Graphite and Colored Pencil Drawings by Corne Akkers - Corne Akkers Drawings & Paintings

Nude – 26-04-16 (sold)

Part of the roundism series although it has surrealistic elements as well.

Tribute to Man Ray (Lee Miller) – 22-04-16 (sold)

A mixture of cubism, surrealism and art-deco that I made to honor Man Ray.

Bettie Page – 18-04-16 (sold)

A surrealistic graphite pencil drawing of Bettie Page, American pin-up and 1950s celebrity.

Nude – 13-04-16

Part of the roundism series, a continuation of the ‘birth of new cubism series’.

surrealistic nude graphite pencil drawing

Nude – 08-04-16

Once in a while I want to do something else like this one.

impressionistic nude graphite pencil drawing

Nude – 06-04-16

A rather realistic looking nude of my favourite model, although she was subject to a certain degree of styling according to my principles of roundism.

Nude – 01-04-16

A graphite pencil drawing of my favourite model again in a slight roundistic way.

Nude – 25-03-16

A rather realistic drawing done in clairobscur of my favorite model in which I wanted to depict the shiny skin.

cubistic treescape graphite pencil drawing

Meyendel – 22-03-16

My favourite part of the dunes at The Hague, Netherlands in cubistic forms.

Tree at Voorburg – 21-03-16

A deviation from the first Tree at Voorburg. This one has roundish shapes rather than straight.

Tree at Voorburg – 19-03-16

The first tree out of a series of 2 tree drawings.

Nude – 14-03-16 (sold)

A woman I met on deviantart posted explicite pictures and was asking for artists to paint / draw her. I asked for a decent one and this was the result.

Cubistic landscape graphite pencil drawing

Rotterdam – Delftshaven – 08-03-16 (sold)

After my drawing of Rotterdam – Coolhaven I wanted to do Delftshaven – another part of the old harbour area of Rotterdam but in a slight cubistic way.

Impressionistic landscape graphite pencil drawing

Rotterdam – Coolhaven – 02-03-16 (sold)

A rather impressionistic view on Coolhaven (part of the harbour of Rotterdam). I made this drawing inspired by a trip to Rotterdam when I passed by the Coolhaven and I lost a contact that day so I saw it quite blurry.

cubistic portrait graphite pencil drawing of Bettie Davis

Sans titre – 27-02-16 (sold)

Part of the sans titre series, depicting Bette Davis, American actress and celebrity.

Nude – 25-02-16 (sold)

Part of the roundism series. I wanted to open up the body again so a spectator could wander through it freely without being blocked by a closed form.

Nude – 23-02-16

A drawing of my favourite model.

Schoonhoven – 22-02-16

A combination of straight building lines and round branches like I applied in another earlier drawing Rijswijk – 04-12-14

surrealistic landscape graphite pencil drawing

Marlot – 18-02-16

Marlot Forest is around the corner from where I live and once I saw a woman and a cow there.

Strange Goings On At ‘t Meertje – 10-02-16 (sold)

Sometimes it happens that you see faces in trees and water. Such was the case when I came to ‘t Meertje, a place near Ooij and Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands

Nude – 05-02-16 (sold)

I wanted to open up the model as maximally as possible without losing the recognition of the anatomical basics. It is with a collector from the United Kingdom now.

Cubistic portrait graphite pencil drawing

Julia Filament – 01-02-16 (sold)

Portrait of my dear colleague and friend Julia Filament who has a very round face, so I felt myself forced to break her up in straight lines and planes.

cubistic cityscape graphite pencil drawing

Nijmegen – Priemstraat – 30-01-16

My hometown Nijmegen at Gelderland, Netherlands in a slight cubistic way but also impressionistic

The protestant church at De Ooij, Gelderland, Netherlands – 27-01-16

An experiment with cubism / roundism applied to a site that’s familiar to me: The former protestant church at the Ooij, at Gelderland, Netherlands.

Nude – 25-01-16

I strived to draw a body through which you could wander about in light without boundaries.

Nude – 22-01-16

Part of the roundism series. I liked the edgy feel to the knees creating distinct forms in the negative space around them.

Nude – 19-01-16

I liked the sausage-form quality of the model reclining on the floor and immediately saw the roundism-styled shapes in it.

Nude – 15-01-16

A cubist approach to this one. I had so much negative space left that I had to come up with something. I decided to make a kind of super trooper or sun.

Nude – 13-01-16 (sold)

Part of the roundism series. I was charmed by the foreshortening in the back and the buttocks of the woman reclining and I wanted to do a combination of straight and round planes and forms.

Nude – 08-01-16

Part of the roundism series. It’s on display in China now.