ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING — oil on canvas
NANA Lawson
This woman is inspirational I have decided to paint her on her 60th birthday! She is the one one who takes care of all new born babies in my church and she also is the chief cleaner in my church. Her ministry in outstanding. Her faithfulness is admirable.
God bless her.
I had to finish this under 4 days to meet the deadline for this saturday when her grandchildren would present it to her.
Recent self portrait- My struggles
blaze and shade oil on canvas self portrait
I have always struggled with self- portraits and this one was no exception - I often always get the top of my head wrong or some line or the other.
This time I had it in mind to do three heads in one piece. I have been inspired by Robert Liberace and and Alex Powers, when it came to taking this work on. I kept on loooking for the right technique or composition plan to tie the three heads toghether...
Painting of my friend Francisco
light and shade oil on canvas painting portraits
I painted this portrait from a photo I took of my friend where I work I had to switch off the lights and had only one source of light -a tungsten bulb spotlight. I wanted to create a kind of mystery around his life-So I titled it "creepy shadows" or simply "creep".
It is an oil on canvas and it measures 120cm by 80cm.