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

Highlights of The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2013 (Main Category)

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The 126th Annual Exhibition was opened by The new President, Ian Cryer who succeeds Peter Wileman, who had been President since 2008. The Opening Speech and awards were given out by the eminent Historian Dr David Starkey.

Dr David Starkey speaks about the history of the ROI and some reasons why the Institute gained it's Royal status.
I am happy to say that those two paintings in the middle of Dr...

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Featured in The Artist Magazine December Issue

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A Cut out of the 3 page article in The Artist Magazine December 2013


I love sketching on public transport, the streets and anywhere I get to see faces!

In the Current December Issue of The Artist Magazine, I have a 3 page article on how I transform my sketches to completed paintings.

A lot of people sketch but sometimes they wonder what to do with the sketches after turning out loads of them in their...

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Bath Saturday Antique & Flea Market, Bath, 6" x 8", Oil on Gessoed Mountboard

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Bath Saturday Antique & Flea Market, 6" x 8", Oil on Gessoed Mountboard.
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This is one from my Bath Marathon Series. I never expected to see an Antique Market on the morning I painted this but once I launched out and caught a sight of it, that was it!



Adebanji painting the Bath Saturday Antique & Flea market

I really enjoyed the colours of all the top of the...

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Kidz, Life, Art and Stuff II, 8" x 8", Oil on Board

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KLAAS II-Kezia says a prayer before her breakfast

I was really a bit to anxious to paint this piece, that my impatience almost ruined the piece. I got lost in the lines and the drawing and whenever the drawing goes wrong in any painting of this nature....the doom is quite near! But thank God, I rescued it in the end by cooling down and focusing on what actually went wrong. I was so wrapped up in...

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Kidz, Life, Art and Stuff I, 8" x 8", Oil on Board

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 INTRODUCTION

Hey!! I'm really thrilled! It's June! A month of victory! The month I got married! Yes! And I'm gonna be starting this new series on "Kidz, Life, Art and Stuff"- It's a visual documentary of my observations as a dad at home with the kidz!

Last year I was at home with them for 7 months while my wife worked at Three Bridges-I had to move all my painting gear to my house, during that...

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