Self as……B&W Version
So, here we have one of the Black and Whites of "Self portrait as Francis Deakin". Personally I am on the fence on which one I prefer, one of the curses of doing multiple versions, but how do you know which will be successful unless you try ALL the ideas .... right? What do you think?
Anyways like I said before the title is a play on names from the inspiration of the work. Francis is Francis Bacon and Deakin is John Deakin. I have always loved the imagery of Francis Bacon (sometimes not his colour choice) and he would only work from photographs. John Deakin who is a bit more obscure, was a friend of Bacon and part of the Soho art crowd at the time. He took a now famous portrait of Bacon for Vogue.