ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING

Learning by Sketching from Paintings in Galleries/Museums

January 07, 2011 • Anastasia Pollard • Mall Galleries • oil on board • portraits • RP • Velazquez

In this post I would like to highlight one of the ways I like to learn by sketching from paintings I love in galleries and Museums. If you love a particular painting, especially if it is a portrait, one of the ways of understanding how the artist went about it is to sketch it. Working in this way can really help to improve your understanding of how artists edit information and concentrate on what...

2 London Scenes both 12" x 16" in Acrylic.

January 05, 2011 • acrylic • Architecture • canvas board. • landscape painting • london • urban life

These are 2 other city scenes of London in acrylic. The Royal Exchange and St Paul's.

Summerlight, Royal Exchange, 12" x 16", Acrylic on Canvas, 2010- A blazing place to view and paint in the summer. The building takes on new refreshing colours and the surroundings are exciting too. I really like scenes like this because of the contrast between modern and traditional architecture, something very...

2 London Scenes both 10" x 12" in acrylic and oil.

January 04, 2011 • acrylic • landscape painting • london • oil on canvas • urban life

Summerlight Charing Cross Road, 10" x 12", Acrylic on Canvas, 2010

These are 2 scenes from the road I love best in London. Its's Charing Cross Road, I must have walked this road a "million times" since 1999. I'll mention a few reasons why I love it: It is home to my favourite art shop-Cass Arts, it has the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, A great Art book shop-Henry Pordes. Foyles, it...

Sketches on the bus, train and tube in December IV

December 31, 2010 • people • sketches

These are last of the sketches for 2010. I hope to be inspired by more wonderful looking people on the tube, train and bus. London is a place where you can see almost every type of face from all over the world from all works of life! The opportunity to sketch from life is amazing and by God's grace, I hope to keep this going in 2011!
Enjoy!

MAKING A MARK AWARDS-Adebanji wins The Painting Plein Air Plus Award 2010

December 30, 2010 • Awards • landscape painting • making a mark • me • oil on board • plein air • urban life

Painting in the cold snow around Chelsea- painting in progress, notice the bits with sketchy marks-once I got the sketch right, I just painted shape by shape till I covered the whole piece. I'll be posting the full details of this piece in the New Year.

I'm so happy to end the year with an Award that I really cherish. Earlier this year I won the Chelsea Riverside Competition, organised by Heatherle...