Category: Drawing

POSTED IN Art, Art history, Culture, Drawing, Drawn art, Illustration October 08, 2018

Artist of the Week – Olarinde Olayemi Ayanfeoluwa

By Tobijulo Onifade scribble1 [skrib–uh l] verb (used with object), scrib·bled, scrib·bling. to write hastily or carelessly: to cover with meaningless writing or marks: The most exciting aspect of the Nigerian visual art scene these days is the ability of our people to turn the smallest and negative things into something creative. Scribbling and doodling have been associated with negativity and absentmindedness but its something we all […]

POSTED IN Art, Art history, Culture, Drawing, Drawn art, Illustration October 01, 2018

Artist of the Week – Renike Olusanya

By Tobijulo Onifade Early 2015, a friend of mine and I decided to attend a PTNA (Paint the Night Africa) event at Terra Kulture where we had to paint a village scene. The company had just started off in Lagos, Nigeria and so there were a few of us there. I remember my friend sat […]

POSTED IN Art history, Culture, Drawing, Drawn art, Illustration August 22, 2018

An Interview with Josh Egesi

Josh Egesi: ‘My parents were major motivations for me to study art’ Josh Egesi is a multimedia artist with a degree in Fine and Applied Arts from the University of Benin. Egesi is renowned for making the largest bottle cap portrait in Africa – an 11ft by 7ft portrait of his alma mater’s Vice-Chancellor. In this […]

POSTED IN Art, Art history, Culture, Drawing, Drawn art, Illustration August 19, 2018

ICYMI: Art635 Summer Workshop Kicks Off With Drawing Classes

By Adefoyeke Ajao Do you often wonder if you would have been a more skilful artist if you had received art lessons when you were much younger? You might be thinking it’s too late for you to develop any artistic talent, but you are wrong as Art635, the largest online repository of African art is […]

POSTED IN Art, Art history, Culture, Drawing, Drawn art April 25, 2018

Nigerian Artistry – Cartooning and Parody

By Tobijulo Onifade According to the Apple dictionary, a Cartoon is a simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way, especially a satirical one in a newspaper or magazine. This concept started in the Middle ages with Paintings, tapestry and so on and later evolved in the 19th and 20th […]

POSTED IN Art, Art history, Culture, Drawing, Drawn art February 12, 2018

Artist of the Week – Jacqueline Suowari

By Adefoyeke Ajao When most people think about art, they think of all things colourful, but Jacqueline Suowari’s pen ink and acrylic portraits confute the notion that monochrome figures can be less captivating than their colourful counterparts. Born in 1990, Suowari is a graduate of University of Port Harcourt, where she majored in painting. However, […]