ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING
At the Royal Watercolour Society Open Exhibition 2009.
bankside Gallery exhibition people. watercolour Royal Watercolour Society
I was at the private exhibition of the RWS Open Exhibition on Tuesday and although I arrived a bit late I got to meet with Richard Sorrell PRWS, The President and David Paskett VPRWS, The Vice President, they were both impressed about my work and David Paskett who I snapped with my painting below said it was one of his best paintings in the show, they both encouraged me right there and then to...
Sketches on the bus in February IX
More sketches, A few blunders, I got the proportion of my arms wrong but that's what its all about! Never say never!
Painting of Diana (Stage 3)
diana life painting oil on linen people portraits
I had the opportunity to paint from life today. I continued with another 3 hours on Diana.
I had to change the background completely because the other background wasn't showing the beauty of her long natural hair, and that was the very thing that prompted me to ask her to model for me in the first place. So I work like a robot to retouch the background and then settle for most of her garment and...
Sketches on the bus in February VIII
More people. Funny enough, I forgot my sketchbook today but I had some spare papers of about A5 size in my bag. What a relief, because without them the long bus journeys today would have been so boring and good enough I got some really intricate study sketches as there was so much traffic in the morning on the way to my studio.
I spent three and half hours commuting on the bus from Belvedere...
Sketches on the bus February VII
More sketches on bus. More people. No drama, a bit of a sleepy day on the bus.
