ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING — oil on canvas
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Bath Experience commission exhibition graphite Moleskine A4 oil on canvas The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career
This painting of the Royal Crescent in Bath was done for my Bath Group show in May last year at The Bath Gallery. I went to Bath to do a study in graphite and then I took loads of pictures too. I came back to London with all the reference material and embarked on this piece, which is my largest painting of a place in Bath.
It is such an...
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. people exhibition figurative figures london oil on canvas rain The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career
This painting was done in some of the worst conditions and circumstances I was facing at the time I did it last year. Things were going from bad to worse and I struggled to paint this piece for the Chelsea Art Fair last year. I knew I could do a large painting full of figures but I was also a bit timid and didn't know how the whole thing would work out. To...
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figurative oil on canvas people rush hour The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career
This painting gave me a great leap, I mean a great leap towards plunging into Art full time. It was painted slowly and carefully for about 6 months or so, combining it with my full time job at St Mungo's, and being a new father of a little boy who was only 1 year old at the time. I was painting from a really bad picture, that wasn't clear at all, so, I kept on inventing all...
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In this post I'll be showing the stages of completion from start to finish. This shows another technique I use when starting off these kind of crowded scenes. With This Rush Hour I started with an abstract acrylic opaque wash, I really wanted the finished painting to have a lot of density and that's why I used this technique.
Rush Hour II, Oil on Canvas, 80 x 120cm, 2007
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Affordable Art Fair children exhibition figurative figures oil on canvas ROI The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career
In Summer of 2009 an advert came out in The Artist magazine for an oil painting to be submitted no larger than 36" x 24" for a winning place in ROI exhibition of that year and for a mini profile in the November Issue of The Artist Magazine. I gave it a go and I really thank God, I won!
Summerlight Clapham Common, Oil on Canvas, 24" x 18", 2009
This painting took...