ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING — acrylic

Coastal Adventures in Acrylic (DVD) The trailer is here!

acrylic alla prima DVD impressionism plein air

This is it! The trailer is just to wet your appetite! If you love plein air work, direct painting, painting with passion, or you love acrylics and would love to explore some possibilities with it outdoors- you'll ENJOY Coastal Adventures in Acrylic. It was an adventure for me and I strongly feel the only thing that takes that "spirit of adventure" we all had when we were younger out of us, is the...

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Bath Marathon 4 PART 1 and a bit of info on my new PAINTING DVD

acrylic alla prima Bath Experience Bath Marathon DVD landscape painting

This is Part 1 of a 5 part series of posts for my 4th Bath Marathon. I'll also be giving you some information about my new painting DVD, which features me painting at Cromer on the coasts. Tomorrow, I'll make a full post all about it and as the day of release gets closer, I'll be posting more information about it!

BATH MARATHON 4


156- Queen's Square, Autumn I- My first shot on the 4th marathon, I...

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FLAMENCO SERIES 2 & 3, Mixed Media on Paper, 2010

acrylic chalk pastel charcoal dust coloured pencil flamenco series gouache graphite dust oil base pencil wax crayons

My series of flamenco dancers continues. My goal is to experiment with movement, texture, mood, energy, vitality and emotion-all of which would be the highlights in this series of drawings and paintings.



FLAMENCO SERIES 2

The inspiration for this series has come from Brian's St Louis Drawing Blog. He had an interesting post on a Flamenco dancer, Beth Steinbrennerto not only model for them but also...

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Bath Experience VIII (shots on the site) Dec 1-3, 2009

acrylic Bath Experience cityscape landscape painting me plein air

These are 5 shots of the 5 different paintings I attempted in the cold at Bath from the 1st of December to the 3rd of December, last week. Hope to elaborate more on each, if time allows as I'm also preparing for a Christmas break with my family to Japan.


@photo by Femi Jaiyeola

..getting a clearer view around the Weir



@photo by Megan Kelland

Too cold for comfort at Queens Square




...frozen strokes at Ki...

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War Memorial, All Saints Church Belvedere, 8" x 12", Acrylic on Canvas board, 2009

acrylic canvas board.me landscape painting plein air

Everyone wants to paint autumn scenes and I wasn't going to be left out. I have always noticed this lovely war memorial at All Saints Church, Belvedere, Kent and I always wanted to paint around this area. I like the old twisty trees and the faded rustic beauty of the church. So I decided to take this on this morning from around 9.30am to 12.30 in the afternoon. One of the ladies that works in the...

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