Corne Akkers

Golden Shine - 21-11-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper

2022

Unique hand-drawn work on paper depicting a watermelon slice. I used red and green hues for the watermelon light blue for the table cloth and hues of orange, yellow, and gold for the...

Under an Hour A quick model study, inspired by a photograph by Laure Albin Guillot. After my graphite pencil drawing ‘Art Deco Nude - 23-08-22’ I frantically worked on my curr...

Impressionist Approach This graphite pencil drawing ‘Sienna - 25-08-22’ follows up my previous one ‘Model Study, after Laure Albin Guillot - 25-08-22’. In my last art stat...

Sans titre - 30-03-18 Following my previous sans titre drawing this one shows more clairobscur (chiaroscuro), giving it a rather impressionistic look. I kept the cubistic forms th...

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...

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...

An early 20th Century drawing and watercolour view of the city and riverscape at Rouen by French artist Georges Planes. The work is signed and dated bottom right in red ink. There is...

Fairy tale. 1950. Paper, watercolor, 26,5x19,5 cm

Italy. Paper, mixed media, 33х24 сm

“Three Women” is an early work of Artist F. John Sierra whose career spans over four decades. He has produced images of the people, lifestyles and challeng...

Artist: Colt K Sdall Work: Original painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Graphic on Paper, Drawing, Year: 1900 ? Style: Surrealism Size: 29" x 23" x 0.5'' inch, (73.5x5...

Preliminary Study for the painting Rose and Gold, 1913 Graphite on paper, 1913 Signed in pencil lower left (see photo) Titlted "Lizzy Young" in pencil upper left (see photo) Lizzy was a modle that Paxton depicts numerous times. The painting that this drawing is related to, is illustrated in Lee & Krause, William McGregor Paxton, 1869-1941, Plate 32, text on page 132. The painting was formerly in the collection of Victor Spark and the Honorable Paul Buchanan. It is currently in a Texas Collection. Provenance: Private Collection, Florida William McGregor Paxton (June 22, 1869 – 1941) was an American painter and instructor who embraced the Boston School paradigm and was a co-founder of The Guild of Boston Artists. He taught briefly while a student at Cowles Art School, where he met his wife Elizabeth Okie Paxton, and at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston. Paxton is known for his portraits, including those of two presidents—Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge—and interior scenes with women, including his wife. His works are in many museums in the United States. Early life He was born on June 22, 1869, in Baltimore to James and Rose Doherty Paxton. William's father moved the Paxton family and established a catering business in Newton Corner, Massachusetts, in the mid-1870s. Education Paxton attended Cowles Art School on a scholarship he attained at the age of 18. He studied with Dennis Miller Bunker...