Corne Akkers Art

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...

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...

Oosterbeek – 07-04-20 I always find it difficult to draw an impressionistic blossom tree without falling back to depict branches and the blossom in a rather symbolic or linear w...

Geesje Kwak – 12-07-21 A Portrait of Geesje A day ago I experimented with Art Graf. I was quite surprized and therefor I thought it would be nice to do a portrait of Geesje Kwak. There are only some odd 15 pictures...

Back to Sketching This graphite pencil drawing ‘Solarized Roundism – 01-07-22’ is a welcome change from oil painting. After the completion of ‘Geesje Kwak and the Secret o...

The artist and his model - 31-03-19 This drawing is a protest and and prestudy altogether. The latter for the sake of a bigger painting and the first because I need to be more cle...

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...

In a Garden Breitner took a couple of pictures of her in some backyard, perhaps his own. Who knows? They are a bit grainy and it might be the same spot as in my graphite pencil dr...

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 ...