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Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
Period: 21st Century and Contemporary
"Cleromancy II" . Contemporary Ink Painting On 19th Century Paper
Located in Brecon, Powys
Ink on 19th Century Paper If painting, like any other language, can be considered an abstract system of signs, there must be a pictorial vocabulary and syntactical rules which commu...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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India Ink, Archival Paper

Primavera Pop Five, Geometric Flower Mandala, Bright Pink, Yellow, Green, Blue
Located in Kent, CT
This multicolored drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Primavera Pop 5 is a geometric flower mandala shape with delica...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Rag Paper, Pigment

The Hague Forest – 21-06-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
The Hague Forest – 21-06-18 When I ride my bike through The Hague Forest (Haagse Bos) just around the corner I see only beauty. Leafy light and shadow play. But at one time I bi...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 10-09-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 10-09-19 I saw this great vintage picture of a nude on the roof top of an open van and I liked the styled planes it already showed: the squares in the open door, some...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Blue Script - Contemporary Abstract Expressive Oil Pastel Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Janusz Kokot was born in Kalisz in 1960. He studied at the Pedagogical University in Częstochowa at the Art Institute. He practices painting and drawing. In the years 1988 - 2020 he ...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel

X from The Message Series - Contemporary Abstract Oil Pastel Painting, Framed
Located in Salzburg, AT
The art work is already framed. The size of the unframed artwork: 45x45 cm, framed 47 x 47 cm Janusz Kokot was born in Kalisz in 1960. He studied at the Pedagogical University in C...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel

S from The Message Series - Contemporary Abstract Oil Pastel Painting, Framed
Located in Salzburg, AT
The art work is already framed. They are simple silver frames The size of the unframed artwork: 45x45 cm, framed 47 x 47 cm Janusz Kokot was born in Kalisz in 1960. He studied at th...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel

Roundism – 04-06-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 04-06-18 I was attracted by the musculature of the model’s back and wanted also to map this even more by emphasizing the oblique position of the torso by means of a...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Untitled Women and man. Pencil on archival paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled, 1997 by Celso Castro-Daza Pencil on archival paper Image size: 39 in. H x 48 in. W Sheet size: 45 in. H x 59 in. W Unique Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some ...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil, Archival Paper

Roundism – 10-03-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 10-03-20 The Corona virus roams around Planet Earth and holds everyone tightly in its grip. Everybody stays put and I almost feel suffering from a locked-in syndrom, ...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Aquatic superbeing – 06-11-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Aquatic superbeing – 06-11-18 This drawing is all about the aquatic qualities of the body of a woman. I feel it to be a privilege to look at female buttocks being part of my pro...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Sans titre – 01-05-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Sans titre – 01-05-18 This is the first art statement on a drawing I wrote before completing it. It is time to express my dissatisfaction with today’s modern art. Having visit...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Sans titre - 09-05-14, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Sans titre - 09-05-14 In my 'sans titre' series it was obvious that eye charmer Audrey Hepburn couldn't be missed so I did her cubistically too. Graphite pencil drawing (Pentel...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

An archeological memory of Bettie Page – 13-11-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pen
Located in Yardley, PA
An archeological memory of Bettie Page – 13-11-18 The reference picture I used was slightly different from the one I used for ‘The revelation of Bettie Page (2018)’. I kept ...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

New York City Jazz Club by Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Ode to master bassman and composer Lincoln Schleifer from the New York music scene. Sax's look into his head with the musicians seeing, breathing and enveloped by the music. Yet ag...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Gouache

“Love is in the Air” ultramarine blue nude couple by Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
“Love is in the Air” Nude couple in embrace. Original drawing with blue ultramarine tempera on paper. Size 27.5x19.5in / 70x50cm . Shipped rolled in a tube, well packed. Get free...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Tempera

Roundism – 16-01-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 16-01-19 Last August international dancer and model Julia Gómez Avilés came over to my studio where we, together with fellow artist Julia Filement, had a wonderful live session. This drawing is from a reference picture I took during that session. My aim was to prolong my search...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 12-04-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 12-04-18 In the model I saw a great looking egg on her buttocks and thigh. Since Spring has arrived I took the liberty to freely meditate on a nude woman, however cub...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 08-05-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 08-05-18 I found this great reference picture on which the model was heavily backlit, distorting her figure in the centre of it. That was the starting point of findin...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Bettie Page - 19-05-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Bettie Page - 19-05-18 I found this great early picture of a young Bettie Page posing before her pin-up days of fame. Like all previous reference pictures this one shows great li...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Nude, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Painting: Ink and Acrylic on Paper. Nude 001 Nude Woman Ink & Acrylic on 140 lb / 300 g paper (acid free). Certificate of authenticity provided. This Nude painting will be...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen

Lorelei – 12-07-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Lorelei – 12-07-18 I always tell my students that art is about seeing one thing in another, just like tasting wine and describing it by comparing to something completely differe...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 17-07-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 17-07-18 Another session with my model and I used an unusual point of view: above her and it took the challenge to capture the foreshortened shapes of her body. Lucki...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Summer in Holland – 25-07-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Summer in Holland – 25-07-18 In the dead of summer it is so hot here in The Hague I had double vision. That is why I serve two women for the price of one. Graphite pencil dra...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

The nude portal – 03-07-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
The nude portal – 03-07-19 As you may have noticed by now I am keen on vortices. They show an endless sequence of swirls, almost like a singularity. Some say they lead the way t...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Fluctus 3 - Blue grey black abstract seascape paper collage on wood board
Located in New York, NY
Marie Laforey is a self-taught artist based in New York, US who maintains a sustainable art practice using primarily organic material. Laforey enjoys the tactility of working with or...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Archival Paper

