Tee's Arts (@teesart)
Visual Art
Hand of God (Pastel on Paper)
This new piece was inspired by the famous painting “Hand of God” by Leonardo Da Vinci, and I completed it this past month. It depicts two figures, one of which is a male figure whose face is covere...
Why I started painting African Masks
I started this series with the idea of making African masks cool, contemporary, and relatable which is a shift from the way they are often portrayed as diabolic, evil, or enchanted. I personally kn...
The word “Integrity”
https://www.rootsofaction.com/integrity/ I belong to a high school alumni group with about 136 people and something happened lately regarding funds/ dues people paid for the upkeep of the alumni gr...
Finishing Touches (Afro Mask Series)
I’m trying to round up these series before resuming my regular 9-5 next week. I’m honestly impressed by how much I’ve accomplished this past one month and proud of all my works. Gathering and build...
Fragility of Life
I woke up this afternoon to the news of the passing of the legendary Nigerian actor, Taiwo Hassan. This news hit harder because we grew up watching him and even having him as a role model because o...
Cooling Tower Painting (Refinery Series)
I started making a new series that explores the landscape of of the environment I spent my childhood. I grew up in the Niger Delta part of Nigeria, Warri, where we had petroleum and petrochemical r...
Pastel Painting of a Bird On A Tree Branch
I finally got to try out my new set of soft pastel chalks and pastel pencil. At first, I wasn’t quite sure what to paint as I felt drawing on a black paper was gonna be most appropriate for pastels...
Acrylic Painting of Pears (Practice)
Still on my journey of learning how to paint using acrylic paints, i decided to create this painting of two pears to study shapes, mixing of colours and highlighting. I started off by making a sket...
Acrylic Painting of Sunflower (First Painting in Years)
I have always worked with either a pen, graphite or charcoal pencils because they felt comfortable and I sorta mastered them quite quickly, However, with acrylics, I dreaded them because I wasn't a...
Lonely At the Top (Ink Sketch)
I created this sketch last night of my masked character on the top of a mountain, the apex. This was done to study the character and know what of the main painting might be challenging. I did find ...
Morning Sketch of My Slide with Pen
While speaking with my brother on the phone this morning, I grabbed my pen and paper and began making a still life drawing of my slide (slipper). Yeah, I was multitasking because I decided to use e...
Sketch of Eyo Masquerade In Nike Jordans
I created this sketch of an Eyo masquerade wearing a Nike Jordan sneakers and in flight from dancing. The background has the iconic lagos buses and a busy environment. This sketch was made to study...
Eyo Masquerade (Motherhood Sketch)
I’m currently exploring a series of art that would be promoting African art and artworks that do not have actual humans faces in them. I think we’re slowly leaving the era of drawing faces as peopl...
Drawing A Skull in Hand (Ink Drawing)
Hey friends. Over the weekend, I created this drawing of a skull held in a hand. I had seen a photo online that showed a person holding a skull and it was quite captivating. I decided to challenge ...
Charcoal Drawing of a young boy(Goal: No erasing)
[](https://3speak.tv/watch?v=teesart/pcdbsujxry) ▶️ Watch on 3Speak --- I slept for a couple hours after work and when it’s finally time to get some good sleep, I couldn’t. I will be going to to wo...