Golden - 29-01-21 Addition to the Series After my previous pastel drawing I decided to do a totally different one. Not in hatched strokes but smoothed out I had in mind. My graphite pencil drawing ‘Roundism – 31-03-20 (sold)’served as the motif. I was to execute it in bigger format anyway and thought that it could be an addition to the Golden Series. Yellow Since the start of my quest in pastel I did not work on yellow paper very often. For some reason yellow is very hard to work with, certainly because it is so dominant. I once read that Carel Willink did not like it and/or adviced people to use it only in small quantities. In portraits it can make people look rather sick and that can be drag, unless you want Fauvism. Give it a Shot Then again, I took a closer look at my oil painting ‘Chinese Girl (2012)’ again and came to the conclusion that I had to give yellow a shot. After all, I had some Clairfontaine Pastel Mat sheets in yellow. They were not used yet and ‘Golden’ was on the menu right now. Besides that, the oil painting proved that if the overall base color is yellow it looks rather monochrome than yellow. The conclusion I drew was that yellow only shows its dominant face in relation to other colors. Color Scheme My yellow intentions caused me to pick up a yet unused yellow Unison stick. I did the bulk with that and added a lot of black in the darkest tonal regions. Later I added Unison purple extra dark next to the darkest tones. I look at some pictures of the nude in the Goldfinger movie. That is where I detected some dull greens, orange-like yellows and brownish oranges. Last but not least I added some Schmincke’s gold pastel touches. Unfortunately the golden sprinkles only can be detected when you move laterally in front of the drawing. Although I added all these other colors the pastel still looks monochrome which was my intention. Pastel drawing on Clairfontaine Pastel Mat paper (69.4 x 49.8 x 0.1 cm) Artist: Corné Akkers
Golden - 28-01-21 was created by artist Corne Akkers in 2021. This art piece , which is part of the Pastels - Corne Akkers portfolio, is a Drawings / Sketch artwork. The style of this artwork is best described as Cubism, Fine Art, Futurism. The genre portrayed in this piece of art is Anatomy, Composition, Figurative, Inspirational, Nudes, People. The artwork was created in Pastel. The size of the original art is 50 (cms) H x 69 (cms) W.
Words which artist Corne Akkers feels best describe this work of art are: abstract, akkers, artist, artista, artiste, arts, corne, cubism, corneakkers, cubisme, cubismo, cubist, cubistic, dessin, drawing, dutch, female, femme, finearts, frau, pastel, pasteles, pastell, buyart, thehague, kubistisch, model, nackt, nederland, netherlands, nude, nue, creative, pasteldrawing, tekening, vrouw, woman, seni, sanat, zeichnung, في, naakt, inspiration, kübizm, abstractie, kubisme, kubist, الرسم, кубизм, مذهب, art, roundism, rondisme, 立體主義, 立体主义, キュビズム, کوبیسم, တالتكعيبية.
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.