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Medium: Pastel
Artist: Corne Akkers
Golden Cubism - 21-02-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Real Cubism This pastel Golden Cubism – 21-02-21 is the first real cubist drawing in my Golden series. After my last pastel drawing Lakshmi – 16-02-21 I realized I only made pastels in my Roundism style. The last one in that style was ‘Golden Lilac – 07-02-21’. What if I would return to the initial form of cubism I employed back in 2014. Besides that, once in a while my preference is to put the stress on angular forms rather than round ones. Variety is the spice of life...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Model Session – 20-04-24 – 1, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
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...
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2010s Realist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Model Session with Julia – 31-12-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
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. Be...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Berg en Dal - 19-12-23, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Another Go in Pastel This pastel drawing ‘Berg en Dal – 19-12-23’ is an elaboration of a graphite pencil drawing from May this year. After Golden 13-12-23 I wanted to do som...
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2010s Cubist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Golden Lilac - 07-02-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Scaling up This pastel drawing Golden Lilac - 07-02-21 is based on a previous graphite pencil drawing 'Nude - 13-01-16'. Once in a while I realize I draw in graphite more often than...
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2010s Cubist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Lulu in Space – 11-07-24, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
The Sale of Louise This pastel drawing ‘Lulu – 11-07-24’ depicts new adventurous endeavours celebrity moviestar Louise Brooks is about to undertake. Exit Metropolis! Let me ...
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2010s Surrealist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paris 24 – 04-07-24, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
100 Years of Art Deco This pastel drawing ‘Paris 24 – 05-07-24’ celebrates 100 years of art deco. I consider this the last true aesthetic artistic style human kind was able to forge. Before I delve deeper into this bold statement let me tell you about underlying intentions. Last Wednesday I rode my bike to Brugman Art where I rent my studio. After a week of doing due website maintenance I was a bit fed up with it. Why not set off for a quick under one hour sketch like I did during last live model session? On a whim really, so I delved into my folder...
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2010s Art Deco Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Model Session – 23-01-24, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
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....
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Berg en Dal – 30-12-23, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
What Color Can Do This pastel drawing ‘Berg en Dal – 30-12-23’ is the second of new pastel editions to an ever growing series. The one I completed last December 19th exceede...
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2010s Cubist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Golden – 13-12-23, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Pastel Again This pastel drawing ‘Golden – 13-12-23’ follows directly after my last oil painting ‘Cosmic Dance – 10-12-23’. Last time I made a pastel ‘Melina Noëlle...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Golden Night – 08-03-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
All Things Round? This pastel drawing Golden Night – 08-02-21 is based on a previous graphite pencil drawing Roundism 10-08-20. What I do is to browse through my collection of dra...
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2010s Cubist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Clairobscur – 06-10-20, Drawing, Pastels on Pastel Sandpaper
Located in Yardley, PA
Clairobscur – 06-10-20 Clairobscur In 2013 I started this clairobscur lit nude and tucked it in one of pastel maps, only to forget about it for years and years. I remembered I was not quite satisfied by the color saturation and the color scheme itself. It leaned too much on the red and purple side. Besides that, the proportions were slightly off. Mishaps If you become curious right now, I have a whole bag of mishaps loitering about. It is one of the long and winding roads an artist has to take, especially when frantically looking for a style to call my own. In the meantime this kind of impressionism in hatched strokes I did a lot but once in a while it is fun to take it up once again. In fact posting ‘Pastel Study 04 (2013)’ reminded me to finish this one. Second Chance Sometimes you have to give a pastel a second chance or in other worlds...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Golden Night - 08-03-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
All Things Round? This pastel drawing Golden Night - 08-02-21 is based on a previous graphite pencil drawing Roundism 10-08-20. What I do is to browse through my collection of drawi...
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2010s Cubist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Risque – 24-03-22, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Once in a While a Pastel The first pastel drawing in the Risque series and was long overdue. At the beginning of February I started this one just to fill the time waiting for my s...
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2010s Expressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Roundism – 29-11-17, Drawing, Pastels on Pastel Sandpaper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 29-11-17 Based on a earlier roundism graphite pencil drawing I made this pastel adding the realm of colours. I wanted the woman appear in a kind of midsummernight’...
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2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Romy Schneider (2013), Drawing, Pastels on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
Romy Schneider (2013) A cubistic prestudy for an oil painting. Pastel drawing on Hahnemühle velours paper (50 x 70 x 0.1 cm) Artist: Corné Akkers :: Drawing :: Contemporar...
