ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING — pastel

EMOTIONS VI, Mixed Media, 10" x 8", 2009

January 20, 2009 • coloured pencil • emotions • mixed media • pastel • watercolour • wax crayons

I was divinely inspired to do this piece this morning while I knelt down with my little boy Josh in morning prayer. I let him pray and he prayed those simple lovely prayers that children so innocently pray about...bless mummy, bless daddy, bless mummy's baby(because Ruth my wife is pregnant) bless auntie Funmis baby(because my sister is pregnant too)....that's all I can remember.

And as emotions...

AFRO SERIES IV, 14" x 21", Pastel/oil base pencil, 2008

September 18, 2008 • AFRO SERIES • oil base pencil • pastel

This is the 4th in the Afro series. This pose was naturally taken in to by the model.............I thought the pose she took was brilliant!

The Builder, 11" x 14", Pastel/Oil base pencil, 2008

September 16, 2008 • coloured pencil • pastel • people • sketches

I met this guy recently at a building site and he looked immediately fantastic! I couldn't resist asking if I could paint or sketch him. He had little time available, so with his consent, I snapped him and worked on it three days after in my sketch pad.

I really couldn't stop looking at him. Almost reminded me of some figures in the ancient times!

Afro Series III

September 15, 2008 • AFRO SERIES • coloured pencil • pastel

This is the latest Afro series done in Pastel and coloured pencil. I almost got carried away by the overall design and not the hair but I'll be back to basics in the next one

Emotions, 15" x 11", Mixed Media, 2008

September 09, 2008 • acrylic • coloured pencil • emotions • ink • pastel • people • sketches • watercolour

Trapped indoors due to a continuous nagging headache, since Friday last week. I can't go out to sketch today, seems I need to slow down!

Well, I devise a plan, I get some old sketches and take it out on them, with all my emotions!

This was completed on canson pastel paper, with ink, coloured pencils, pastels, gouache, acrylic and watercolour...........