Louise Brooks – 02-09-25

Graphite drawing Louise Brooks by Corné Akkers, seated woman with two cats and art deco screen.

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Louise Brooks – 02-09-25’ is a mixture of surrealism, cubist styling and art deco. Louise, two cats and an elephant combined.

Louise Brooks – 02-09-25

Graphite drawing Louise Brooks by Corné Akkers, seated woman with two cats and art deco screen.

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Louise Brooks – 02-09-25’ is a mixture of surrealism, cubist styling and art deco. Louise, two cats and an elephant combined.

Counting Sheep – 26-05-25

surrealist animals graphite pencil drawing

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Counting Sheep – 26-05-25’ is my first surrealist work after quite some time. One time they were floating in the sky.

Counting Sheep – 26-05-25

surrealist animals graphite pencil drawing

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Counting Sheep – 26-05-25’ is my first surrealist work after quite some time. One time they were floating in the sky.

Fox the Fox – 04-05-22

surrealist nude oil painting

Fox the Fox -04-05-22 is an elaboration of a graphite pencil drawing Nude – 04-10-15 I made years ago. Foxy parts go surreal!

Slava Ukraini – 28-09-23

surrealist cubist nude graphite pencil drawing

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Slava Ukraini – 28-09-23’ incorporates a narrative or theme again. Neo Deco – 20-09-23 merely knew a formalistic approach.

Wag the Dog – 24-04-22

surrealist nude oil painting

My graphite pencil drawing Wag the Dog – 26-09-21 was waiting on the shelf to be put into oil. After my last oil Slava Ukraini – 18-04-22 I thought I’d use another surrealist theme and why not?

Slava Ukraini – 18-04-22

surrealist nude oil painting

The West has recently become familiar with the phrase ‘Slava Ukraini’. Obviously everyone who is a democrat and values freedom above all can support the meaning of this slogan.

The Venus of The Hague – 23-07-20

Surreal graphite drawing of a reclining female nude with a shark’s head, resting on a brain-like sphere, surrounded by fish, shells, and a diver in an underwater scene.

Being a deep sea fish a coelacanth hardly ever come face to face with a white shark way up high but sometimes it does. If so, what would you expect to happen.

The Venus of The Hague – 09-07-20

Surrealistic nude graphite pencil drawingSurrealistic nude graphite pencil drawing

Animals kept crawling in so it was inevitable to incorporate them into these series. The first one I saw was a lioness in her thight and second the hares in her buttocs.