In life’s great game some days you on top and other days life steam rolls you.  Yesterday was one of the later days – nothing like as bad as I’ve had but bad enough to make me an exhibition opening by by good friend David Manley at the Lakeside Art Centre at Nottingham – which I’m really sorry I missed but it couldn’t be helped.

Today, after a lot of TLC, I’m a lot better and back on the boxer beat.  The other day I was flicking through one of my year books and it struck me that one of the things that I really enjoy is just sitting down and drawing a face and this was something I hadn’t done for a while just for the heck of it so that is exactly what I did and you know what I really enjoyed it – not trying to make a likeness but enjoy the process of drawing and sod the result.  This is what I did with this drawing of the formidable Mike Tyson.  There are a number of problems with the drawing but I just don’t care – I enjoyed the process and that is good enough for me.

As I keep making these boxing drawings the Dire Straights song Brothers in Arms keeps running through me head.  Not sure why