Corne Akkers Art

Great Classic Face and Gorgeous Trained Body This pastel drawing ‘Model - 17-05-25 – 1’ depicts a woman with a great classic face and gorgeous trained body. All the more rea...

Something Special This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 19-08-25’ is something special. A cubist yet impressionist appearance that begun as an experiment indeed. My last ...

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 21-07-25’ is yet another display of darkening things up. As was the case in the last drawing by the way. Model Assia never ceases to in...

Reclined Position This pastel drawing ‘Model Session - 15-03-25 - 2’ shows model Renee in a reclined position. This is the way she prefers to sleep, she said. Only good for us...

Light and Fluffier This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 28-07-25’ is lighter and fluffier than last one. Finally, I managed to keep forms open again! Something similar t...

Perfectly Still This pastel drawing ‘Model - 15-03-25 - 1’ includes a young woman called ‘Renee’. She is a professional model who could lie still perfectly for one hour at...

The Same Position This pastel drawing ‘Model Session – 17-06-25 – 2’ is a cubist interpretation of beautiful model, called ‘Donika’. I aimed for an open structure. The...

Schall This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 02-03-25’ is inspired by a photograph of Roger Schall. Always loved his work. The model herself could be Assia. Back in the d...

Clairfontaine Ingres Paper This pastel drawing ‘nude Study – 10-11-25’ is a quick study done in one hour. A bit of impressionism tested on Clairfontaine’s Ingres paper. Ba...

Homage to Erin Olaf This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 20-09-23’ is a continuation of my recent quest. More than before I long for uniting all styles I invented or emp...

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....

Prankster This colored pencil drawing ‘Woman in a Red Kimono – 10-11-22’ answers the most frequently asked question of late. I thought this prank of the red kimono title given to monochrome drawings would be appreciated. However, there were many that took the bait and mailed me with regard to the total absence of red. To satisfy their whim down I finally made this drawing. Hmm, of course satisfying my own inner urge to return to colored pencils may be the cause as well. I always wanted to make something similar to a previous drawing, called ‘Julia – 11-09-18’. That one exceeded my expectations and the divisionalist result I found very exciting. In this one I skipped the cubist styling though. Hatching up As you can see the drawing was done in hatched strokes,deviating from the execution of the Louise Brooks drawing. Before 2015 I exclusively worked with hatching until I discovered Bristol paper allowing me to study smooth gradients. There was this one thing on my wish list...

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...

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...

Roundism – 22-09-20 Roundism Once More After an odd month doing other project it was time to do one in my roundism style again. Actually it was inevitable to do this piece in m...

Roundism – 05-07-18 I was very happy with the result of my latest session with my favorite model. She showed great triangular structures and edges. Besides that I have her use p...

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 ...

Roundism – 27-10-20 Just Abstract Last model session resulted in a nice pose through which I was inspired to continue my roundism series. The general idea was to build up the p...

Solarize It Again This graphite pencil drawing ‘Solarized Roundism – 02-03-23’ follows directly after one with the same name. You see, I quite got the hang of it. I’m tota...

A Bit of Extra Fun This graphite pencil drawing ‘Hold Your Horses – 04-01-22 was a done deal in my head already during the live session. That was the same one spawning ‘Julia...

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 ...

First Roundism of This Year This graphite pencil drawing ‘Roundism – 20-01-23’ is the first one of its kind this year. After ‘Venus Lamenting – 13-01-23’ I wanted to d...

A Second Tribute This graphite pencil drawing ‘Roundism (Tribute to Anita Ekberg) – 22-06-23’ is not my first homage to her. Some years ago I made a first one. People must h...

5 bestialities - 19-02-19 After my last drawing '11 bestialities - 09-02-19' I got the hang of it and decided to do once more. After all, when the artist's mind has been evoked, t...

A New Model This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 01-06-23’ serves as a caesura after my long series of landscapes and cityscapes. The last one depicting the Nieuwe Kerk ...

