ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING — josh
Josh Painting, 8" x10", Charcoal/coloured pencil, 2008
charcoal. coloured pencil josh people sketches
As I continued working from home with Josh, he worked as I worked. So I decided to get him down for future purposes. you never know.................
Sketches of Josh in September VI
Now Josh has stated Nursery 3 days a week I'll be with him at home for 2 days a week. Working for home with him ain't easy as he is full of energy!
Managed to get these sketches as he watched the Lion King yesterday!
To show how uneasy it was after working on paintings and taking care of him, my wife came back and took a picture of us, fast asleep!
Sketches of Josh in sleeping mode in August I
Day Dreaming
coloured pencil Day Dreaming josh pastel watercolour wax crayons
I recently, have decided to get back into my watercolours and this time again I still cannot keep it as a pure watercolour. This turns out to be a mixed media work with chalk pastels, wax crayons and coloured pencils involved. I was particularly pleased with the outcome which wasn't quite what I planned to have it as, but when it came to the time to stop I had to hide the work before it got...
Two drawings of Josh
drawing graphite josh sketches
These are two drawings I did of my boy Josh, in Graphite on a very weak Cartridge paper, He had just started crawling and I wanted to catch those akward movements he was used too and sometimes stopping and giving up. It was kind of experimental.
I used the graphite in a watercolour way, by grinding the stick to powder and using a brush to paint from pictures I took of him.
One of the drawings was...