ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING — oil on board

Bath Marathon 4 PART 2

November 11, 2010 • alla prima • Bath Experience • Bath Marathon • landscape painting • oil on board • plein air

The Bath Marathon continues and these are more shots of me at it! I tried in most of these to keep out of sight, so you can see the paintings without my distracting face but I ended up sneaking in again!

166-Road Beside the Royal Crescent, from Upper Church Street- The light was brilliant lighting the figures and trees, this was real fun!

167-Far End of Royal Crescent, Sun Bathed- This was a great...

Meeting the INSPIRATIONAL PETER BROWN

October 25, 2010 • exhibition • landscape painting • me • oil on board • Peter Brown • plein air

Adebanji and Peter Brown at Messum's

There's never an end to learning and sometimes artists keep looking for inspiration everywhere. I find myself pouring through art books, artist monographs, art history books and books in libraries, walking through galleries for endless hours, researching on the internet and walking everywhere with my eyes WIDE open to everything and anything around me. This has...

Bath Marathon III Day 7, 8 and 9

October 04, 2010 • 6 x 8 • alla prima • Bath Experience • Bath Marathon • landscape painting • oil on board • plein air • urban life

Here marks the end of Bath Marathon III! All Glory to God! I'm getting closer and closer to the 200 mark for the exhibition at the Bath Gallery in November. If you are in or around the UK in November, don't miss it if you love OIL PAINTINGS or the Beauty of Plein air work. I'll update you with the exact dates asap.

143-This was a cold morning from the top of St Stephens Road, from there a nice sky...

Bath Marathon III Day 4, 5 and 6

September 30, 2010 • 6 x 8 • alla prima • Bath Experience • Bath Marathon • landscape painting • oil on board • plein air • urban life

More shots from day 4-6 of the third marathon. The highlight of this was the Circus!

127-132.1-I never planned to make this piece of the Circus a panoramic 6" x 48" piece. I started the first one and I asked myself, Why not another? I could do this because the Circus in Bath is just like a circle with three trees in the middle. As I started this painting one of the residents came out to give me a...

Bath Marathon III Day 3 and 4

September 29, 2010 • 6 x 8 • Bath Experience • Bath Marathon • landscape painting • oil on board • oil sketch • urban life

These are shots from day 3 and 4 of the 3rd Marathon.

116. It was so hot when I started this, I had to take off 3 layers of clothing, that's the unpredictable British weather for you! I had the staff from Bartlett Properties come out to offer me a cool glass of water when I finished, they said they had been watching me from start to finish!

117,118- You can't paint Bath without painting Milsom...