Australian opener and vice-captain David Warner’s fresh caricature made by the promising painter James Brennan has won the Australia’s national award of Bald Archy for 2017, as it was one of the sketches which has been finalised by the officials of the famous competition in Australia.
“I think every cricket fan’s imagination and that sparked the initial idea of doing a painting of Dave Warner,” Brennan was quoted as saying by Cricket.com.au.
With this addition to the award list, Warner has become third Australian player after former leg-spinner Shane Warne and Mitchell Johnson in 2014.
After winning the art prize on Warner, Brennan revealed he has a massive respect for the latter while adding he enjoys his explosive batting donning the national jersey.
“I choose Dave because I’m a huge fan of the way he plays cricket and I love watching him come out to open for Australia and put a big score on quickly,” Brennan said.
Interestingly, the portrait of the Warner showed, he is holding a willow bigger than his size, as it was termed as best by the competition judge Maude – a white cockatoo.
The prestigious award is being given to the artists, who capture the figures on canvas which further include the satiric sketches, best comical plots including the field of sports.
“I just love the way he plays his cricket. The way he bats, the way he fields. He’s aggressive, entertaining. He can make a quick hundred before lunch,” Brennan added.
The 30-year-old explosive batsman Warner has filled his home cabinet with multiple medals and trophies while being a vital cog in Australia’s wheel.
Canvassing the aggression, the painter has termed the latest portrait as ‘Pocket Rocket’ after closely flowing the New South Wales-born batsman.
“Aggressive and entertaining in his batting and fielding I was hoping to capture that in my caricature of him,” Brennan asserted.
Brennan, who is known as one of the best painters has claimed three separate prizes of the Bald Archy competition including the latest sketch of pocket size dynamite from the field of cricket, after laying his hand on $10,000 prize money.
“He had an amazing summer of cricket in Australia which captured my imagination,” Brennan further added.
The water-resistant paint is acrylic is 121.8 cm in length and 91.cm in breadth which might find a place in Warner’s room cabinet.
Coming to the conclusion, Brennan remarked he has enjoyed capturing the face while revealing he has put an extra effort – to make the portrait interesting for the viewers.
Warner has featured in 96 One-day Internationals, 64 Tests and 63 Twenty20 Internationals for Australia. He has scored 5,454 runs in five-day format, 4,025 in ODIs and 1,686 in T20Is.