An Urban-scape, probably somewhere in the Mediterranean.  Playing with complements (Orange versus Blue) and pushing the color intensity. Thanks for Visiting.  Enjoy!

I love to sketch people and sketching figures in oil is one of my favourites.  I love the loose painterly, incompletness of a sketch, leaving the rest for the viewers eyes to fill in.  These sketches are all tiny: 5″x7″, therefore I suggested the facial features on only a few. #oilsketch #figuresketch #quicksketch #figures #beachfigures

I loved the casual pose of the model and how the face is left to the imagination of the viewer.  It takes me to my childhood, in Nigeria, when I got hold of The Arabian Nights and I spent many hours reading the book.  I have left it in the unrefined painterly state.

#oilpainting, #reader #girlreading #indoorpainting #paintingofaroom

Playing with light and light on silk like material.  Oil on Panel 8″x10″.  Thank you for visiting.  Enjoy! 

Another small 5″x7″ painting.  A study in Aerial perspective, values and broken colors.  Enjoy!

I took the pose from a photograph on the Internet.  However it is heavily re-interpreted and the girls face could not be discerned in the original photograph, so I created her face from my imagination.  

The best poses are not posed, and this couple delivered.  This is from a video, where this scene was merely a second or two long, so I had to be fast with my fingers to pause this scene.  I have changed the background quite a bit,  except for the couple and the single dirt road.

…And so it begins…

Oil painting (8″x 10″).  Enjoy!

A Video of this painting on youtube.

Practicing to make difficult stuff easy… Enjoy!

Oil sketch on Paper

Watercolor sketch at Niagra falls.  (used watercolor pencis and few gouache)