ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING — Bath Experience

Urban Shadow Highlights I, 6" x 8", Oil on gessoed mountboard (Bath Marathon Plein Air)

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Looking back, I have chosen 7 works from my Bath Marathon of paintings which Highlight Shadows and Raking Light.

This is number 1 in the series- it was painted with an evening back-lighting at Widcombe Parade, Bath.


Urban Shadow Highlights I-Backlighting Widcombe Parade, 6" x 8", Oil on Gessoed Mountboard

 
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This particular Series highlight the effect of...

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The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career -39

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NUMBER 39- THE CIRCUS PANORAMA(BATH)



On the 21st of September I got out of my bed while the sun was shining with a glorious morning light and I ventured to get one shot(painting) of the Circus done. I arrived at around 10.15am at an interesting spot right in the middle of the park at the Circus and decided to paint a good view of an area in which the sun had illuminated part of the grass to almost...

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The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career 33, 34 & 35

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NUMBER 33- AROUND THE ROYAL THEATRE BEFORE THE RAIN



Around the Royal Theatre Before The Rain, Acrylic on Board, 40cm x 20cm, 2009




The painting won the Plein Air Plus prize at The Bath Prize in 2009


Now, if there's been any single painting that has opened up so many opportunities for me during my career so far, it is this little one! It was the year 2009 and things were starting to go from bad to...

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The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career (29, 30)

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NUMBER 29- St Paul's Panoramic View



St Paul's Panoramic View, 44" x 20", Oil on Canvas, 2011 (Commission)


I was pleased to get this commission for two reasons, the first being, I just really love St Paul's as a building, I think it is architecture at it's magnificent best! Then secondly because it came from the fact that the client had seen my painting of The Royal Crescentand loved the way I...

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The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career 20

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Number 20-The Royal Crescent bathed in the spring sun




This painting of the Royal Crescent in Bath was done for my Bath Group show in May last year at The Bath Gallery. I went to Bath to do a study in graphite and then I took loads of pictures too. I came back to London with all the reference material and embarked on this piece, which is my largest painting of a place in Bath.

It is such an...

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