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

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,...

EMOTIONS VIII, 10" x 8", Graphite on Heavy watercolour paper, 2009

February 19, 2009 • drawing • emotions • graphite • mechanical pencil • watercolour paper

This is number 8 in my current series on emotions.

The emphasis is on human emotions. I played a lot of American Snooker and Pool with my friends when I used to work with St Mungos. I co-ordinated activities and games, one of those games was Monday night pool- it was highly competitive and emotions flew high as there were great prizes at stake and prestige to loose or gain, a new champion to emerge...

EMOTIONS VII, 8" x 10", Sanguine dust/pencil on Museum Mount Cardboard, 2009

February 14, 2009 • berimbau • EBay • emotions • museum mount cardboard • sanguine dust • sanguine oil base pencil

This is number 7 in my current Emotions series.

I recently sketched this guy in one of my previous posts.

These are some of the procedures I take when doing these drawings:

Here I have used the sanguine dust with a ghosting technique applied to the board with tissue paper and carefully I have used a an eraser to take out highlights as if I was painting with white.

Here I start to add detail with the...

EMOTIONS VI, Mixed Media, 10" x 8", 2009

January 20, 2009 • coloured pencil • emotions • mixed media • pastel • watercolour • wax crayons

I was divinely inspired to do this piece this morning while I knelt down with my little boy Josh in morning prayer. I let him pray and he prayed those simple lovely prayers that children so innocently pray about...bless mummy, bless daddy, bless mummy's baby(because Ruth my wife is pregnant) bless auntie Funmis baby(because my sister is pregnant too)....that's all I can remember.

And as emotions...

EMOTIONS V, Oil based pencil/Sanguine & Sepia dust, 8" x 10", 2009 SOLD

January 12, 2009 • emotions • mechanical pencil • oil base pencil • sanguine dust • sepia dust

This guy is one of the great buskers around, these are the guys that play on the trains and tubes to make music while the commuters drop a few coins in appreciation. I worked with him at St Mungos and he was very much interested in art too, he worked in coloured pencils.

He makes number 5 in my current emotion series, which is all about human emotions.

I started this by ghosting the dust on the...