ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING — The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career
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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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figures oil on canvas people Pro Arte Award rush hour The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career underground
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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chelsea competition exhibition Heatherley School of Fine Art oil on board The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career
This painting meant so much to me because before this competition came up I had never set up to paint in the Chelsea area. Sometimes we don't seem to appreciate the area where we live or work and always look out to travel or paint somewhere else. But when Heatherleys and The Cheyne Walk Trustdecided to set up the competition and auction in aid of a...
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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...
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AFRO SERIES carbon pencil charcoal dust graphite oil base pencil The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career watercolour paper
This is one from my AFRO SERIES. I remember I was at Church on a Sunday afternoon and I went to the lobby where we normally relax between the morning service and evening service, and these lovely girls were helping themselves look good. I just took a number a shots while the plaiting took place, it was only later while looking through my archive of pictures did I realize this...