I've been fascinated by the life of Francis Bacon for quite some time now. What attracts me to his work isn't so much his form but his darkness and the way he manipulates color. Clearly he's had a disturbing and difficult life and yet his work is on fire with emotion, pain and a myriad of other issues. I've decided to paint his portrait based around this photo of him. In this photo he is quite, well, strange, his face nearly disfigured.