ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING — oil on canvas
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The face of Homelessness Charing Cross Road, 36" x 48", Oil on canvas, 2011
This guy is one of the people I randomly meet on the streets. Sometimes it's just impossible to resist asking if a sketch could be done when one sees a face with so much character like this guy has. I saw him way back in 2009, I think, and after asking politely he agreed...
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Affordable Art Fair Bath Experience cityscape commission exhibition figures landscape oil on canvas panorama rain The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career
St Paul's Panoramic View, 44" x 20", Oil on Canvas, 2011 (Commission)
I was pleased to get this commission for two reasons, the first being, I just really love St Paul's as a building, I think it is architecture at it's magnificent best! Then secondly because it came from the fact that the client had seen my painting of The Royal Crescentand loved the way I...
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exhibition figurative homeless oil oil on board oil on canvas people portraits The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career
The Face of Homelessness Kings Road (Scarlet Solitude) 16" x 20", Oil On Canvas, 2011
The whole story about this one can be read HERE- It was a painting I did entirely from a sketch of a Homeless guy I saw on Kings Road last year. I used the Zorn Palette (Whiite, Cadmium Red, Yellow Orche and Ivory Black) and it was done Alla Prima. I worked in full...
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NUMBER 25-Evening Light, Leadenhall Market II, 24" x 30", Oil on Canvas, 2011
Both paintings featured in this post are two of my best spots in London. Leadenhall Market is an amazing structure and has its beauty at anytime of the day. I love it best at evening light and having painted it once before I decided to embark on a larger piece for a group exhibition I had last year at Enid Lawson...
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AFRO SERIES Awards charcoal dust exhibition figurative graphite oil on canvas portraits rush hour Sharmina Karim The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career watercolour paper
AFRO XXII
AFRO XXII, Charcoal/Graphite, 10" x 8", 2009
This is one of my drawings that show the beauty of natural hair. It's one of my favourites! The model I used was a very good friend of mine. Because it was purely one of those pieces that I chose to do, I altered her facial features a bit to suit the purpose of the piece. Sometimes I do this especially if the person doesn't want to be...