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2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Julia – 19-11-19, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Julia – 19-11-19 Saturday 16th Novembern2019 I had Julia Gómes Avilés over as a model again. I wanted to express her dancing skills by a dynamic pose in which she holds her fo...
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2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Julia -28-08-18, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Julia -28-08-18 Yesterday I had famous dancer and choreographer Julia Gómez Avilés over to pose for me. She dances and teaches in Guangzhou, China and is touring now through Eur...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Model session - 31-12-19, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
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 ...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Romy Schneider (2013), Drawing, Pastels on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
Romy Schneider (2013) A cubistic prestudy for an oil painting. Pastel drawing on Hahnemühle velours paper (50 x 70 x 0.1 cm) Artist: Corné Akkers :: Drawing :: Contemporar...
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2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Julia - 19-11-19, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Julia - 19-11-19 Saturday 16th Novembern2019 I had Julia Gómes Avilés over as a model again. I wanted to express her dancing skills by a dynamic pose in which she holds her foot...
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2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Rotterdam - 01-05-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Rotterdam Revisited After my last drawing of Rotterdam (Het Depot - 15-03-21) I thought it was time to do another drawing. I had something vague in mind: something impressionistic a...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Lakshmi – 16-02-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Lakshmi – 16-02-21 Indian Goddess At last: I discovered my regular model is Lakshmi, goddess of wealth, fortune, love, beauty, joy and prosperity. In Indian art she is often depicted as a golden-coloured woman; elegantly dressed and prosperity-showering. She also is associated with lotus flowers, so I made an arcade of styled lotus petals. I turned them into representational abstractions like the ones I saw in indian drawings and paintings. Colors are strong on purpose such as in indian art. I harmonized colors a bit more though in style with western tradition. Klimt as Inspirational Source Some time ago with my model I discussed some new ways I wanted to explore. For no particular reason we both thought of Klimt and especially his oil of Judith and the head of Holofernes...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Free Floating Blue Wave Nude - 10-02-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Color Addition This pastel drawing ‘Free Floating Blue Wave Nude – 10-02-21’ is based on a previous graphite pencil drawing ‘Roundism – 19-07-16’. In my art statement to...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Reclining Nude – 19-09-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
A New Session This reclining nude is completed two days after the last model session I held at my studio. Being the first drawing I completed after July’s session means last month’s drawing has not been completed yet. This one was relatively easy though. It comprises a fairly simple composition with no technical or compositionary challenges. I could focus on soft skin textures and folds in the sheets. First I made a rough estimation of the composition in charcoal. I worked it out with Conté pastel pencils (black and white) later. Relax Baby! After the completion of my colored pencil drawing ‘Leiden – Herengracht – 14-09-21’ I was in the mood for some simple stuff, nothing fancy. So I had her take a comfortable position, reading a book on paradoxes I bought a couple of weeks ago at the Groninger Museum. I like these talks with my model because it both makes us relax and somehow this relaxation speaks through the musculature in her back. I tried to capture that and I think I got away with it. Moreover, the bond between artist and model is important and when the right chemistry is there, magic can happen. Materials Completely coincidental the first thing I pulled out of the bag of drawing paper was a block of Strathmore Toned Gray. In my pencil and pastel case I found an old charcoal holder. Perfect for a session on the bed with me sketching on the bedside. When I come to think of it, the best model sessions are improvised, not fixated on too many poses. It can cramp both model and artist. The iPad Pro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Model Session – 26-03-24 – 2, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Straight Up This pastel drawing ‘Model Session – 26-03-24 – 2’ is the second one of a succesful live model drawing session. Location: ‘De Blauwe Tram’ in Leidschendam....
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Olympia – 22-03-19, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Olympia – 22-03-19 Before last Tuesday’s model session I thought of a great pose I instructed to my model. It showed great triangular forms while her body would form one big t...
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2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Model session – 29-11-18, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
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...
