Essence of Creation

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Marlot – 18-02-16’ is a surrealist one. I started out doing this one impressionistically then I saw the potential for something else. That’s the experience we artists always have. As a rule you end up painting or drawing a completely different artwork. Isn’t that the essence of creation? You’ll never know what you gonna get.

Combining Styles

It all started with a particular area just around the corner from where I live. That would be Marlot forest. A small park really but anything is tiny in The Netherlands, except for the people. As said, I was in for a bit of impressionism but soon I felt a bit bored. Surely, sheer copying is beneath me. It must have been my previous one ‘Strange Goings on at ‘t Meertje – 10-02-16 (Sold)’ changing my mind. In that one I combined cubism with surrealism. What if I could do something similar here?

Pareidolia

So I looked real close to the reference picture I took. Mostly I try to see beyond the meaning of the forms already present. You could say that I was looking for other meanings. That’s a quality we artists have. Shapes are assigned meanings by spectators. As artist I always try to dissociate myself from these meanings and turn them into other shapes. Those could be cubist or any other basic geometrical shape. However, sometimes you can attach a different meaning to a form than it normally lets on. If you can attach two different meanings to a form at the same time then we speak of ‘pareidolia’. So there they were all of a sudden: a woman and a cow. Cows do tend to stick around in Woods and women tend to recline in the grass. 

Pencil drawing (Pentel 3B, 0.5 mm) on Canson Bristol paper (21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm – A4 format)

Artist: Corné Akkers

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