Sans titre – 26-10-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Sans titre – 26-10-18 When I was looking at the reference picture of Angie Dickinson my colleague at Studio Brugman, Gilbert said her face looked almost chiseled like a statue. ...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

The premonition of Bettie Page – 08-02-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on P
Located in Yardley, PA
The premonition of Bettie Page – 08-02-20 My painting ‘The Restoration of Bettie Page’ heads for its final stage of completion. It just feels right to announce the birth of ...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Emulsion

The golden ratio – 29-02-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
The golden ratio – 29-02-20 This drawing came into existence very intuitively. I concluded some major projects and I always have a drawing in progress, waiting for my students i...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

De Koepel (The Dome) at Voorburg – 01-11-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on
Located in Yardley, PA
De Koepel (The Dome) at Voorburg – 01-11-18 When I go to teach at Studio Brugman, atVoorburg I often come across The Dome (De Koepel), situated in the middle of estate ‘Vreugd...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Veere – 24-03-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Veere – 24-03-20 These unusual times cause people to search for new ways to keep their minds busy. Some told me they binge watch or take virtual tours online, others turn to boo...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

American Contemporary Art by David Paul Kay - Untitled 4
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on paper David Paul Kay is an American contemporary artist born in 1982 who lives and works in New York City, USA. With a focus on vibrant lines and intricate compositions, Kay ...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

One thing in another – 05-01-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
One thing in another – 05-01-19 In my egyptian series I try to excavate treasures from the past. Like I said before I see strong resemblances with Egyptian art that presented hu...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 26-03-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 26-03-19 The sheets on my duvet on which my model lay show nice checkered patterns. Her body contrasted them quite nicely and I decided to exploit this to the max. I ...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Veere – 04-04-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Veere – 04-04-19 Last weekend I was walking through Veere at Zeeland, Netherlands, a little pittoresque town. I returned to my car when I saw the sign ‘city wall tour’ and I...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 16-10-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 16-10-19 After a bunch of landscapes and cityscapes I felt it was time to return to my roundism ladies. For me changing the theme once in a while is very useful. I fo...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Julia – 02-08-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Julia – 02-08-19 Last year I used dancer Julia Gómez Avilés as a model. Next to being a wonderful person for an artist she is ideal because of her flexibility. She can pose in...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

The Look. Ostritch, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
This ostritch was a great subject to paint. what a look !! :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready ...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Roundism – 14-09-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 14-09-19 Man Ray’s solarization was on my mind when I made this one. Mondriaan also was because he strived for an ideal division of planes in a certain space. Next ...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 25-12-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 25-12-19 December 25th for many people is a holiday. As to me, I just keep on drawing and this one I made this afternoon at my parent’s home. Just a quick intermezz...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 11-01-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 11-01-20 Of late I was busy painting ‘The Restoration of Bettie Page’ and since a month or so drawings do not sprout from my pencil that often. But sometimes you ...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 30-01-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 30-01-20 A second prestudy for a commissioned piece, combining symbolic shapes with my personal roundism style. For some reason this one got a little realistic, even ...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 16-03-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 16-03-20 Since Corona has brought a new reality and forces so many countries to lock down, there is nothing much left for me but to teach some of the students that ha...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Veere – 26-03-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Veere – 26-03-20 After my walkabout through Veere I got back to the parking lot when I saw mill ‘De Koe’ just outside the historical centre. My mind was not fixed on any sty...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 29-03-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 29-03-20 These times I miss my model and look forward to have her over to sit for me again. In the meantime I make do with pictures from previous sessions although li...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 31-03-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 31-03-20 In my last drawing ‘Roundism – 29-03-20’ I employed the technique of solarisation again. It turned out to be a rather realistic one and so I decided to...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 04-04-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 04-04-20 This is my third solarized drawing I did since a long time and represents my regular model I know for years. Areas that catch the most solarization are the h...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 12-06-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 12-06-18 It is time to put down a kind of art statement for a change. Lately I came to think about my kind of art a lot, inspired by comments and questions like what ...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

American Contemporary Art by David Paul Kay - Untitled 3
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on paper David Paul Kay is an American contemporary artist born in 1982 who lives and works in New York City, USA. With a focus on vibrant lines and intricate compositions, Kay ...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Danse Macabré - Paint by Parimah Avani - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Danse Macabré is a drawing realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2023. Sumi and Persian ink, and acrylic on traditional Lokta Hymalian paper "Nepali Kagaj". Hand-si...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Sumi Ink, Acrylic

Fluctus 5 - Red grey brown abstract seascape paper collage on wood board
Located in New York, NY
Marie Laforey is a self-taught artist based in New York, US who maintains a sustainable art practice using primarily organic material. Laforey enjoys the tactility of working with or...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Archival Paper

Roundism – 17-04-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 17-04-18 In this drawing I tried to combine the edgy triangular bodyscapes with a circular movement of the model. Although the reference picture did not sbow much con...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Sans titre - 21-04-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Sans titre - 21-04-18 When I saw a picture of a young Catherine Deneuve I immediately saw the potential for my roundism style. The challenge was to capture the cool distant look i...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 30-05-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 30-05-18 This drawing is all about the sensuality of the female figure. Even though the model did not show too much tonal bandwith I was able to discover some real gr...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Yellow Landscape Abstract Drawing - Original Art Made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Red Landscape mineral oxide on paper (canson Paper 300gr) 30x40 cm Original Art Authenticity certificate one of a kind Marilina Marchica, born in 1984, was born in Agrigento, where...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

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