ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING — sketches
Sketches on the tube and train
These are a few sketches I made on the tube last week, I particularly fell in love with the 2nd and 3rd couple on the tube on Saturday- they looked terrific! I regret wasting time before I made my decision to sketch but all along I was observing thier features, they spoke french they were simply amazing!Kimberly
sanguine coloured pencil sketches Small girl
This is Kimberly, my friend Dave at work kept being on my neck to sketch him the only recent picture he had of his daughter- to put in his room wall. So on Thursday last week with a sanguine coloured pencil I sketched it without grids in 2 hours ! He was really pleased with it!
Sketches on the train (Elephant and Castle to Clapham Common)
This woman was dresed in one of those traditional wears the Asian women put on. I couldn't resist. I also didn't want to get into trouble with her husband who was on my side. So I had to do it with the "hide and seek technique "- watch his movements in the window reflecting his image in front of me without turning my head. I was quite pleased with the result. She was busy reading an Asian...
Sketch on the train (Greenwich to Abbey Wood)
conte sketch pad sketches train
On my way back from work yesterday night I had to stand up, With my sketch pad in hand I made one sketch of a woman standing then when I had the opportunity to sit down I sketched this lad in front of me. He has some interesting features and I enjoyed the feel of the conte I used as I normally use biros this was a change for me. I showed him on his way out at Abbbey Wood, he looked a bit stunned!
Portrait of little boy
coloured pencil sketches small boy
I have a got a friend(Chrissey) at work, she always loves my pictures, she brought up this picture of a little boy she said was her grandson.
I loved the play opf light on his features and I made a 2 hour sketch of the picture she provided.
This seemed to be one the first times that I didn't need to scale the picture but I just went direct with intuitive measurements and it came out quite ok.
Chriss...