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

Kidz, Life, Art and Stuff II, 8" x 8", Oil on Board

June 08, 2013 • Adebanji Alade • alla prima • children • figurative • Inside-Out Technique • Kezia • Kidz Life Art and Stuff • oil on board • people • The Anders Zorn Palette

KLAAS II-Kezia says a prayer before her breakfast

I was really a bit to anxious to paint this piece, that my impatience almost ruined the piece. I got lost in the lines and the drawing and whenever the drawing goes wrong in any painting of this nature....the doom is quite near! But thank God, I rescued it in the end by cooling down and focusing on what actually went wrong. I was so wrapped up in...

Kidz, Life, Art and Stuff I, 8" x 8", Oil on Board

June 01, 2013 • Adebanji Alade • alla prima • children • figurative • Inside-Out Technique • josh • Kidz Life Art and Stuff • oil on board • people • The Anders Zorn Palette

INTRODUCTION

Hey!! I'm really thrilled! It's June! A month of victory! The month I got married! Yes! And I'm gonna be starting this new series on "Kidz, Life, Art and Stuff"- It's a visual documentary of my observations as a dad at home with the kidz!

Last year I was at home with them for 7 months while my wife worked at Three Bridges-I had to move all my painting gear to my house, during that...

The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career 11

April 13, 2012 • Affordable Art Fair • children • exhibition • figurative • figures • oil on canvas • ROI • The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career

Number 11- Summerlight Clapham Common

In Summer of 2009 an advert came out in The Artist magazine for an oil painting to be submitted no larger than 36" x 24" for a winning place in ROI exhibition of that year and for a mini profile in the November Issue of The Artist Magazine. I gave it a go and I really thank God, I won!

Summerlight Clapham Common, Oil on Canvas, 24" x 18", 2009

This painting took...

Completed Portraits of Two Lovely Children, 30 x 40cm, oil on canvas, 2010

August 11, 2010 • children • commission • oil on canvas • portraits

Monty 30 x 40cm oil on canvas

I have finally completed the portraits of these two lovely children. I did their studies a while back but never got over to finish the portraits. Now they are complete and their parents are pleased with the results.

Gracie 30 x 40cm oil on canvas

Click HERE and HERE for the sketches and studies

These portraits were done in glaze layer by layer technique, which started...

Childhood Joys, 16" x 16", Brown and Sanguine coloured pencils, 2010

June 05, 2010 • children • commission • drawing • sanguine coloured pencil

This is a recent commission I completed and his parents were pleased with the result. I have actually drawn all other members of this family last year. Then this little boy was added to the family, his parents waited for him to gain some good stable features-evolving in to a boyish face and now he was ready for his portrait. Click HERE for the link to his dad's piece

I used three Faber Castell...