Strike partners-perfect combination

This is the new strike force of Arsenal -Robin Van Persie and Emmanual Adebayor- they are the new Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp.

Hope they do well this season!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rush Hour III, oil on canvas, 80 x 100cm

This is another series on my Rush Hour series, this particular one got accepted for the finals of the under 35 category in the Royal Institute of Oil Painters 2007 exhibition to be held at the Mall Galleries.

I really enjoy these Rush Hour paintings because they are the experiences I go through everyday on the tube and I know what is like to be part of that "rat race feel". We all go head long in the train/tube or bus with a serious weird anticipation for work. Hmm mm .

In this painting I wanted to capture the evening feel during the shorter day periods in London when it becomes dark at about 4pm and it is closing time around 5.30pm and everyone plods into the tube subway......

Mostly muted colours have been used, yellows, oranges and red/browns to give the city central glow!

sketches on the train/tube and bus Oct1 -7 part II

sketches on the Train/bus/tube Oct 1- Oct 6

These are the first part of the sketches I have done in the first week of October 2007 on London Transport! Happy viewing!

Sketches on the train/tube in August/September

As usual, this is my delight. I have started using the sketchpad back and front it creates a kind of nice feeling, compostiton wise, some work some clash. Here are a few examples.

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Sketches on the train(London Bridge to Woolich Arsenal)

I was on the train yesterday and spotted this girl, fair and had golden hair and a black top on. All the guys behind me were watching the progress and I just kept at the job, listening to my music and viola! I got one of my best shots...........

me

Sketches on the train (Sidcup--)

I think I got on the wrong train and it was useless I would have to go all the way to Dartford via Sidcup before I could get back on track to Belvedere. So since the journey would take longer I spotted this lady at the back seat of the train and since I was in good position I got the best of her features before she got off.

Sketch of Peet

I did this sketch of Peet at work today it took about one and half hours, but he was agreat model and that helped tremendously. I used 3B pencils and other softer pencils. on cartridge paper.

Sketches on the tube and train

These are a few sketches I made on the tube last week, I particularly fell in love with the 2nd and 3rd couple on the tube on Saturday- they looked terrific! I regret wasting time before I made my decision to sketch but all along I was observing thier features, they spoke french they were simply amazing!

me in my studio space

The studio space to any artist is a sacred space! This is my little space.

NANA Lawson

This woman is inspirational I have decided to paint her on her 60th birthday! She is the one one who takes care of all new born babies in my church and she also is the chief cleaner in my church. Her ministry in outstanding. Her faithfulness is admirable.

God bless her.

I had to finish this under 4 days to meet the deadline for this saturday when her grandchildren would present it to her.

Kimberly

This is Kimberly, my friend Dave at work kept being on my neck to sketch him the only recent picture he had of his daughter- to put in his room wall. So on Thursday last week with a sanguine coloured pencil I sketched it without grids in 2 hours ! He was really pleased with it!

Sketches on the train (Elephant and Castle to Clapham Common)

This woman was dresed in one of those traditional wears the Asian women put on. I couldn't resist. I also didn't want to get into trouble with her husband who was on my side. So I had to do it with the "hide and seek technique "- watch his movements in the window reflecting his image in front of me without turning my head. I was quite pleased with the result. She was busy reading an Asian magazine.