The Cubist Female form

This colored pencil drawing ‘Nude – 11-11-16’ is a cubist female form again. Prolonging my search for new color schemes in coloured pencil you could say. Why not? Because I made so many monochromous graphite pencil drawings throught the years. Working in color on paper takes me to new dimensions yet more complications at the same time. It’s just that the painstaking process of finding forms and proportions doesn’t disappear adding finding colors as well. However, I think I managed doing that exactly right this time: finding matching colors. That is, color schemes because it’s all about relations between colors. That’s exactly what I teach on a daily basis by the way. The more important I practice what I preach in my studio in Voorburg.

Straight Cubist Planes

After coloured pencil drawing ‘Julia Filament 03-11-16 (Sold)’ I felt an inner urge to directly return to nudes. Next to this, in my private stash of reference pictures I took throughout the years I found the perfect one. In this particular case I saw the potention of leaving straight cubist planes open to breathe. Somehow I wanted to have the negative space be an integral part of the cubistic parts. It creates embedment and a feel of being in the right spot, at easy.

The Inside Out, the Outside In

Throughout the years I have seen so many so-called masterpieces that look enstranging. Forms can be painted in great detail but feel too much separated from eachother, living their separate lifes. Therefor I see it as a holy task bestowed upon my by the universe to offer people a different view. Didn’t Jesus said something about the ‘inside becomes the outside, the outside becomes the inside’? These words I always took to heart but I only make them visual for people.

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Pencil drawing (Derwent Coloursoft pencils on Canson Bristol paper (21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm) – A4 format)

Artist: Corné Akkers