ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING — landscape painting

Bath Experience VIII (shots on the site) Dec 1-3, 2009

December 07, 2009 • acrylic • Bath Experience • cityscape • landscape painting • me • plein air

These are 5 shots of the 5 different paintings I attempted in the cold at Bath from the 1st of December to the 3rd of December, last week. Hope to elaborate more on each, if time allows as I'm also preparing for a Christmas break with my family to Japan.

@photo by Femi Jaiyeola

..getting a clearer view around the Weir

@photo by Megan Kelland

Too cold for comfort at Queens Square

...frozen strokes at Ki...

War Memorial, All Saints Church Belvedere, 8" x 12", Acrylic on Canvas board, 2009

November 26, 2009 • acrylic • canvas board.me • landscape painting • plein air

Everyone wants to paint autumn scenes and I wasn't going to be left out. I have always noticed this lovely war memorial at All Saints Church, Belvedere, Kent and I always wanted to paint around this area. I like the old twisty trees and the faded rustic beauty of the church. So I decided to take this on this morning from around 9.30am to 12.30 in the afternoon. One of the ladies that works in the...

Bath Experience VII (Cleveland Place, oil on canvas, 60 x 30cm, 2009)

November 16, 2009 • Bath Experience • landscape painting • oil on canvas

This scene is facing Cleveland Place across London Road is busy road, as commuters go in and out of Bath most on their way to work. The light, once more cuts across this main road and reveals a interesting depth of Georgian Buildings all sun lit too, these type of buildings a very common feature of Bath are just a beauty to behold, it sort of combines the ancient and modern in a world heritage...

Bath ExperienceVI (Nelson's Place, Oil on Canvas, 60cm x 30cm, 2009)

November 14, 2009 • Bath Experience • landscape painting • oil on canvas

This is another painting I have done of Bath. One of the things that pulled me into this scene was the raking light that cut across London Road, Bath, just before Nelson's Place. To me, this is drama! I love the effect of light, especially when its course is forced to squeeze through little openings. This is exactly what happened here and the wall on the right then reveals a sort of abstract...

Bath Experience IV, 2009

October 07, 2009 • Bath Experience • cityscape • landscape painting • oil on canvas • The Bath Prize

This is another post on my experience in Bath. This scene actually caught my attention on the morning I was about to leave Bath. Before this encounter I had made up my mind on what scenes I was going to paint BUT then came the morning...........I was walking up to Queens Square and Lo and Behold!A beautiful shade caused by the morning sunlight hit against the lofty trees around Queen's Square and...