ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING — watercolour
My Favourites at The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2014
Adebanji Alade charcoal figurative Mall Galleries oil portraits Royal Society of Portrait Painters RP watercolour
The selection committee are all top professionals and...
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Awards chelsea art society coloured pencil exhibition The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career watercolour
This piece highlights a road, I can almost, if it was possible, walk through it, blind-folded! It has hosts the very popular Leicester Square station, National Portrait Gallery and a number of theatres. The Theatre I captured here with its artificial lights interposing the late evening light in the atmosphere of a busy London Street is Wyndham's Theatre,...
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chalk pastel coloured pencil exhibition gouache josh Patchings Art Exhibition portraits The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career watercolour wax crayons
I won't write too much about this piece here because the whole story about how I created it from start to finish can be seen on this link HERE.
DAY DREAMING, 13” x 10” Mixed Media(watercolour, coloured pencil, wax crayons, chalk pastel, 2008)
The work was chosen as part of the Patching's Art Competition organised by The Artist's Magazinein 2008 and a nice guy bought it! It...
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coloured pencil gouache london mixed media The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career watercolour wax crayons
I remember it was one morning early in September 2008 as I was passing through London Bridge, that I caught a sight of this view-It was enchanting- I was only armed with my digital camera - and that was it! One shot and the painting was done. Sometimes we see places we love but just can't get down to painting them, but this time I made sure this one...
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coloured pencil gouache ink The Story Behind 40 works that changed my career watercolour wax crayons
Some people may want to know why I am featuring these works. It's a way of documenting some of the works that I have done in the past few years before I celebrated my 40th Birthday in February. I'll be featuring these 40 works and some stories of how they were made, where they were exhibited and the effect they had on my career.
This was piece captured on Fleet...