ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING
Bath Experience VII (Cleveland Place, oil on canvas, 60 x 30cm, 2009)
Bath Experience landscape painting oil on canvas
This scene is facing Cleveland Place across London Road is busy road, as commuters go in and out of Bath most on their way to work. The light, once more cuts across this main road and reveals a interesting depth of Georgian Buildings all sun lit too, these type of buildings a very common feature of Bath are just a beauty to behold, it sort of combines the ancient and modern in a world heritage...
Bath ExperienceVI (Nelson's Place, Oil on Canvas, 60cm x 30cm, 2009)
Bath Experience landscape painting oil on canvas
This is another painting I have done of Bath. One of the things that pulled me into this scene was the raking light that cut across London Road, Bath, just before Nelson's Place. To me, this is drama! I love the effect of light, especially when its course is forced to squeeze through little openings. This is exactly what happened here and the wall on the right then reveals a sort of abstract...
Highlights from The ROI Open Painting Evening at the Mall Galleries
life painting Mall Galleries ROI
ADEBANJI AND ANTONIO
There's nothing like being in the midst of like minded people! But to be in the midst of painters all painting is the crescendo of art for me! That's one of the things that made me tick at Art College. It has been quite a while that I have had such an opportunity, so I was really looking forward to this years ROI Open Painting Evening!
EVERYONE IN THE SPIRIT
The highlight of this...
Sketches on the train and tube in November V
More sketches of people on the trains and tube. Some of the key elements to really get a resemblance can be intense observation and trusting your hands to put down exactly what your eyes see. I must say, for public transport sketches of people, each artist has to find a "personal shorthand" way of editing the vast information you see in faces and just highlight the essentials. Easier said than...
Sketches on the train and tube in November IV
More journeys for me recently means more sketches. One of the guys in these sketches (Asian) actually asked me to sketch him after he was entertained by watching me sketch the tall guy, sitting and reading in one of the sketches.
Interesting journeys!
