Darja Collin – 29-09-22 (sold)

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Natural Beauty This graphite pencil drawing ‘Darja Collin – 29-09-22’ follows directly after the previous one of her. I already did a portrait of her some days earlier. Sometimes a beauty by the likes of her simply can’t let go. Doing a series of her it almost becomes an obsession. Strangely only now I finally can step in Slauerhoff’s shoes and feel what it is like to love her. Not a strange tale because she is a looker. But there’s more. Artist like me are not attracted to women because we are horny devils. Maybe we are but in her particular case I’m also attracted to her features in an artistic way. Something to do with the concept of the quan for those who saw Jerry Maguire. It’s that totality of beauty, attraction, artistic feel, potential and creativity. Enough said. Girlish Look The previous portrait was ‘en profil’ and I consider it a prestudy to this one. I was not completely satisfied with that drawing. Even though it resembled the reference picture the scare amount of photos showed different aspects of her facial expression. ‘En face’ she looks quite different and there some kind of girlish beauty lies. She has these roundly shaped eyes and a conal shaped face that drives men like me mad. The promise of a young girl, shaped in a grown-up body. I almost feel like Renoir who depicted women the same way. No, no, not feeling guilty! Tonality The reference picture was a bit pale so I beefed up the tonality considerably, increasing it dramatically. After that I blocked in her facial features by blocks of dark planes. Those are the dress below and the hair parts left and right. I liked doing the hairs accented with small dark strokes, contrasting the face. Now I come to think of it: It’s time to close this series before it becomes a true obsession. Pitt Graphite Matt pencil (Faber-Castell) drawing on Fabriano Ingres paper (21 x 28.2 x 0.1 cm) Artist: Corné Akkers

Darja Collin – 29-09-22 (sold) was created by artist Corne Akkers in 2022. This art piece , which is part of the Drawings - Corne Akkers portfolio, is a Drawings / Sketch artwork. The style of this artwork is best described as Cubism, Fine Art. The genre portrayed in this piece of art is Anatomy, Composition, Figurative, Inspirational, Portrait. The artwork was created in Pencil. The size of the original art is 28 (cms) H x 21 (cms) W.
Words which artist Corne Akkers feels best describe this work of art are: arte, art, arta, artista, artiste, artist, darjacollin, 1920s, 1930s, artdeco, deco, chiaroscuro, print, artprint, poster, artposter, celebrity, portrait, portraiture, cubism, cubisme, アート, الرسم, кубизм, Κυβισμός, فن, 艺术, कला, clairobscur, creative, inspiration, dutch, finearts, graphite, iloveart, drawing, pencildrawing, pencil, bleistift, crayon, cubiste, искусство, cubismo, cubistic, kubismi, lậpthể, 입체파, ਘਣਵਾਦ, مذهب, קוביזם, 立體主義, キュビズム, արվեստ.

About Corne Akkers

My work can be seen in many countries all over the world. I employ a variety of styles that all have one thing in common: the ever search for the light on phenomena and all the shadows and light planes they block in. My favorites in doing so are oil paint, dry pastel and graphite pencil. It is not the form or the theme that counts but the way planes of certain tonal quality vary and block in the lights. Colours are relatively unimportant and can take on whatever scheme. It is the tonal quality that is ever present in my work, creating the illusion of depth and mass on a flat 2d-plane. I combine figurative work with the search for abstraction because neither in extremo can provide the desired art statement the public expects from an artist. Besides all that, exaggeration and deviation is the standard and results in a typical use of a strong colour scheme and a hugh tonal bandwith, in order to create art that, when the canvas or paper would be torn into pieces, in essence still would be recognizable. ​​

I teach art (drawing / painting) at Voorburg, Netherlands where I have my second studio next to my first at The Hague, Netherlands, where I live.