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This pastel Drawing ‘Clairobscur – 06-10-20’ is an oldie really! In 2013 I started this clairobscur lit nude. A great concept I thought it was and it still is. Then I tucked it in one of pastel maps, only to forget about it for years and years. I remembered I was not quite satisfied by the color saturation and the color scheme itself. It leaned too much on the red and purple side. Besides that, the proportions were slightly off. However, the pastel never left my mind and kept creeping itself back into my active working memory.
If you become curious right now, I have a whole bag of mishaps loitering about. It is one of the long and winding roads an artist has to take. Especially when frantically looking for a style to call my own. In the meantime this kind of impressionism in hatched strokes I did a lot in the past. Once in a while it is fun to take it up once again. In fact posting ‘Pastel Study 04 (2013)’ reminded me to finish this one. Frankly, I also was curious how this hatched strokes style would flow from my fingers after such a long time.
Next tot his, sometimes you have to give a pastel a second chance. In other worlds, give myself a new shot at it. The solution was fairly simple. I adjusted the foreshortening a bit. Besides that, I added green to the scene. Such compensates for the deep dark purples and reds that come from Schmincke and Unison. Sometimes colors can come on too strong. Hatching some greens in this particular case do the trick. The result is a kind of divisionism as employed by pointillists.
Pastel drawing on Canson Mi-Teintes Touch paper (50 x 65 x 0.1 cm)
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Artist: Corné Akkers
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