A New Where Rounds Drift

This soft pastel ‘Where Rounds Drift – 28-04-26’ is a natural follow-up to my colored pencil drawing under the same name. Perhaps yet another significant evolution in my personal artistic journey. This one is also a logic resident of my Neo Deco / Roundism pantheon. However, I wanted to create something new as well. Could this one be born out of sheer boredom? Let me explain. Yesterday it was King’s Day in The Netherlands. Traditionally that’s a feast for people to sit on quilts, selling their second hand stuff on the streets. Not for me though, flea  markets are not for me. However, few people showed up in my Monday art class, basically taking a day off. This leaves me with only a few of them and some spare time to draw myself during those classes.

A Quick Draw from the Hip

Being still captivated by my In Hoc Signo project I thought of a quick draw from the hip. That would be a pastel shot. I could only think of one thing I would like to do and that the elaboration of aforementioned coloured pencil piece. Then I remembered how much fun it was to do an earlier pastel ‘Free Floating Blue Wave Nude – 10-02-21’. The challenge was to capture both the familiar atmosphere of the pencil drawing and this pastel’s style. Both pieces capture a serene sense of weightlessness and surely I wanted to reach for the same in a new pastel.

A Fractured Play of Light

Capturing forms came easy, also given the fact I caught hem before only two weeks ago. The color scheme: same thing. Not much of a problem because I simply used the same as employed in the Free Floating pastel. However, as stated above, I was in for something new. Something that could be an addition to my already existing artistic paradigma. Why not cut those waves and forms open by having diagonal beams of light run through them. Consequently, they create a beautifully fractured pattern across the skin, creating new form altogether. Obviously I didn’t want to loose the recognizability of the human form. On the other hand, I didn’t want to overproduce it as well. Hence, the pastel still feels sketchy, even showing a rough edge here and there. Let AI compete with that for a change.

Rhythmic Play of Light

All in all, I like this rhythmic play of light and I see my daring attempt to do something new paid off. Upon my word: The underwater world offers endless inspiration for such geometric experiments. Everything feels fluid, yet strictly structured through my personal lens.

Pastel drawing on Canson Mi-Teintes Touch paper (63 x 47 x 0.1 cm)

Artist: Corné Akkers

Price: € 1,600.00

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