ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING
Old friends and their sketches, 2003-5
graphite life painting oil on canvas oil sketch sketches
These are some real oldies of sketches I did of friends I worked with. It was more of informal education and I had to motivate and demonstrate to them how to do quick sketches. Here you can see three pictures. One is an oil sketch I did for one of the greatest pool players I have ever come by and the other two where given as Christmas presents in the end, after the demonstrations. I tried to get...
Josh in Sleep mode XIV, A3 sketchbook, Sanguine/Sepia dust/Coloured pencil, 2009
A3 sketchpad colored pencils josh sketches sleeping mode
This afternoon while working on a commission that I was using sanguine and sepia dust, he fell asleep beside me. So I quickly took a break and tried to capture another sleep mode. I think I ended up pouring too much dust on the paper and it was hard to lift off.
Rough Sketch of Grandad, A3 sketchbook, graphite, 2009
A3 sketchpad commission graphite rough sketch
I have a blog dedicated to black and whites to colour where I experiment transforming my sketches into colour with no colour...
Sketches on the Bus in May IV
More people! All sketched yesterday. There are 4 more which are not included here I'll be posting them soon as I can, didn't have time to scan them before making a presentation with them.
So the one pagers in brown continue and I have tried to join them together to preserve the vertical space of scrolling down.
Sketches on the bus in May III
Only two one pagers today but worth it, even though they only stayed on for moments.