Endlessness This graphite pencil drawing ‘Sands of Time – 23-03-24’ follows exactly one month after my last one ‘Cleopatra – 23-02-24’. They both are part of my series...

Roundism – 30-01-18 In line with my previous graphite pencil drawing ‘Roundism – 11-01-18’ I rendered the model figure with such highlighted tones as if the skin was lube...

Solarization This graphite pencil drawing ‘Solarized Roundism – 26-11-21’ concerns a pose I had my model strike a couple of sessions ago. Strangely it takes me back a year a...

Meeting Julia It is time for the elevation of Julia Filament. Sunday 7th November I finally met her again and we went to the Singer Laren Museum. She is a fine artist, graphic des...

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Woman in a Red Kimono – 03-11-22’ counterparts the one I made last year cubistically. After ‘Roundism – 28-10-22’ I was out of motifs inspir...

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 ...

Solarised Look This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 09-04-24’ is the first one after a couple of pastel drawings. Seized by my currect oil painting in progress I kept th...

Another Golden One This colored pencil drawing ‘Golden Orange – 28-11-22’ is spawned by the same session as ‘Golden Shine’. Surely I had a lot of fun doing that one so w...

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...

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...

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...

Last One This Year This graphite pencil drawing ˜Roundism “ 30-12-22 is the last one of this year. After Neo Deco “ 25-12-22 I wanted to end this year in the style that brought me success the last decade. One could also argue that I just dont know where this particular style is heading for anyway. Surely I have this other thing, called ˜Neo Deco but I am not sure yet where this is going. Recently I wrote about my uncertainties with regard of serving something old as a new style. That is how it feels like, sort of. Maybe its just that I am trying to forge something out of dusty air of a bygone era. Its definitely a topic I want to delve much deeper into in 2023. For now I named all things round ˜roundism and cubistically straight things ˜neo deco. A pretty daft distinction perhaps. What do you think? Golden Ratio The motif for this actual work was derived from a reference picture taken by Walter Bird. The last one I used one of his photos for was Art Deco Nude “ 23-08-22. Even though the style of photographing is typically art deco I think his work stands out compared to many others. Not only did he use heavy doses of light and dark but also cropped nudes within the frame nicely. The result is a perfect bodyscape image. Due to the striking roundness of the breasts and tilted body position I thought drawing roundish shapes were almost unavoidable. I spotted some nice curves I extrapolated outside the female form. The ones besides her hip culminated into the golden ratio curves. A suitable ending for this year. The ending and the beginning of something entwined, as it should be. So is my search for the eternal and essential in the temporary. Graphite pencil (Faber Castell...

Darkening Things Up This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 17-07-25’ is all about darkening things up. Model Assia turned up in front of Ergy Landau’s camera in extreme ...

The Venus of The Hague – 09-07-20 Animals kept crawling in so it was inevitable to incorporate them into these series. The first one I saw was a lioness in her thight and second...

The Return of Lauren This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 18-10-23’ is a return to die hard art deco motifs. Initially I planned to draw more landscapes and I certainly ...

A Rather Extreme Pose This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco - 04-08-25’ is a special one. A rather extreme pose or should I say an extreme picture? That was the reason I was ...

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 ...

Inspirational This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 05-07-25’ shows Ukrainian model Assia Granatouroff once more. After my last drawing of her I felt inspired to do anoth...

Roundism – 15-11-20 More Complex The previous drawing Roundism – 06-11-20 was set up rather elementary, contary to this one. As you may know by now I like to vary and decided...

Bo Again This pastel drawing – 17-12-24 – 1 is the first one of this month’s live drawing and painting event. Held in municipal centre ‘De Blauwe Tram’ in Leidschendam a...

More than Cubism and Roundism This graphite pencil drawing ‘Cleopatra – 23-02-24’ refers to a work under the same name I made back in 2018. That year I started my ‘Out of...

Reclined Position This pastel drawing ‘Model Session - 22-04-25 (Jelco) – 2’ is the second pose of this month’s live model session. A reclined position to top it off. The ...

