ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING — The Anders Zorn Palette

The Face of Homelessness, Southeastern Trains

December 12, 2012 • alla prima • FACE OF HOMELESSNESS • homeless • london • oil on board • portraits • Southeastern trains • The Anders Zorn Palette • tombow wash pens • `sketches

The Face of Homelessness, Southeastern Trains, Oil on Board, 2012

This is another in my series of the Face of homelessness. This was a homeless guy I encountered on the trains. His face was just simply irresistible, I was drawn but the flow of his hair, his strong and prominent cheek bones and his beard.

The original Sketch I did on the trains-this was done with a Black BIC Ball point Pen and the...

The Face of Homelessness, Charing Cross Rd II

December 07, 2012 • alla prima • FACE OF HOMELESSNESS • homeless • london • oil on canvas • people • portraits • The Anders Zorn Palette • `sketches

This a guy I have painted and sketched before-but I decided to revisit him and add him to the series of the "Face of Homelessness". I will never forget the day we met at Charing Cross road outside the National Portrait Gallery. He had his bags and a few belongings around him. It was more of a scary sight but deep inside I could see he had the heart of angel, I got talking to him and he sounded...

The Face of Homelessness, Bath

December 04, 2012 • alla prima • big issue seller • FACE OF HOMELESSNESS • homeless • oil on board • The Anders Zorn Palette

Face of Homelessness, Bath, Oil on Board, 12" x 12", 2012

This post mainly features on my keen interest in depicting interesting faces. All year I have been working on this project of homeless peoples faces and I'll be sharing the ideas behind this and sometimes where I can, I'll document some stage by stage thoughts that go through my head while working on them.

Same Model- sat for me for my Big...

The "OIL PORTRAIT SKETCH"-My Free Workshop at Cass Arts

March 20, 2012 • demo • oil sketch • people • sketches • The Anders Zorn Palette • workshop

Cass Arts have been running free workshops every weekend this season and on Saturday I going to be running the show from 12-4pm. In collaboration with Winsor & Newton , who will be supplying all the materials for the day-I'll be demonstrating how I convert my black and white sketches to colour. It's all about the portrait sketch.

I have copied and pasted this from the Cass Arts website
LEARN TO PAINT...