Still Gloomy This graphite pencil drawing ‘Castle ‘De Wittenburg’ – 14-03-23’ is a sound cry for Spring. Dates put in former drawings indicate I sometimes started to draw outside in early March already. For the next coming week there will be nothing but rain under gray skies unfortunately. Winter will keep its claws in us for a longer time, I’m afraid. Unfortunately I will be attending the grand Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum accompanied by lousy weather next Sunday. However, the light already has changed dramatically, here in The Netherlands. Outside it stays light longer and it’s not so blueish anymore, compared to the month of November. Therefor I have decided to do a landscape now in a desperate attempt to enforce good outdoors sketching conditions. A Quick Sketch Of course, there are other reasons to do landscapes and cityscapes. Suddenly I realized it was quite some time ago I did my last one back in August. The one before that in small A5 size outdoors was made in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel in July last year. Surely those Faber Castell Pitt Graphite Matt pencils are the boss. I missed sketching with my old 0.5 mm mechanical pen though. See what I could get doing a quick sketch under one or two hours. That’s a welcome change from the large Psyche & Amor painting I have been working on for months now. That moloch is almost finished but sucks up a lot of artistic enery. Much to the detriment of my creative ambitions that want to drive me further. De Wittenburg Speaking of gloom still being winter I found the perfect reference picture. It’s Castle De Wittenburg in Wassenaar, Netherlands. There it lies in the middle of the so-called ‘estates route’ in a forest near to my home. Often have I dwelled there in its surroundings, looking for artistic motifs. I also happen to know the castle itself from a friend’s wedding and legal seminars back in the 90s. Always on my to do list and now was the time. I simply just love doing castles.

Castle ‘De Wittenburg’ – 14-03-23

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Typical Dutch Scenery This graphite pencil drawing ‘Schiedam – 06-04-26’ shows the city in its realist glory or does it? Well, realism is preserved even though elephants dwell there too. Let me explain. A year back I was visiting the town for a trip to the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. The Adya and Otto exhibition was on and we looked forward to seeing their lovely artworks in real life. His more abstract work is one of my inspirational sources for my own cubist works. Always a treat to visit this museum and when we got out we walked down the Lange Haven again in search for a bite to eat. There I saw this incredible scenery across the water near the Taanbrug. Foreigner surely would call this a typical dutch landscape: a canal, 17th century houses and spritsail barges. I quickly made a photo for rainy days to come. A Bit of Magic A year later such a rainy day came indeed. Since my last small series of square-sized cubist nudes I still didn’t find the right occasion to sketch outdoors. Then I remembered this photo and I thought I’d make a shot at it. At least it’s a landscape and perhaps forcefully execute one in graphite causes the weather to improve. After all, it’s spring and we the dutch long to go outside, sitting on terraces and walk in nature. This little project came easy, just a matter of getting the tonal values right. Somehow I didn’t feel like applying my personal cubist style this time. The majority of previous drawings I made in the Schiedam Series were cubistic more or less. However, realism in its pure essence doesn’t say much to me. Never has, never will. Why wouldn’t my dutch elephants decide to visit Schiedam too and so they did! Graphite pencil (Tombow Zoom 707, 0.5 mm, Pentel 4B) drawing on Talens Bristol paper (29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm) Artist: Corné Akkers

Schiedam – 06-04-26

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First months in my new studio: space, light, air. The work moves with it — breaking free from the wall, suspended between strength and fragility. 3 x 5 meters.
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Salon artistique Bientôt au palais des congrès du Touquet ( France)j’y présente 4 tableaux de ma série retour aux sources.
Soon exhibition at le touquet
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De Koepel This colored pencil drawing ‘De Koepel (The Dome) in Voorburg – 01-11-18’ is in color again after the last one. Strangely I just felt like doing that. Let me tell you why. When I go to teach at Studio Brugman, at Voorburg I often come across The Dome (De Koepel). It is situated in the middle of neat little estate, called ‘Vreugd en Rust’. When I saw the autumn sun burst through the trees I dreamt myself a link to the ‘inner necessity’. This was felt by people like Alexej von Jawlensky and Kadinsky from the ‘Blaue Reiter’ movement. 1 + 1 equals two: that very sun and the exhibition I visited last Sunday at the Gemeentemuseum. There I saw all Alexej’s works. Such culmunated into this piece, rather expressionistic of nature, in which I expressed my own inner necessity. Technique My graphite pencil drawing ‘Het Oude Hof – 20-10-18’ was the last landscape piece I did. This time I felt this urgent (inner) need to use colored pencil to depict sunlight. The combination with color and my roundism style makes this one unique. That is because I never did something similar in the past. The color scheme is relatively simple: red, greens, purples and yellows. That makes two complementary color combinations responsible for a maximal luministic result. Of course I should do more in the future. Were it not for other ideas that keep coming all the time. This having said, I noticed I keep coming back to colored pencil once in a while. A move to expressionism I would say. Perhaps more frequently in the future? Colored pencil drawing (Faber Castell, Albrecht Dürer) on Strathmore drawing paper (21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm - A4 format) Artist: Corné Akkers

De Koepel (The Dome) in Voorburg – 01-11-18

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Return to Stardom This grapite pencil drawing ‘Sans Titre – 27-07-023’ is a return to stardom once more. Veronica Lake was the last one in the series. Louise Brooks I consider a series and world in her own right. Of course a star as well. Audrey Hepburn however I drew only once, almost a decade ago. In fact, it’s one of those drawing I started my new cubism revolution with. Wouldn’t you agree it was about time I’d do another portrait of her? You know, my cubist style has evolved throughout the years. See what my roundism style could do this time. Forms and Ideas Somehow I keep returning to this almost hazy vision of keeping things fluffy and airy lately. I think I succeeded doing (or keeping) that in my drawing of Veronika. Surely I have described this feeling a couple of times before. It’s a quality I always have honored Cézanne for. I sum it up concisely for those who haven’t read previous art statement on the topic. Transparency and forms unfinished I consider a kind of start of an open discussion with spectators. They have to complete them in their minds. My theory entails a more comprehensive definition of what reality is, something more meaningful perhaps. Things with names attached are nothing more than forms. By half completing them this will trigger more imagination because that is what reality basically is. Airy and Openess Consequently it’s birth of kind of überrealism, way beyond the extent of photorealism. By showing less there’s more imagination and thus more than meets the eye. As to the depiction itself initially I didn’t know what to do with the turtleneck she’s wearing. I was afraid of hatching the attire to a complete blackness and also doing that with the hair. That only would make both structures to appear lumpy. Hence I kept forms open and made all forms only partially dark. In order to have her communicate with the white negative space I kept forms open.

Sans Titre – 27-07-23 (Audrey Hepburn)

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Sans Titre – 26-10-18 (Angie Dickinson)

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