Third Drawing This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 29-08-23’ is a co-production with someone who calls himself ‘CapitalistTools’. A true enigmatic name! His profile ...

Back on Track This graphite pencil drawing ‘Nina – 05-09-23’ puts me back on track of studying this beautiful and intriguing model. For those who don’t want to miss out, y...

A Sort of a Cross-over This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 12-02-25’ makes a sort of a cross-over. My older ‘Roundism’ style meeting my new ‘Neo Deco’ one. Dema...

Experiment in Red This colored pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 24-03-25’ is an experiment in red. A bit of a cubist styling applied to a female form without applying red though. ...

Henriëtte Sibie’s Portrait This pastel drawing ‘Model Session – 18-10-25 – 2’ shows Henriëtte Sibie’s portrait. A bit of cubism but realist as well. My first session...

Angular Times The next one in the Risque series. After my previous colored pencil drawing ‘Risque – 18-01-22 I wanted to experiment with angular structures again. The reason is that I already did one in my roundism style (Risque – 11-01-22). One could say I was looking for yet another challenge. In the description to aforementioned drawing I wrote about cross-overs between abstraction and realism. This time it was time to set loose this ambition of mine on straight-edges plains. See if I can get away with a realistic impression wrapped in abstraction than it lets on at first glance. Flash Lightning The reference picture is taken during the session of December 30th 2021. That was a great one and I directly fell in love with her chair and rugged blanket. Notwithstanding her roundness by definition Julia happened to took this position with her arms spread. Her left leg was placed in a spectacular angled position. The result was a flash lightning, running from her toes up her leg and spine, branching towards her arms. The tonal rhythym of light and dark plains did the rest. I could not think of a better model and a better position. The Cat Executing the drawing and almost finished I felt something was missing though. It seemed the left corner did look a bit empty. It needed an introductory detail. There simply was only one thing that came to mind, almost automatically: her cat. She happens to have a Scottish Fold...

On the Brink of a New Year This pastel drawing ‘Neo Deco – 28-12-24’ is a test really. At Brugman Art I found this new mix media paper made by Clairfontaine. Sturdy and nice 250g/m2 paper that comes in different colours. Lately I am having fun doing pastels again. That must be have been motivated by last month’s live model drawing sessions held in ‘De Blauwe Tram’. So there I am, on the brink of a new year. All things in due order: a brand new page I built on my website and enough artworks created in December. After a couple of months I picked up oil painting again. My project ‘In Hoc Signo’, based on a drawing under the same name, is waiting for completion. In between I had some spare time to do a little drawing. This is the result. Need for Speed Another reason for this pastel drawing was the speed I made last pastels with: within one hour. It made me realize how much fun it is to create a sort of ‘on a whim’. Basically with the same intent I made ‘Neo Deco – 04-11-24’. There is no real innovation in these, only cubist styling I applied. That’s enough for me for the moment. Normally I always striving for incorporating something new. Just like some kind of genetic mutation in each consecutive work. However, not this time. Instead, I tried to feel how this new paper would react to my chalks. Quite nicely I must say. Green Paper The paper itself has not an impressive tooth but it clings on pigment particles efficiently nonetheless. My eye felt on the green paper in the block. The result is a bit magical. The female form I forged looks like a green bronze statue...

Another Fine Dutch One Time for a tribute to Lourens Alma Tadema and why not? Vermeer, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Mondriaan and De Kooning are house hold name...

Frustration This colored pencil drawing ‘Golden Shine – 21-11-22’ was drawn on a whim or was it? Today I got up with some mixed emotions. Yesterday I toiled all day long in ...

My Compliments This graphite pencil drawing ‘Third Rock from the Sun – 15-02-24’ I wanted to create for a long time. However, caught up in some projects in oil I had some ti...

Golden Reality – 14-09-20 Golden Reality My last drawing was slightly cubistic but today I did this realistic one, that I would like to name ‘Golden Reality’. Realism is no...

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...

Consecutive Drawing This graphite pencil drawing ‘Delft – 24-03-23’ follows directly after my last one. In my art statement that goes with it I already told something about ...