ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING

Highlights of The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhbition (Winsor & Newton Young Artists/Under 35yrs)

December 21, 2013 • exhibition • london • Mall Galleries • oil • Oil painting • ROI • winsor and newton

This is another review of the ROI Annual Exhibition at The Mall Galleries, which is a bit late this year as the exhibition closes today! But for for those of you who couldn't make it and for those of you far far away...this is post highlights few of the paintings in the Under 35 category that got my attention.

They are young painters with so much potential and I know when I say young, some people...

Highlights of The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2013 (Main Category)

December 13, 2013 • acrylic • cityscape • exhibition • figurative • landscape • Mall Galleries • oil • oil on board • oil on canvas • portraits • ROI • still life

The 126th Annual Exhibition was opened by The new President, Ian Cryer who succeeds Peter Wileman, who had been President since 2008. The Opening Speech and awards were given out by the eminent Historian Dr David Starkey.

Dr David Starkey speaks about the history of the ROI and some reasons why the Institute gained it's Royal status.
I am happy to say that those two paintings in the middle of Dr...

Featured in The Artist Magazine December Issue

November 23, 2013 • A6 daler-rowney sketch book • alla prima • black and white to colour • colour transformations • figurative • oil • oil on board • portraits • sketchbook • sketches • tombow wash pens


A Cut out of the 3 page article in The Artist Magazine December 2013

I love sketching on public transport, the streets and anywhere I get to see faces!

In the Current December Issue of The Artist Magazine, I have a 3 page article on how I transform my sketches to completed paintings.

A lot of people sketch but sometimes they wonder what to do with the sketches after turning out loads of them in their...

Discovering The City of York ( Part 3- The paintings and sketches complete)

November 12, 2013 • Adebanji Alade • Architectural Sketches • Architecture • Castle Museum • Discovering The City of York • drawing • graphite • Kentmere House Gallery • Micklegate • plein air • River Ouse • sketching • urban • York

This is the third part about my discovery of York and very soon I'll be having the exhibition of the paintings and sketches I produced at York. The exhibition starts today at 6pm.

Ann Petherick, who runs the gallery will be having a civic party with The Lord Mayor, Councillor Julie Gunnell. I'm excited and I have really been looking forward to this!

Now, back to the final part of my paintings and...

Discovering The City of York (Part 2-Plein Air)

August 29, 2013 • Adebanji Alade • Architectural Sketches • Architecture • Castle Museum • Discovering The City of York • drawing • graphite • Kentmere House Gallery • Micklegate • plein air • River Ouse • sketching • urban • York

Summerlight Micklegate Bar

This place is the place you can't miss at York! How could I possibly paint York without my own version of the Micklegate Bar! I arrived early on Saturday morning and set up beside one of the pubs which would come in handy in case I needed to use the loo. I hadn't been painting much before this, so I felt a bit timid, trying to impress myself and not just fully...