ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING

EMOTIONS IX, 10" x 8", Charcoal dust, Oil base/Graphite Pencil on Heavy Watercolour paper, 2009

charcoal dust emmanuel adebayo emotions graphite oil base pencil watercolour paper

This makes number 9 in my current Emotion series.





The model here is my little boy "Josh".

You be the judge on the emotions here, I don't want to give anything away.......

This piece was achieved by first of all, ghosting and handling the charcoal dust as a watercolour, then blending it together with my fingers to give uniform tones. A medium oil base pencil was then used to put in basic lines,...

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Sketches on the bus in February VI

people sketches



LINK TO MY BIRO SKETCHING KIT
More people today. One of the guys I sketched was quite pleased, I showed him the sketch and I'll be sending him the sketch tonight.




Another Sketch has a couple who seem to know I as sketching them but didn't bother to ask to have a look.

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Sketches on the bus in February V

me people sketches



These are the recent sketches I have done, all yesterday on the bus.




There are some self portraits here too!




Sketching the sketcher is also my passion, when the odd model fails to surface.

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EMOTIONS VIII, 10" x 8", Graphite on Heavy watercolour paper, 2009

drawing emotions graphite mechanical pencil watercolour paper

This is number 8 in my current series on emotions.







The emphasis is on human emotions. I played a lot of American Snooker and Pool with my friends when I used to work with St Mungos. I co-ordinated activities and games, one of those games was Monday night pool- it was highly competitive and emotions flew high as there were great prizes at stake and prestige to loose or gain, a new champion to emerge...

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Tooley Street(London Bridge Side) Accepted in the Royal Watercolour Society Open Exhibition 2009 SOLD

London Bridge mixed media Royal Watercolour Society watercolour


Last year I did this post on this piece and I am going to quote exactly what I wrote on that post-

"It was one morning early this month 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 is now done. Sometimes we see places we love but just can't get down to painting them,...

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