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Item Ships From: Netherlands
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...
Category

2010s Surrealist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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...
Category

2010s Surrealist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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...
Category

2010s Surrealist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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...
Category

2010s Impressionist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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...
Category

2010s Impressionist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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...
Category

2010s Contemporary Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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...
Category

2010s Cubist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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. ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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...
Category

2010s Surrealist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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...
Category

2010s Cubist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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...
Category

2010s Contemporary Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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 Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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 Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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...
Category

2010s Cubist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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...
Category

2010s Cubist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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....
Category

2010s Surrealist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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...
Category

2010s Impressionist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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...
Category

2010s Impressionist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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 ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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...
Category

2010s Cubist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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...
Category

2010s Art Deco Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Lulu - 12-07-23, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Something Different This graphite pencil drawing ‘Louise Brooks – 12-07-23’ is something different. That is, compared to the previous one. Up to now I used only regular refe...
Category

2010s Cubist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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...
Category

2010s Surrealist Netherlands - 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...
Category

2010s Surrealist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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 ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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...
Category

2010s Contemporary Netherlands - 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...
Category

2010s Contemporary Netherlands - 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 ...
Category

2010s Surrealist Netherlands - 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 Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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 Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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 Egyptian arts in general. I always liked the intense need for styling and I consider the depictions of the human body by the old...
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2010s Surrealist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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 it...
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2010s Surrealist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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 algorithms of soc...
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2010s Surrealist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Roundism - 16-01-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 li...
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2010s Contemporary Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Isis - 25-01-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Isis - 25-01-19 Some time ago I saw underwater excavation pictures of Heracleion, an ancient Egyptian city submerged. I always thought to return to my painting 'Loving the Alien' ...
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2010s Surrealist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

The Peace Pace at The Hague - 04-02-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
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 and co...
Category

2010s Impressionist Netherlands - 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 th...
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2010s Surrealist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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 evoked, t...
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2010s Surrealist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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, took ...
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2010s Surrealist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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 al...
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2010s Contemporary Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

The artist and his model - 31-03-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
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...
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2010s Surrealist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Nieuwe Veenmolen - 19-10-17, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Nieuwe Veenmolen - 19-10-17 A drawing of the 'Nieuwe Veenmolen' (MIll 'Nieuwe Veen') at The Hague, a place around the corner from where I live. I liked to depict the plants on the...
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2010s Contemporary Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Roundism - 10-09-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
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 r...
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2010s Contemporary Netherlands - 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 to t...
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2010s Contemporary Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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 'minimali...
Category

2010s Impressionist Netherlands - 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 im...
Category

2010s Contemporary Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

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 in ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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 style but...
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2010s Contemporary Netherlands - 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 way...
Category

2010s Impressionist Netherlands - 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 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 of ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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 surreali...
Category

2010s Surrealist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil, Carbon 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 t...
Category

2010s Surrealist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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 expe...
Category

2010s Surrealist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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. B...
Category

2010s Impressionist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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 f...
Category

2010s Impressionist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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 position. There was only light from the left and perhaps you guessed it by now: the same LED light and model from the Venus of The Hague series. I liked doing a series of repetitive diagonals starting from the shin...
Category

2010s Contemporary Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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 sticks....
Category

2010s Cubist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

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. So...
Category

2010s Impressionist Netherlands - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

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