The Venus of The Hague - Corne Akkers Art

surrealistic nude graphite pencil drawing

The Venus of The Hague – 23-07-20

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 – 11-07-20

This one is a variation on a previous drawing ‘The Venus of The Hague – 29-05-20’ but then constructed out of basic geometric forms only: the circle, cube and triangle.

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The Venus of The Hague – 09-07-20

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.

The Venus of The Hague – 24-06-20

Next move on my Venus trail. I decided to do another surrealist one or is it? I put in some of my earlier themes like ‘singarity’, ‘the golden ratio’ and combine them with ‘the collapse of the wave function’.

The Venus of The Hague – 18-06-20

A version in straight lines, quite angular was bound to appear in my mind after the (sur)realistic one. So there you have it.

Surrealistic nude graphite pencil drawing thumbnail with Malle Babbe, dejeuner sur l'herbe, rembrandt, la belle ferroniere and salvador dali

The Venus of The Hague – 07-06-20 (sold)

Today’s my birthday and I thought I’d offer you something different: a special treat.

The Venus of The Hague – 29-05-20

This one is one step further abstracted than my previous drawing ‘The Venus of The Hague – 26-05-20’.

The Venus of The Hague – 26-05-20

Based on my previous drawing ‘The Venus of The Hague – 23-05-20’, preceded by version ’18-05-20’, I turned up the abstraction one gear further.

The Venus of The Hague – 23-05-20 (sold)

Based on my previous drawing ‘The Venus of The Hague – 18-05-20’ I went further in abstracting body shapes after my roundism style but still referring to the play of light and dark in the original.

The Venus of The Hague – 18-05-20 (sold)

Last session with my model was fruitful and I had a mirror in mind like I used in my drawing ‘In hoc signo – 14-10-19’. I was satisfied with the result then and I sold it very quicky. Time to emulate it.