Life Art


Bare Knuckled Fighters was painted in August and September 2019 in acrylic on to a base drawing using pencil and water-based coloured pens. The art images are 1500 by 1200 pixels and displayed reduced (50%). I took the original photograph of the boxers (image 1600 by 1200 and shown at 37.5%). An aim was to make the protagonists' faces aggressive, as drawn from the source photograph. I used two photographs for the Master of Ceremonies/ Referee. The rest of the scene is entirely imaginary. Note that I recorded these images before signing and, as a result, it is signed on the back.




I do not use rulers or any art devices (like a grid). Thus, having adjusted to a lower pointo of view and fitted in the MC, I'd drawn the right hand female's arm as too long. This as corrected in the painting. There are variations in fists from the photograph. See below and continue for the source image.


The source photograph below is without a flash and this accounts for its fuzziness in low light. Obviously it was good enough as a source for a painting, which it was drawn from looking at a computer screen but was otherwise painted blind in a different room.



Adrian Worsfold