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

TEARS OF JOY (REVISITED), 19" x 13", Watercolour, 2008

January 20, 2009 • different strokes from different folks • Karin Jurick • watercolour

This is all I can say, Its tears of Joy!

I'm short of words.......................

And I am still short of words, even with what I have witnessed today!
This work was inspired by the day he won the election....stay tuned for my next posts.

This was my entry last year in Karin Juricks Different Strokes from different Folks.

National Gallery(Charing Cross side), 11" x 9, mixed media, 2008

December 05, 2008 • carbon pencil • goauche • landscapes • mixed media • National Gallery • watercolour

I was just coming out of Charring Cross Station yesterday afternoon and I saw the National Portrait Gallery just peeping out in blazing sunlight from this dark shadowed road way, with so many people out and about as usual in the London west end. I instantly fell in love! Now I am happy I've caught with watercolour, carbon pencil, coloured pencil and gouache on Winsor and Newton Cotman paper...

Notting Hill Gate( Central Side), 9" x 7", mixed media, 2008

November 22, 2008 • coloured pencil • goauche • mixed media • watercolour • white charcoal pencil

After my recent experiment with watercolour in the last Afro Series, I am beginning to become a bit more comfortable with the medium and I seem to enjoy its unpredictability.

Anyway being inspired by the current wonderful site of urban sketchers I have produced this piece to catch a certain place with some atmospheric effects my goal.

I have used watercolour, gouache, white charcoal and coloured...

AFRO XVII, 13" x 10", Mixed Media, 2008

November 21, 2008 • acrylic • AFRO SERIES • carbon pencil • mixed media • watercolour • white charcoal pencil

Number 17 in my current Afro Series.

(detail)

The emphasis is on the variety and beauty of black natural hair.

The model here is a lovely girl that attends Sunday School in my church.

I have used acrylic washes to start, then watercolour, after which my carbon pencil, wax crayons and white charcoal pencil came in handy-I almost ruined this piece, sometimes one needs to know when to STOP!

AFRO SERIES VII, 9" x 10", watercolour, 2008

September 25, 2008 • AFRO SERIES • watercolour

This is my seventh in the AFRO series. I just went straight ahead with 2 watercolour brushes, paint and water, no more, no less.

This one is purely experimental.

The emphasis is the beauty of black hair.