Nudes - Corne Akkers Art

The widow of Aleppo (2019)

Drawng often is called the primary process and I like it so much, brimming over with an ocean of ideas, that I forget about transfering those ideas to the secondary stage: the canvas. There always is something to dust off and in 2017 I used ‘Nude – 03-09-15’ to work out a bigger theme, called ‘The Widow of Aleppo – 18-05-17’, after Rembrandt’s painting Jeremiah lamenting Jerusalem’s destruction. Since the war in Syria sort of came to an end but the people still suffer, I found it appropiate to do this anew but then in oil.

Surrealistic nude graphite pencil drawing

The artist and his model – 22-02-19 (sold)

This drawing is to celebrate the holy bond between the artist and his model.

Model session – 14-02-19

Last session with my model I wanted to have her pose a little bit more risqué but counterbalance it by keeping the hatched strokes rather rough than to finepolish them into tonal matching strokes that would approach realism too much.

Nude – 02-02-19

The object was to do a pastel drawing similar to ‘model session – 17-01-19’ but to keep the hatched strokes rather wide. I also wanted to combine more complementary colour combinations in order to get a greyish look while on the other hand those hatched strokes look very saturated up close.

Model session – 17-01-19

Last Thursday it was time for my regular model to sit for me in my studio. I keep a clean blanket for her she can sit on.

Model session – 29-11-18

This evening I had a great session with my main model throughout the years. She is slender, knows what I want and shows dark skin tones, giving my the possibility to fool around with all sorts of colours.

Julia – 11-09-18

The third drawing of Julia Gómez Avilés rendered with colour pencils. Last week I bought a great collection of Prismacolour pencils that brought me great joy using them

Julia -28-08-18

Yesterday I had famous dancer and choreographer Julia Gómez

Model session @ Leidschendam – 14-05-18

A classic model study I did yesterday at Leidschendam, Netherlands.

Model – 01-12-17

Some months ago I started attending some drawing sessions at Rotterdam where I did short positions again.

Model session @ Rotterdam – 19-11-17 (sold)

Yesterday’s session at Rotterdam offered Gabriëlle, the model of that Sunday afternoon. She had great hip bones and was slender, thus showing great angles and triangles with her body.

Model session 2 @ Rotterdam – 19-11-17

Short positions at live model sketching took me back to reinvent my way rendering human bodies and together with my new found Pastelmat by Clairefontaine I was able to experiment with new ways.

Model session @ Rotterdam – 16-10-17

A 15 min. sketch I made yesterday during a live model session at Rotterdam.

Nude – 01-10-17

A rather loose cubistic sketch done with colour pencils. For the 4th time in a row I used the same (indian) model. Her skin allows me to use a lot of yellow which I counterbalanced with edgy purple planes.

Model – 18-09-17

A 5 min. sketch I made yesterday at a session at Rotterdam. Fun to do short positions again.

Mildred 1 – session 22-07-17

An impressionistic approach to live model sketching with one of my favorite models – done at Voorburg. Netherlands.

Into the light – 15-06-17

Enter the gloom! I wanted to delve into the darkness and bring a woman back into the light. With a little help from my friend Look J. Boden for the excellent photography and the top class model that stood for us.