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2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Model session – 14-02-19, Drawing, Pastels on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
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...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Royal estate âE˜De HorstenâE – 02-04-18, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Royal estate ‘De Horsten’ – 02-04-18 A pastel of a treescape at Royal estate ‘De Horsten’ at Wassenaar, Netherlands. This one I did last Saturday for a group of pastel s...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Model session @ Leidschendam – 14-05-18, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
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...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Sea swimming – 30-07-20, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Sea swimming – 30-07-20 One of those days. Sold something around midnight, did my regular things like website maintenance, teaching, eating and returning to my work in progress. Bullocks! Forgot my rucksack at the shopping mall...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Golden – 27-01-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Eldorado This nude pastel drawing in the Golden series resembles a previous pastel ‘Nude – 02-02-19’ a bit. However, I put the stress on skin hues in order to stay in line wit...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Rotterdam – 01-05-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Rotterdam Revisited After my last drawing of Rotterdam (Het Depot – 15-03-21) I thought it was time to do another drawing. I had something vague in mind: something impressionistic...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Sea swimming - 30-07-20, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Sea swimming - 30-07-20 One of those days. Sold something around midnight, did my regular things like website maintenance, teaching, eating and returning to my work in progress. B...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Clairobscur - 06-10-20, Drawing, Pastels on Pastel Sandpaper
Located in Yardley, PA
Clairobscur - 06-10-20 Clairobscur In 2013 I started this clairobscur lit nude and tucked it in one of pastel maps, only to forget about it for years and years. I remembered I was not quite satisfied by the color saturation and the color scheme itself. It leaned too much on the red and purple side. Besides that, the proportions were slightly off. Mishaps If you become curious right now, I have a whole bag of mishaps loitering about. It is one of the long and winding roads an artist has to take, especially when frantically looking for a style to call my own. In the meantime this kind of impressionism in hatched strokes I did a lot but once in a while it is fun to take it up once again. In fact posting 'Pastel Study 04 (2013)' reminded me to finish this one. Second Chance Sometimes you have to give a pastel a second chance or in other worlds...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Model Session - 16-10-20, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Model Session - 16-10-20 Yesterday's Model Session After my sketch of Louise Brooks - 10-10-20 I wanted to do more in my hatched strokes style. Yesterday's model session offered ...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Golden - 27-01-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Eldorado This nude pastel drawing in the Golden series resembles a previous pastel 'Nude - 02-02-19' a bit. However, I put the stress on skin hues in order to stay in line with the ...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Golden - 29-01-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Golden - 29-01-21 Addition to the Series After my previous pastel drawing I decided to do a totally different one. Not in hatched strokes but smoothed out I had in mind. My graphite pencil drawing 'Roundism - 31-03-20 (sold)'served as the motif. I was to execute it in bigger format anyway and thought that it could be an addition to the Golden Series. Yellow Since the start of my quest in pastel I did not work on yellow paper very often. For some reason yellow is very hard to work with, certainly because it is so dominant. I once read that Carel Willink...
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2010s Cubist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Golden - 01-02-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Golden - 01-02-21 One Color is No Color This pastel is in line with my previous pastel drawing 'Golden - 28-01-21' but that one looks rather monochrome. Time it was to add some m...
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2010s Cubist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Golden Purple - 07-02-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Half in Limbo This pastel drawing 'Golden Purple - 25-02-21' is based on a previous graphite pencil drawing 'Roundism - 14-09-19'. The latter I always liked because of its abstract ...
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2010s Cubist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Hatertse Vennen (Hatert Meres) - 16-05-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Lost and Found Again It has been a while since I wandered through the Hatert Meres (Hatertse Vennen). In 2014 to be precise. Hatert Meres 09 (2014) was my last pastel of that series...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Roundism – 18-01-18, Drawing, Pastels on Pastel Sandpaper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 18-01-18 Based on my previous graphite drawing ‘Roundism – 11-01-18’ I made this one in pastel, allowing me to study the female body covered in oil. I tried to ...
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2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Nude – 02-02-19, Drawing, Pastels on Pastel Sandpaper
Located in Yardley, PA
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 comp...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Model session – 17-01-19, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
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...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

The Japanese garden 1 (2014), Drawing, Pastels on Pastel Sandpaper
Located in Yardley, PA
The Japanese garden 2 (2014) The second of two pastels on the Japanese Garden at estate 'Clingendael' at The Hague, Netherlands. This one is as impressionistic as the first and I'...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

The Japanese garden 2 (2014), Drawing, Pastels on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
The Japanese garden 2 (2014) The second of two pastels on the Japanese Garden at estate 'Clingendael' at The Hague, Netherlands. This one is as impressionistic as the first and I'...
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2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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