Adebanji Alade is President of the Royal Society of Oil Painters, the resident artist on BBC 1’s The One Show and a published author with his Addictive Sketcher books. He lives in Gravesend and when Tracy bumped into him in the local Tesco he was chatty and very friendly. Adebanji has an online art group sketching and painting with members and twice a year runs a sketch week open to the public for only £10 for 5 lessons. They’re at 7.30pm onwards but if you can’t watch a lesson live you have until the following Friday to watch and take part.

The next sketch week is from Monday 3rd to Friday 7th March with lessons available to watch until Friday 14th March.

Here’s the link if you want to take part… https://adebanji-alade.lpages.co/addictive-sketchers-week/

Tracy took part in the last sketch week and learned so many things that she highly recommends taking part. For only £10 it’s an absolute bargain!

Once you sign up you’re sent a list of materials, but as long as you have a sketchbook, a few pencils from 2B to 8B and a rubber, you don’t need any extras.

These are Tracy’s sketches. The subject photos are emailed to you and you can print them out but instead she downloaded the photos to her phone and used an app called ‘Grid’ to put on the lines used to help with sketching out. There were two portraits, figures, a landscape and an animal, so a variety of subjects to sketch.

Tracy has signed up for sketch week next week and so have Brenda and Jane. Will anyone else join us?