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Corne_Akkers
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ArtistCorné Akkers
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Typeimage
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Dimensions69.4 x 49.8 x 0.1 cm
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Price$1600
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...
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 o