As promised by Alex at Leadballoony blog, the roundup of entries for 2021s FEMbruary Challenge IV was posted on International Women’s Day, yesterday – https://leadballoony.com/2021/03/08/2021-fembruary-iv-round-up/ Bravo Alex! It’s been another successful year’s challenge.
There’s increasingly a great range of entries encompassing all kinds of painting styles, interests, genres and figure manufacturers, so why not pop over and take a look at the kind of female characters being painted in the hobby nowadays?
Oh, and my humble offering of five female SOE agents brought home the “Most Thought-Provoking Entry” category – my first success in the FEMbruary challenge! Click below to read more about these phenomenally brave agents from WWII:
- Nancy Wake
- Annie Norman (an honorary SOE agent…)
- Krystyna Skarbek
- Noor Inayat Khan
- Virginia Hall
Suburban Militarism 
A good achievement, Marvin! 🙂 Nicely done!
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A fine quintet of remarkable females for FEMbruary.
Another remarkable female Polly Fishburn the Gamkeepee’s Daughter (sounds like a folk song) from Holkham – International Women’s Day / Women’s History Month Blog post https://www.holkham.co.uk/blog/post/an-extraordinary-woman-polly-fishburn
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Wow, what a great find. She would have been 2 years old when my Holkham Yeomanry were formed and would have grown up seeing them on the estate right up until their demise I think in the late 1820s.
If “Polly Fishburn the Gamekeepeer’s Daughter” isn’t the title of an old music hall number, I don’t know what is!
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Thank you John. We all like a bit of kudos every now and then! 🙂
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Well deserved Marvin- it has been very enjoyable following along you painting all of the agents.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Cheers Pete, I really enjoyed the process of painting them and finding out about their lives. 🙂
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Neat work mate, a couple of lasses I haven’t seen before !
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Cheers, Pat. I wasn’t too familiar with any of them myself when I started painting.
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