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Item Ships From: Benelux
An archeological memory of Bettie Page – 13-11-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pen
By Corne Akkers
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 Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Oudaen – 26-11-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Oudaen – 26-11-18 Last year I was at Oudaen, a city castle at Utrecht, Netherlands which now is a crowdy hotspot for party people. I was dining near the window in the corner wit...
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Initiatrix – 03-12-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Initiatrix – 03-12-18 The third art work in my new series on Egypt. I experimented with my personal style ‘roundism’ in combination with realism and surrealism. I also used ...
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Nights over Egypt – 13-11-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Nights over Egypt – 13-11-18 I found this picture of Jenna J. Ross on Instagram and I liked it a lot. It was dark and blue. I found it fit for my Egypt project and decided to tu...
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

La Langue Verte – 14-12-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
La Langue Verte – 14-12-18 I liked the triangular position of the model’s body and put her in an Egyptian scenery, thinking of my roundism style relating to hieroglyphics and ...
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Cleopatra – 22-12-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Cleopatra – 22-12-18 When I saw the reference picture I was inspired to turn the model sitting in a bath with lots of foam around her, into a donkey milk bath with Cleopatra in ...
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Bastet – 01-01-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Bastet – 01-01-19 My Egyptian series is an addition to my ‘j’accuse’ painting ‘The Revelation of Bettie Page’. My New Year’s resolution for this year: I dare all alg...
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

One thing in another – 05-01-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

The Peace Pace at The Hague – 04-02-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Pape
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
The Peace Pace at The Hague – 04-02-19 The reference picture I used I took last year at the brink of spring. Since this (today – 4nd February 2019) was a particularly windy an...
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2010s Impressionist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

11 bestial qualities – 09-02-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
11 bestial qualities – 09-02-19 One thing in another. I try to see it all the time. Sometimes I fail, another time I see more clearly. Hitting almost 50 I begin to realize that ...
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

5 bestialities - 19-02-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
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 e...
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Voorschoten – 11-03-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Voorschoten – 11-03-19 Last year I was walking through sunny Voorschoten, a town in the north to where I live. I saw an attractive cityscape appearing in one of the streets, too...
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 26-03-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Veere – 04-04-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Zierikzee – 16-04-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Zierikzee – 16-04-19 The first great day of Spring has arrived and my mood for landscape painting and drawing still is growing. I am heading for Zeeland soon and to warm up I ma...
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2010s Impressionist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

The nude portal – 03-07-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Julia – 02-08-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Roundism – 14-09-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Model session – 23-12-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Model session – 23-12-19 My regular model comes to visit me every month and this time I had the plan to put only two small LED light sources around her. I took a kind of ‘mini...
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2010s Impressionist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 11-01-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Roundism – 30-01-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

The premonition of Bettie Page – 08-02-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on P
By Corne Akkers
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 Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Emulsion

The golden ratio – 29-02-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Roundism – 16-03-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Veere – 26-03-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Roundism – 29-03-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 31-03-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Oosterbeek – 07-04-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
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...
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2010s Impressionist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Oosterbeek – 07-04-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Oosterbeek – 07-04-20 The second one of Oosterbeek this week and I chose a specific spot in the park where there is a bend in brook running through it. I found the reflections o...
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2010s Impressionist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 27-04-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 27-04-20 The next drawing in my solarized roundism series. It forms a transition from my previous abstracted cubist geometry towards a crossover to realism and surrea...
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

The Venus of The Hague – 09-07-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
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...
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

