Graphite and Colored Pencil Drawings by Corne Akkers

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.

Nude – 03-01-16 (sold)

Part of the roundism series and in the hands of a private collector now.

Nude – 01-01-16

The model showed great round shapes that I extended for the occasion.

cubistic landscape graphite pencil drawing

The Hague Forest – 28-12-15

Part of the roundism series. The Hague Forest (Haagse Bos) is around the corner from where I live.

Rijswijk – 04-12-15

The straight lines of the church and the difference in mass between the planes and the those of the branches, inspired to make this piece.

impressionistic cityscape graphite pencil drawing

The Court’s pond (De Hofvijver) – 26-11-15

The pond next to the dutch house of Parliament and the Prime Minister’s tower at the left, at The Hague, Netherlands.

Culemborg – 21-11-15

I was lead by the cubist qualities of the Streets of Culemborg, a city in the centre of the Netherlands, in Gelderland.

Leiden – 16-11-15 (sold)

Leiden is famous for its canals and I makes me sentimental when they remind me of my time as a student, walking back drunk from a party feeling sick smelling the water.

Leiden – 11-11-15

A view on the houses and trees below the Burcht (Castle) of Leiden.

Leiden – 06-11-15

A graphite pencil drawing of Leiden, city at Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, where I lived for a long time and this site is to be seen from the Burcht (Castle) looking at the Hartebrugkerk (church).

Leiden – 04-11-15

The city where I studied international and european competition law and where I lived for 11 years.

cubistic treescape graphite pencil drawing

Haagse Bos (The Hague Forest) – 02-11-15

The central pond at the Haagse Bos (The Hague Forest). I wanted to make the reflections look convincing even though there was plenty of figurative abstraction.

Het Binnenhof (The Inner Court) – 29-10-15

I wanted to do the dutch parliament in my roundish style without loosing the characteristics of the facade and buildings.

Royal Estate ‘De Horsten’ – 23-10-15

A rather gloomy drawing but I liked doing it. It’s art deco rather than cubism I think.

Filosofendal (Valley of the Philosophers) – 20-10-15

Breaking up a forest into planes of light, darkness and cubistic forms. It’s called ‘The Valley of the Philisophers’ (Filosofendal) at Berg en Dal, near Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands (Nederland).

Nude – 17-10-15 (sold)

I liked doing the facets like a diamond in this one. It’s with a private collector now.

Nude – 12-10-15

The reference picture was not too great so I had to add a lot of things to it, like the moon and in the body.

Nude – 07-10-15 (sold)

I liked the model being thin so I could easily detect cubistic planes.

surrealistic nude graphite pencil drawing

Nude – 04-10-15

When I saw this photo for the first time I didn’t know what to think of it. I do not relate to so-called romantic art of ballerinas and dancers striking great poses.