ali v folley sketch

This was a Friday morning for cooking breakfast of egg whites and Jimmy Dean Hot Sausage, drinking coffee, watching the YouTube video of Muhammad Ali and Zora Folley squaring off in 1967, and sketching. I either never knew or had forgotten that Folley was from Chandler, Arizona, about a 15-minute drive from where I live now.

I’m hoping to watch this fight again, on my TV instead of my phone, and sketch in much larger scale, then paint. This sketch doesn’t show Ali’s lightness on his feet, and there’s more to be done about a conveyance of the course of the fight. But based on the heap of conceived, but unexecuted projects that died on the vine, the likelihood is slight.