The Venus of The Hague – 23-07-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
The Venus of The Hague – 23-07-20 Being a deep sea fish a coelacanth hardly ever come face to face with a white shark way up high but sometimes it does. If so, what would you ex...
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Sea swimming – 30-07-20, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Batenburg – 02-08-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Batenburg – 02-08-20 As you may know I often wander about and astray through landscapes I have never been before or in this particular case I know all too well. Batenburg is not...
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2010s Impressionist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 10-08-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 10-08-20 Sometimes the body position defines the style of rendering. That is why this drawing came with triangles and diagonals because of the model’s triangular po...
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2010s Contemporary Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Golden brown – 24-08-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Golden brown – 24-08-20 New paper experiment The other day I bought new paper by Talens (Toned Colour Mix): a sturdy dark blue sheet perfect for colored pencil and pastel stick...
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2010s Cubist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Bedside Moonlighting – 31-08-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Bedside Moonlighting – 31-08-20 On the Bedside My model and I were looking for intesting poses and on the bedside there it was: a beautiful one with some interesting lighting. ...
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2010s Impressionist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Monkey See, Monkey Do – 05-09-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Monkey Business In all of us there is a monkey tucked deep inside. How about your monkey business? What will you do when beautiful girls run on the beach? Where does human nature st...
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Solarized Geometry – 10-09-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Solarized Geometry – 10-09-20 Solarized Geometry After my drawing Roundism – 29-08-20 it was time to delve into this type of solarized geometry. The latter is about propertie...
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2010s Cubist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Notenboompark – 18-09-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Notenboompark – 18-09-20 Notenboompark The shortest way to my studio where I teach is via the Prins Bernhardlaan in Voorburg, Netherlands but once in a while I take a slight de...
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2010s Contemporary Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Beek-Ubbergen – 28-09-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Beek-Ubbergen – 28-09-20 Beek-Ubbergen Just outside Nijmegen towards the German border there are two places of beauty called the Ooij Polder and the start of the ‘Nijmeegse H...
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2010s Impressionist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Beek-Ubbergen – 01-10-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Beek-Ubbergen – 01-10-20 50 Hues of Pink Beek-Ubbergen again and 50 shades of pink in honour of the fact that colour is highly underestimated in landscapes and outdoors in gene...
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2010s Impressionist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roundism – 23-11-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 23-11-20 Diagonals, Horizontals and Verticals A new roundism variation in diagonals, horizontals and verticals. Sometimes you come across a great motif that stimulat...
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2010s Cubist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

On the Beach – 11-12-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
On the Beach – 11-12-20 Old Vintage Photo Years ago I saved a vintage picture of a nude on the beach. Origin unknown and my best guess would b...
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2010s Cubist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

The Proud Brothers – 04-01-21, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
The Proud Brothers – 04-01-21 The Bigger the Lie How can The Blues Brothers turn into The Proud Brothers? That is simple enough. Take a big country and turn it into a madhouse....
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Golden – 27-01-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Rotterdam – 01-05-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Golden Shine - 21-11-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
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 ...
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2010s Impressionist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Solarized Roundism – 02-03-23, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
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...
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2010s Cubist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

A Non AI-Driven Neo Deco Celebrity Nude – 09-03-23, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pe
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Even at the Mauritshuis This graphite pencil drawing ‘A Non AI-Driven Neo Deco Celebrity Nude – 09-03-23’ is something different or is it? Inspired by a smashing reference picture I was although I don’t know its origins. There are so many art deco pictures...
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2010s Art Deco Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Free Gouda! - 25-08-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Free Gouda! - 25-08-18 I was walking on a Sunday afternoon, the last very hot one of this summer and the central square was deserted. No one was there because of the dying heat an...
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Gouda - 11-08-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Gouda - 11-08-18 Last week I was walking in the direction of Museum Gouda to visit the exhibition 'From Gauguin to Toorop' when I saw this canal adjacent to the museum, opposite t...
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Sans titre - 26-10-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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. I ...
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2010s Contemporary Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Aquatic superbeing - 06-11-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 profe...
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2010s Contemporary Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

An archeological memory of Bettie Page - 13-11-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Penci
By Corne Akkers
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 it for quite some time but finally saw a great looking sphinx coming from her arm. The difficulty was to create three different images in one: her body, the sphinx and also the incorporation of the fox / dog figure I used before...
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2010s Contemporary Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Oudaen - 26-11-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Oudaen - 26-11-18 Last year I was at Oudaen, a city castle at Utrecht, Netherlands which now is a crowdy hotspot for party people. I was dining near the window in the corner with ...
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Initiatrix - 03-12-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Initiatrix - 03-12-18 The third art work in my new series on Egypt. I experimented with my personal style 'roundism' in combination with realism and surrealism. I also used a previous theme the 'holy vortex' and my theory on singularities. The new element is the ancient carved block patina, giving it a layered and also surrealistic look. Vortices as a result of the application of the golden ratio already were recognized and employed by the old Egyptians...
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Nights over Egypt - 13-11-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Nights over Egypt - 13-11-18 I found this picture of Jenna J. Ross on Instagram and I liked it a lot. It was dark and blue. I found it fit for my Egypt project and decided to turn...
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2010s Surrealist Benelux - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

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