ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING — charcoal dust

Sketch of St Paul's, 14" x 19", Oil Base Pencil/Charcoal on paper, 2009

July 15, 2009 • charcoal dust • cityscape • oil base pencil • sketches

This is my second day out sketching in London, this time its the magnificent St Paul's Cathedral. It's a very imposing building and one of my favourites in London.

I had a a nice time sketching it but the weather wasn't that friendly as it kept changing from sunshine to rain drops, but towards the end it became nice and hot and almost too hot for comfort.

The sketch was done in oil base pencil and...

Royal Exchange Sketch, 18" x 14", Oil Base Pencil/Charcoal on paper, 2009

July 13, 2009 • charcoal dust • cityscape • oil base pencil • sketches

For the rest of this month, I'll be out and about in the City of London and the West End capturing landmark shots of the beautiful city.

Today I was at the Royal Exchange where I felt a bit daunted, sketching right in the middle of the busy city spot. But after a few lines, mistakes, nervousness and panics, I manged to settle down to sketch the Royal Exchange. I started at 13.04hrs and finished...

EMOTIONS XI, 7" x 7", Charcoal dust/Oil Base Pencil & Graphite, 2009

June 13, 2009 • charcoal dust • emotions • graphite • Kezia • oil base pencil • watercolour paper

This makes number 11 in my current Emotions series.

This is the "usual" tiny baby emotion-The model here is my newly born daughter, "Kezia" - she came on June 9th, 2009- 14.21hrs and weighed 3.2kg. This piece was done in charcoal dust, oil base pencil and graphite on watercolour paper.

EMOTIONS IX, 10" x 8", Charcoal dust, Oil base/Graphite Pencil on Heavy Watercolour paper, 2009

February 23, 2009 • charcoal dust • emmanuel adebayo • emotions • graphite • oil base pencil • watercolour paper

This makes number 9 in my current Emotion series.

The model here is my little boy "Josh".

You be the judge on the emotions here, I don't want to give anything away.......

This piece was achieved by first of all, ghosting and handling the charcoal dust as a watercolour, then blending it together with my fingers to give uniform tones. A medium oil base pencil was then used to put in basic lines,...

AFRO XXIV, 8" x 10", Mixed Media on Heavy Watercolour paper, 2009

January 29, 2009 • AFRO SERIES • charcoal dust • colored pencils • josh • liqitex slow-dri blending medium • oil base pencil

This is number 24 in my current Afro series- another experiment- I started off by mixing the charcoal dust with some Liquitex Slow Dri Blending medium(Never tried this just looking for effects)I didn't do any initial drawing just attacking the paper with my brush as I would approach a watercolour piece. Then when it was dry, I added more definite drawing and tone to the piece with the oil base...