvious clownery. Now I see something new in the subtlety of the writing and the strength of the characters. Brilliant show.

Very good. The Vicar is least accurate, but no doubt who these chaps are at all. Very good.

Wonderful trio Philip, so comical.

Great characters!

Don't agree with David Perry at all! The vicar is what immediately caused me to recognize the characters when I saw them in thumbnail - that's him to the life, and of the three he's the only actor who (so far as I know) is still alive. Forgotten his name, though.

Thank you Carole, Linda. Just goes to show the subjectivity of art eh David. Frank Williams played Rev Timothy Farthing Robert, and along with Ian Lavendar (Frank Pike) is the only surviving member of the stellar cast.

Another brilliant painting Philip, very well captured.

Thank you Margaret. I think that's me lot for Dad's Army characters.

Another wonderful addition to the series. Are you planning on painting some of the women next?

Have just read your comment saying you think "that's me lot". What about Mrs Pike, Mrs Fox, some of Joe's girlfriends, Godfrey's sisters, and I am sure you could imagine what Elizabeth Mainwaring might have looked like. I think even Frazer had a girlfriend once didn't he?

Now that's a challenge Sarah, though I hasten to add the challenge is not presented by my ability to represent the female portrait. The challenge is I'm afraid the difficulty in finding enough female DA characters. Mrs Fox, Mavis Pike, Dolly Godfrey......We never saw Elizabeth Mainwaring did we?

My apologies.....Sandra.

I think Wendy Richard, Pauline Fowler in Eastenders, was one of Joe Walker's girlfriends. If memory serves, she was an usherette at the local cinema.

Together with the others, a totally brilliant collection Phillip. Really well done. They live on in paint.

Great!

Now that's a challenge Sarah, though I hasten to add the challenge is not presented by my ability to represent the female portrait. The challenge is I'm afraid the difficulty in finding enough female DA characters. Mrs Fox, Mavis Pike, Dolly Godfrey......We never saw Elizabeth Mainwaring did we? Posted by philip rogers on Fri 02 Mar 20:53:25 Well, that should give you enough for at least one if not two paintings! Godfrey had two sisters, Cicely was the other. And although we never saw Eliz Mainwaring I am sure you could imagine her. Perhaps the females with their male - Godfrey with his sisters, Arthur and Mavis, Jones and Mrs Fox, Joe with one or two of his girlfriends, Mainwaring and Eliz? Not forgetting the inimitable Frazer, I seem to remember he liked women with good strong thighs? He did have a girlfriend once but it didn't last.

It reminds me of old postcards. I like your work.

Thanks Maureen and Ibolya. As I have said in response to Jim Morris' Kitcheneresque version of Clive Dunn, I seem to have started something. Which is what art's all about really.