Category: Portraits

People painted by Adebanji Alade.

Adebanji Presents “Decoding DaVinci on The One Show, BBC One.

by Adebanji

This is for my international audience and those who might have missed this when it was aired on the 1st of February, 2019 on The One Show.

I really enjoyed this film because I was able to see the original Leonardo drawings right up close in the flesh. He was an addictive sketcher -so I used the experience to gain some real “master – student” infusion of inspiration. You can’t even imagine how thrilled I was to get my eyes and hands on his ORIGINALS!!!!!!

I visited the Royal collection in Windsor accompanied by Martin Clayton, The Leonardo Specialist, who oversees the 550 Leonardo Da Vinci drawings. We also visited the Diamond Light Research Centre located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire.

At The Diamond Light Research Centre, Leonardo’s drawings were put through a synchrotron to reveal hidden features in the Masters work. While at the Royal Collection the drawings were put under an Infra Red light. The results in both were mind-blowing!

An exhibition is going all round the country at the moment- CLICK HERE for details.

I also put my acrylic painting of Leonardo Da Vinci, through an Infra Red light at the Royal Collection and it revealed all my initial sketches in charcoal and the grid lines too….not something I would have loved to reveal….

I hope you enjoy this short film…..

                 Leonardo Da Vinci, Acrylic on Canvas, 12″ x 16″, 2018. £1,750.

NEW WORKSHOP: SKETCHING THE HUMAN FACE

by Adebanji

“EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT SKETCHING THE HUMAN FACE”- is my next workshop, it takes place on Saturday 14th of July. 9.30-5.30pm at the Art Room, Chelsea Academy, Lots Road, Chelsea. Click on the link below if you are interested, this is where I share everything I know with you, to help you improve your sketches of the human face, which will greatly improve your portraits, as every successful portrait starts with a successful sketch.
https://adebanji-alade.lpages.co/sketching-the-human-face/

Adebanji Alade’s Workshop: SKETCHING THE HUMAN FACE
Sketch of my sketch HERO-Adolph Menzel- These are the kind of sketches Adebanji will be showing  and demonstrating on the day.

ADEBANJI INTERVIEWS AND SKETCHES 2 SURVIVORS OF THE GRENFELL TOWER FIRE on The One show (BBC One)

by Adebanji

Adebanji Alade interviews 2 survivors of The Grenfell Tower Fire.

This is for my international audience and for those here in the UK, who may have missed this short clip when it was aired on The One Show (BBC One) on 13/06/18. It’s a year since this tragedy struck, in this short clip I go back to the area to interview and sketch two survivors (Natasha and Tiago) of the Grenfell Tower fire.

Adebanji Alade has 4 paintings in the ROYAL INSTITUTE OF OIL PAINTERS ANNUAL EXHIBITION

by Adebanji

These 4 paintings of mine are currently on show at the Mall Galleries from today till the 10th of December, 2017.

 

Alade-Adebanji-Creative-Progression
Creative Progression, 18″ x 14″, Oil on Board, 2017, £1,950.- These days the inspiration flows and there’s creative progression, everything works, I’m unstoppable and I love everything that is happening in the studio, I don’t want to leave, it’s ecstasy, I’m in the zone and this is when and where the masterpieces are born!

 

Creative Depression (SELFIE), Oil on Board, 14″ x 18″, 2017, £1,950.- These days the depression can be really bad, there’s a creative block and nothing works in the studio, there’s self doubt, a lack of confidence and a mid-life creative crisis. At times like this I wonder why I’m an artist and why I paint, it’s a deadly zone.

 

 

Summerlight Chelsea Embankment II, Oil on Board, 2017, £1800
Summerlight Chelsea Embankment I, Oil on Board, 2017, £1800.- These show my love for summer, Chelsea and statues. This was painted along Cheyne Walk, Chelsea Embankment.

 

Adebanji painting Chelsea Embankment I
Adebanji painting Summerlight, Chelsea Embankment I

 

Alade-Adebanji-Summerlight Chelsea Embankment II
Summerlight Chelsea Embankment II, 16″ x 12″, Oil on Board, 2017, £1,800. -This shows my love from Summer, Chelsea and statues. Painted close to Albert Bridge.

 

Adebanji painting Chelsea Embankment II
Adebanji painting Summerlight, Chelsea Embankment II

 

 

 

Adebanji Alade paints, “Adele Bellis, A Survivor of an Acid Attack” on the One Show.

by Adebanji
Three View of Adele Bellis,
Three View of Adele Bellis, Oil on Canvas, 2017

This for my International Audience who may have missed the short film of the final “Brush With Fame Series” -Where I sketched, painted and interviewed Adele Bellis, a survivor of an acid attack and domestic abuse on The One Show,(04/19/17) BBC One.