ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING

Urban Shadow Highlights- Series 8-12 (5 paintings) Oil on board

May 18, 2013 • Adebanji Alade • alla prima • figures • Harpenden • light and shade • london • oil on board • oil on gessoed card • people • plein air • public transportation • Rickshaw • studio painting • Taxis • Urban Shadow Highlights

In all these paintings, the main subject is LIGHT! Once there's light, there's bound to be shadows! I love highlights and shadows!

The effect they have in urban space and settings is what this retrospective series of 5 paintings (mainly of London) is all about.

Light has colour, it has atmosphere and it has a life of it's own! The ability to capture this remains the task and duty of the artist,...

Evening Light, Whistler Statue, Chelsea Embankment (The Process)

May 13, 2013 • Adebanji Alade • alla prima • chelsea • Chelsea Painter • Chelsea Riverside • daily paintworks • demo • london • oil on gessoed musuem mount board • plein air • plein air demonstration • Statue • tips on plein air


Evening Light, Whistler Statue, Chelsea Embankment, oil on gessoed mountboard, 6" x 8"

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I was determined to paint on an evening when the light was brilliant around the River Thames and the Chelsea Embankment. I thought I was going to go a bit further in search of a scene to paint when I suddenly got struck by the light hitting the Whistler Statuealong the...

A Marathon of Sketches on London's Public Transport May I

May 13, 2013 • 150 years on the underground • A6 daler-rowney sketch book • Adebanji Alade • ball point pen • london • sketch tutorials • tips on sketching people on public transport • tombow wash pens • `sketches

Enjoy and travel along with me as you go through these sketches all done on either the tube, train, bus or bus stops.

I am always armed with my sketchbook, ball point pen and a grey TOMBOW wash pen.

Anyone that catches my attention gets into my books- Sometimes I get to sketch the same people over and over again!

It's a great experience! I get to talk to people, share what I do and sometimes I end up...

Urban Shadow Highlights VI & VII (Bath Marathon Plein Air)

May 09, 2013 • 6 x 8 • Adebanji Alade • alla prima • Bath Experience • Bath Marathon • cityscape • landscape painting • oil on board • oil on gessoed musuem mount board • outdoor painting • plein air • Urban Shadow Highlights

These are the final two paintings from my retrospective series of 7 paintings that emphasize the beauty of shadows and raking highlights in an urban setting. All the paintings in this series were done en plein air (outdoor) in Bath. Because it was a great task of finishing these 212 paintings under a short period of time I called it my Bath Marathon, because it stretched me to the limits but I...

Urban Shadow Highlights V (Bath Marathon Plein air)

April 30, 2013 • 6 x 8 • Adebanji Alade • alla prima • Bath Experience • Bath Marathon • cityscape • landscape painting • oil on board • oil on gessoed musuem mount board • outdoor painting • plein air • Urban Shadow Highlights

This is number 5 in the current retrospective series of paintings that show the effect of light and shadows in urban space. All these paintings are of streets and places in the City of Bath. It's a wonderful city and the sand stone buildings are always beautiful under the light!

Urban Shadow Highlights V, 6" x 8", Oil on Board

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A lot of people ask me what my...