Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 5

Corne Akkers
Model Session with Julia – 31-12-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper

2021

$1,054
£795.42
€910.64
CA$1,486.49
A$1,631.98
CHF 851.41
MX$19,749.23
NOK 10,671.07
SEK 10,054.95
DKK 6,797.69

About the Item

Love at First Sight Last night I had a model session with Julia. Sometimes you come across a woman you immediately fall in love with. She is a great model and warm personality. Besides that, she is an artist herself and graphic designer. We held the session at her home. Our mutual interests, her beauty and my keen artists eye were premonitions of a wonderful session and so it was. On a picture I already saw she had this enormous round chair and immediately saw the potential. Yesterday was the momentum to have her pose in it and that was love at first sight. What struck me were the angular body structures counterbalanced by breasts, her round face and the circular foreshortened chair. Last but not least she happened to have a special lamp, adjustable through Siri. That was a new thing for a middle-aged guy like me. So, also great lighting. Not Too Grainy At the start I had no real plan what my approach would be. I had been busy last month and so I just grabbed some drawing materials. Mostly the usual suspects like some toned paper and pastel sticks. Those always come in handy. The paper is Strathmore Toned Gray, not too grainy and perfect for live sessions with conté and charcoal. The chiaroscuro play on and around her body was smashing but consequently the lighting on the pastel sheet was poor. I got the bulk of the depiction right but closer inspection after the session learnt I went wrong somehow. Some proportions clearly were off such as the facial expression. It is almost impossible to get a clear ressemblance on such a small scale with fairly big sticks. Some corrections today so she actually looks like the fine lady herself. Rugged and Nice Last pastel drawing I made was Reclining Nude – 19-09-21. That one I smoothed out to soft gradients only. In this one I kept a rougher edge. Normally during these live drawing sessions the stress is put on anatomical proportions. There simply is not enough time to tackle every aspect such as blending and fine detailing. That is just very fine, surpressing my natural fixation on details, leaving me as pray for the abstract beasts. The necessity for abstraction spawns spontaneity and ingenuity though. I had to come up with a solution for the rugged blanket she was sitting on. Soon enough I discovered using the side of my black conté gave me that speckled look. It represents the rugged look of the hairy structures quite well, I think. Such an invention is like the sun breaking through the clouds. Pastel drawing on Strathmore Toned Gray paper (27.9 x 35,6 x 0.1 cm) Artist: Corné Akkers :: Drawing :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Signature Location: low right :: Paper :: Landscape :: Original :: Framed: No
  • Creator:
  • Creation Year:
    2021
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 14 in (35.56 cm)Depth: 0.1 in (2.54 mm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Yardley, PA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 1321481stDibs: LU80219694922

More From This Seller

View All
Model Session – 23-01-24, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
A Kick-Off This pastel drawing ‘Model Session – 23-01-24’ is the first I drew live since a long time. Probably last year I think and that was spring if I remember correctly....
Category

2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pastel

Model session – 17-01-19, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
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. Since she is small and the bla...
Category

2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pastel

Model session - 31-12-19, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Model session - 31-12-19 Last day of the year and completed a work in progress I started during a live session with my regular model. With just two simple LED reading lamps I got ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pastel

Model session – 29-11-18, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
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 p...
Category

2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pastel

Model session @ Leidschendam – 14-05-18, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Model session @ Leidschendam – 14-05-18 A classic model study I did yesterday at Leidschendam, Netherlands. I used two strong LED lamps to light the model from both sides in ord...
Category

2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pastel

Model Session – 20-04-24 – 1, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Heater Troubles This pastel drawing ‘Model Session – 20-04-24 – 1’ is the first I made during this month’s session. Last time we had a man posing for us. This time there...
Category

2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pastel

You May Also Like

Model Waiting in the Studio - Original signed charcoals drawing
By Gaston Coppens
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002) Model Waiting in the Studio Original charcoal drawing Signed in the bottom right Stamp of the artist on the back On drawing paper 52 x 43 cm (c 21 x 17...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal

Resting Model - Signed Original Pastel Drawing
By Gaston Coppens
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002) Dreaming Nude Original pastel drawing Stamp signature Stamp of the artist on the back On wove paper 48 x 36 cm (c 18 x 14 inches) Excellent condition Gaston Coppens studied sculpture in the prestigious Ecoule Boulle (Paris). Working in Boulogne Billancourt, just near Paris, his drawings keep the influence of his first formation : modeling volumes, subliming with harmony light and shadow. He was also influenced by the first cubist painters...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal

Female Nude, Pastel Drawing After Renoir Polish Ecole D'Paris WPA Bezalel Artist
By Jacques (Jakub) Zucker
Located in Surfside, FL
Jacques Zucker was born in 1900 in Radom, Poland. He was a notably famous Jewish American artist mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings. In his young years he traveled t...
Category

20th Century Modern Nude Paintings

Materials

Pastel

Patricia de Lima - 20th Century Pastel, Reclining Nude
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful pastel study of a nude model reclining onto a soft surface. The artist has used shades of blue and red in expressive markings to capture the model's features. Signed to ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

Dreaming Nude - Hand Signed Original Pastel Drawing
By Gaston Coppens
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002) Dreaming Nude Original pastel drawing Hand signed (with the monogram) Stamp of the artist on the back On wove paper 40 x 33 cm (c 15.7 x 12.9 inch) Exc...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal

Nude Model Woman Roy Petley Color Pencil Drawing Impressionist
By Roy Petley
Located in Pollenca, Illes Baleares
In every work of art, Petley incorporates a play of light and shadows. As he moves from his natural medium of oil to watercolour or pastel to sanguine, there remains a certain youthf...
Category

2010s Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Color Pencil