ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING

Wyndham's Theatre, Charing Cross Rd, 14" x 10", Mixed Media on Watercolour Paper, 2009

July 03, 2009 • acrylic • arches watercolour paper • gouache • watercolour

This piece brings again my love for energy, movement and life of the urban scenes! This view is from under the theatre as opposed to the front of it. I just loved the angled lines and artificial lighting under the theatre against the natural light around the theatre with the burst of buzzing human movement that is so common around the West End in London. The current show "Hamlet"is what is...

Sandwiched on the central line, 8" x 9.5", mixed media on paper, 2009

July 02, 2009 • acrylic • gouache • mixed media. people • rush hour • tube • watercolour • watercolour paper

If you ever try the tube during the Rush Hour in London, you'll surely experience being sandwiched! Sometimes you'll get a commuter who barely can raise their head or even breathe properly because of the cramped environment. I've been there and even though the scene I have captured here is not quite that serious but it shows how closed up we can get with other during rush hours!

This work was done...

Oil sketch of a Murky Pond, 8" x 7.5", Oil on canvas board, 2009

July 01, 2009 • alla prima • oil on canvas board • plein air • ponds

I have passed by this place once or twice but yesterday I wasn't going to let it be a dream again. This time it wasn't a face, people, horses or a beautiful landscape or an urban paradise that captured me but a simple murky pond by a canal waste nearby where I live. I took my plein equipment right down there and for approximately 90 mins I tried to capture its still reflections and sudden uprising...

Sketches on the train and tube in June VII

June 30, 2009 • people • sketches

All these sketches were done yesterday on my journeying on the train and tube. The weather was so hot yesterday that one couldn't survive the tube without water.