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

AFRO XVIII, 8" x 10", acylic/oil on canvas, 2008

November 24, 2008 • acrylic • AFRO SERIES • oil on canvas

Number 18, Funny enough I started this piece in 2003 and it has been lying in the corner of my studio for years. I picked it up and "freshened" it up a bit and it becomes the 18th in my Afro series.

The emphasis of this series is on the variety and beauty of natural black hair.

AFRO XVII, 13" x 10", Mixed Media, 2008

November 21, 2008 • acrylic • AFRO SERIES • carbon pencil • mixed media • watercolour • white charcoal pencil

Number 17 in my current Afro Series.

(detail)

The emphasis is on the variety and beauty of black natural hair.

The model here is a lovely girl that attends Sunday School in my church.

I have used acrylic washes to start, then watercolour, after which my carbon pencil, wax crayons and white charcoal pencil came in handy-I almost ruined this piece, sometimes one needs to know when to STOP!

NIGHT RAIDER, 12" x 18", Acrylic on heavy watercolour paper, 2008

October 24, 2008 • acrylic • different strokes from different folks • Karin Jurick

Once again this is from Karin Jurick's different stokes from different folks. The cows are arriving from all over the world- this is absolute fun to see, check them out!

I did this one in acrylic, no more no less...............

This is the palette below, the "beef" the cow was made of.

AFRO SERIES XV, 12" x 16", Acrylic on linen, 2008

October 16, 2008 • acrylic • AFRO SERIES

This is number 15 in the current AFRO SERIES, this girl is a beauty, and I really love her 3 balls of Afro, she attends my Sunday school class!

I am currently trying to see how far I can take Acrylic without adding any other medium.

Once again the emphasis is the beauty and variety of Afro hair.

EMOTIONS IV, 8.5" x 10.5", Acrylic, 2008

October 15, 2008 • acrylic • emotions

This is the fourth in my emotions series. The model is one of my favourite, models she is Jewish and an artist herself.

I have used only three colours here- white, ultramarine blue and burnt sienna. I tried to keep this one down to only one medium just to see how far I could go with acrylic. Its been a learning experience for me.

This series is all about the mental state of people that can arise...