ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING — museum mount cardboard

Homeward Bound (Majidun Waterside), 10" x 8", Mixed Media on Museum Board, 2009

July 09, 2009 • acrylic • African Influence • biro • different strokes from different folks • Karin Jurick • museum mount cardboard • wax crayons

This is my entry into this Karin Juricks DSfDF. The original reference was a lady rowing- I had to think long, on what to do with this one as I didn't get a buzz from the blues. Then I remembered I lived right in front of a waterside in Lagos, Nigeria for 3 years and I'd wake up and see women rowing to and fro from place to place and their main occupation was to get their boats out as far as...

Kezia in Sleep Mode III, 8" x 10", Sanguine, 2009

June 23, 2009 • coloured pencil • Kezia • museum mount cardboard • sketches • sleeping mode

Another Quick shot of Kezia in sleep mode before she changed gears!

This was done with Sanguine coloured pencil on museum mount board.

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...