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

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.

Cubistic cityscape graphite pencil drawing

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.

Nude – 25-09-15

I experimented with stronger lines and edges like featured on a futuristic machine.

Nude – 17-09-15

Part of the roundism series. I wanted to have it as abstract as possible without losing the essence of the female body.

Nude – 12-09-15

I loved to let the women’s forms flow into the sheets around and let them be a part of the body. Mass that desintegrates into lines around it.

Nude – 09-09-15

This backwarded position was ideal for my roundism style go bezerk.

Nude – 03-09-15 (sold)

I particularly like this one because of the cubist quality of the abdomen muscles and the compositionary division of the negative space in big planes.

Nude – 28-08-15

This cubism-like drawing look rather like stained glass to me, now I look back at it.

Nude – 25-08-15

Graphite pencil drawing of an art deco-like model. I liked the cubist quality of the hairs.

Cubistic graphite pencil drawing of Anne Baxter

Sans titre – 21-08-15

Part of the sans titre series, being Anne Baxter, American actress and celebrity.

With this one I felt confident to explore the connection of the dominant figure with the negative space around it by incisions across both spaces. By extending lines through the direction of body parts I got geometric figures outside that mirror them.

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