ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING

Sketches on the bus, train and tube in September I

September 20, 2011 • people • sketches

Back to my travel sketches after a long break! These sketches are my art life blood! If there's anything that keeps me in good form and shape when I paint-it's down to these sketches!

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"Every place, or situation, that you sketch has to be carefully observed for you to recreate it as a sketch. Therefore every sketch you do is increasing your knowledge and experience as a painter. I...

The Plein Air Brotherhood

September 06, 2011 • A and K Wilson Gallery • alla prima • exhibition • landscape • landscape painting • oil • oil on board • oil on canvas • plein air • Plein air Brotherhood • seascape

The effect of "like-minds"are powerful and when people with the same vision and drive come together to form a group the results are always explosive! The Plein Air Brotherhood is such a group. We came together to form this group because we believe so strongly in Plein Air work and the sheer joy that painting outdoor brings! Roy Connellygot the group going and growing, he says, he sees us pursuing...

"I don't need an umbrella....I love the rain" , 6" x 9", Mixed Media, 2011 (The Flying Moleskins)

August 31, 2011 • colored pencils • gouache • mixed media • the flying moleskins • watercolour • watercolour paper

This is my contribution to Vern's sketchbook. Its part of a Sketchbook Exchange I am currently taking part in called, "The Flying Moleskins" He said we could paint anything and around the time I was thinking of what to paint- It happened to be a time I was getting mesmerized by rain reflections on London streets.

I don't need an umbrella...I love the rain, 6" x 9", Mixed Media, 2011

So I...

"My Life is Messed Up" 7" x 5", mixed Media, 2011 (The Flying Moleskins)

August 25, 2011 • coloured pencil • gouache • homeless • mixed media • pen and ink • the flying moleskins • watercolour • watercolour paper

This was my contribution to Deans Sketchbook in a Sketchbook exchange, called Flying Moleskins, that I have participating in for the past year. He said we could put anything into his book and I always like to capture homeless people, so this was a great opportunity to express some of my deepest feelings for these folk. After working with them at St Mungo's for 9 years, I have met so many and...

Sketches on the train, tube and bus in August III

August 18, 2011 • people • sketches

More sketches! If there's one way on the face of the earth that one needs to take to get better at drawing, it's constant sketching! It's fun and it doesn't have to be perfect either but the good thing is, as one keeps sketching-the brain, hand and eye become better friends and as an artist we need them to be in perfect unity!

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"Although he was intelligent and witty, he...