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

Old friends and their sketches, 2003-5

May 15, 2009 • graphite • life painting • oil on canvas • oil sketch • sketches

These are some real oldies of sketches I did of friends I worked with. It was more of informal education and I had to motivate and demonstrate to them how to do quick sketches. Here you can see three pictures. One is an oil sketch I did for one of the greatest pool players I have ever come by and the other two where given as Christmas presents in the end, after the demonstrations. I tried to get...

Josh in sleep mode XI, Oil base pencil, A4 Sketch pad, 2009

March 06, 2009 • A4 daler-rowney sketch pad • josh • oil on canvas • sleeping mode

Another one of Josh in sleep mode, this time he kept on changing "gears" so I went along with the flow.

This was sketched with a soft oil base pencil in my A4 Sketchbook.

AFRO XVIII, 8" x 10", acylic/oil on canvas, 2008

November 24, 2008 • acrylic • AFRO SERIES • oil on canvas

Number 18, Funny enough I started this piece in 2003 and it has been lying in the corner of my studio for years. I picked it up and "freshened" it up a bit and it becomes the 18th in my Afro series.

The emphasis of this series is on the variety and beauty of natural black hair.

2 studies of the horse fields around Belvedere, oil on canvas board, 12" x 12"

August 16, 2008 • horsefields Belvedere • landscape painting • oil on canvas

I marched out of the house this morning to get some plein air studies done of the horsefields around Belvedere. I even moet the owner of the the land and horses, he said his father owned the land sibnce the 50's, what a heritage to retain!!

Both lasted a hour each. it was a nice experience and I'll love to keep this going.

Rush Hour III, oil on canvas, 80 x 100cm

October 08, 2007 • oil on canvas • rush hour • train • tube • underground

This is another series on my Rush Hour series, this particular one got accepted for the finals of the under 35 category in the Royal Institute of Oil Painters 2007 exhibition to be held at the Mall Galleries.

I really enjoy these Rush Hour paintings because they are the experiences I go through everyday on the tube and I know what is like to be part of that "rat race feel". We all go head long in...