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This is for my international audience and those who might have missed this last night when it was aired on The One Show. It’s all about my visit to the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children to meet two amazing children and find out what they felt like being in Hospital in the lead up to Christmas.
I met Kate, who is currently recovering from a bone marrow transplant on Starlight Ward, and I found out all about how she and her twin sister, Anna, still manage to share the joys of Christmas, despite not being able to be in the same room as one another at the moment.
I also met Abbie, who was having one of her routine stays on Apollo Ward as part of her cystic fibrosis treatment. Abbie has to come into hospital for two weeks every three months, and in the past she's been in hospital right up until Christmas Eve! A big thanks goes out to the amazing One Tribe film crew and the fantastic staff at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, they really made the day a pleasure and a joy!
My new book - THE ADDICTIVE SKETCHERTHE FRONT COVER of my new book!!!! SHOWDEMMMMMM!!!!!!! In bookstores in January 2020- but if you can’t wait you can pre-order on amazon, search press and penguin sites.
Adebanji Alade believes that everything in art begins as a sketch, and his mission is always the same - to instil his work with the power and immediacy of the sketch. This book will show you how.
Giving an insight into how this inspiring and talented artist works, The Addictive Sketcher passes on Adebanji Alade's infectious enthusiasm and will have the reader reaching for a pencil or pen to have a go. Adebanji has a skill and a passion for speaking and motivating his audience in a fun and engaging way, and this is reflected in his writing style.
Lively, stimulating and instructive, it is packed with numerous examples of the author's sketches as well as examples of his vibrant finished paintings. Covering pencils, coloured pencils, charcoal and graphite, along with finished oil paintings, this book provides a fascinating insight into the author's techniques.
Adebanji's work covers a broad range of subjects, including landscapes, portraits, crowd scenes, urban scenes and seascapes. He's particularly well known for his portraits and scenes of London. This book includes examples from a range of subject areas.
It's a great opportunity to paint alongside me and watch the ocassional demo in this lovely town of Morocco
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Let's do this! Apart from the painting you know that you'll receive endless inspiration, motivation and entertainment from my wealth of experience. Now let's do this! SHOWDEMMMMM!!
Following on from the inspirational 2012 documentary 'Life Of An Artist', addictive sketcher, Adebanji Alade gives his life lessons for creatives and artists of all kinds. He also has practical tips for aspiring plein air artists. With his inspirational style, he talks about his own life struggles, his approach to drawing and creativity and why he thinks you should 'become friends' with failure and rejection in order to succeed.SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL FOR MORE INSPIRATIONAL FILMS and follow us on Twitter @spoonjarfilms. Checkout Adebanji on the links below:
Collage of drawing demos and a picture of us together.
Talking about my sketches and drawings.
We worked of sketching on Public Transport together
Julia working on some of the techniques I showed her.
3. Turner and The Sun.- I presented Turner and the sun on The One Show, BBC One.
4. Open Studio Teaching at Heatherleys
5. Portrait Demo to The Enfield Art Circle.
6. A Portrait
The Conflict, 12" x 11.5", Mixed media on Board
7. I did a recording with the One Show Crew at The RA Drawing Rooms, it was to focus on a powerful sculptor who made The Queen's Head for the stamps we use today in England.
8. Another full day of Filming in Karl Taylor's Studio featuring the re-making of the work of Salvador Dali.
9. A drawing of Miss Cameroon, another one of my AFRO SERIES
