Tips Blog — London

HOT SHOT 29-My Landscape Process and a Workshop in London

Adebanji Alade Announcements landscape workshop London workshop

Landscape Workshop with Adebanji Alade

Hi guys,

I will be having a workshop in London next Saturday on “Everything I know about painting a Landscape”.

Please click HERE for all the details

MY LANDSCAPE PROCESS

Below, I have a demonstration of my landscape process using the Outside-In Technique. I start from sketching and then I move into making the sketch a bit more clearer. Once the sketch is solid enough, I go into painting very bold shapes which gradually become fine tuned towards the end.

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HOT SHOT 14- LET WHO YOU ARE SHOW THROUGH IN YOUR SKETCHES

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This is another great hot-shot! Here I’ll be sharing a little bit about the concept of letting who you are show through your sketches. Every artist has something special about them, something that makes them unique.

This part of us should be showing through in our sketches! My last post was about Squinting and seeing shapes, click HERE if missed this post.

 

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HOT SHOT 11- SKETCH WHAT YOU SEE and NOT WHAT YOU KNOW about WHAT YOU SEE.

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It’s great to get into my Hot Shots again!!!  If this is your first time here, this is where I share my tips on sketching! I call the tips-Hot Shots! This Hot Shot has a very long title-and that’s the only way I could put it!

I say this to art students and sometimes I get that ‘look-back’. They look back and say, “but I know that!” But it’s one thing to know it and it’s another thing, to make sure one practices what one knows!

So lets get into it but if you missed HOT SHOT 10 which focused on the structure of whatever you plan to sketch, click HERE

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HOT SHOT 6- MAKE SKETCHING A DAILY HABIT

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We are getting closer to the demos now and I have almost exhausted the preliminary intros, but just before we get into the  demos and other great things ahead, I would like to share with you, my HOT SHOT number 6-Which is MAKE IT A DAILY HABIT!!!

If you missed HOT SHOT 4 & 5, please click HERE

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