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

Grey Evening Light, Kings Road (17) Chelsea Marathon

May 23, 2014 • Adebanji Alade • buses • chelsea • Chelsea Marathon • Chelsea Painter • Chelsea Paintings • Kings Road • london • London Buses • oil • oil on board

This is number 17 in my current series of paintings and drawings of Chelsea.

It's all about the way I see Chelsea and the way the places that really interest me.

This time it's back to Kings Road! You wait for the number 19 Bus at Duke of York Square and none comes, until two come at the same time! That's a typical London Scene!

Grey Evening Light, Kings Road (17) Chelsea Marathon. 10" x 8", Oil on...

Sketches on the Bus, Train and Tube in November I

November 22, 2012 • A6 daler-rowney sketch book • ball point pen • buses • london • people • public transportation • Southeastern trains • tombow wash pens • train • tube • underground • `sketches

These are more of the sketches I do on a regular basis on public transport. I love this exercise and I think it is something anyone who embarks on long journeys around London should try and do at one time or the other. There are so many interesting faces on the bus, train and tube!

The human face remains to me a thing a wonder...I am on the train, I have just finished sketching an old man, then he...