ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING — figurative
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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 Face of Homelessness Kings Road (Scarlet Solitude) 16" x 20", Oil On Canvas, 2011
The whole story about this one can be read HERE- It was a painting I did entirely from a sketch of a Homeless guy I saw on Kings Road last year. I used the Zorn Palette (Whiite, Cadmium Red, Yellow Orche and Ivory Black) and it was done Alla Prima. I worked in full...
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AFRO XXII
AFRO XXII, Charcoal/Graphite, 10" x 8", 2009
This is one of my drawings that show the beauty of natural hair. It's one of my favourites! The model I used was a very good friend of mine. Because it was purely one of those pieces that I chose to do, I altered her facial features a bit to suit the purpose of the piece. Sometimes I do this especially if the person doesn't want to be...
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This painting was done in some of the worst conditions and circumstances I was facing at the time I did it last year. Things were going from bad to worse and I struggled to paint this piece for the Chelsea Art Fair last year. I knew I could do a large painting full of figures but I was also a bit timid and didn't know how the whole thing would work out. To...
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This painting gave me a great leap, I mean a great leap towards plunging into Art full time. It was painted slowly and carefully for about 6 months or so, combining it with my full time job at St Mungo's, and being a new father of a little boy who was only 1 year old at the time. I was painting from a really bad picture, that wasn't clear at all, so, I kept on inventing all...