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The Court Pond (De Hofvijver) - 07-04-17

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Drawing on paper (21 x 29.7 cm)
Artist: Corné Akkers

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October 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Neo Deco - 19-08-25

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Drawing on Fabriano Ingres paper (21 x 28.2 x 0.1 cm)
Artist: Corné Akkers

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Something Special This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 19-08-25’ is something special. A cubist yet impressionist appearance that begun as an experiment indeed. My last drawing of Assia was inspired by a photo from the 1930s. However, this time I thought I’d run Assia through AI. Simply have her move near a wall casting shadows on it. The result was astonishing really! AI wasn’t that great a couple of years back, mistreating fingers and feet horribly. It gets better and better though. Lately I put it to work on my mockups of my artworks who on themselves are AI generated as well. The outcome is viewers and possible art collectors being able to interpret my works in a virtual room. Actual yet animated people present my drawings and paintings to the world in those short movies. AI as a Worktool Somehow I can’t help thinking of my former esteemed colleague Humphrey Brugman. He always told not to resist new developments. They come into our lifes, whether we like it or not. There was been a lot of discussion on AI lately. As always, also with the introduction of the internet or the mobile phone, people are sceptic and even scared by this new thing. Already two and a half years back I wrote in an art statement AI is a sort of Heineken Beer. Not a real great specific taste but an average tasting beer. In fact, it averages out basically everything that’s out there. As such, it is becoming just a daily tool like it is was intented to be in the first place. Something similar to the internet and soon to be followed up by quantum computing, I guess.
August 29, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Neo Deco - 21-07-25

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Drawing on Fabriano Ingres paper (21 x 28.2 x 0.1 cm)
Artist: Corné Akkers

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August 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Neo Deco - 17-07-25

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Drawing on Fabriano Ingres paper (21 x 28.2 x 0.1 cm)
Artist: Corné Akkers

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August 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Neo Deco - 28-07-25

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Drawing on Fabriano Ingres paper (21 x 28.2 x 0.1 cm)
Artist: Corné Akkers

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Light and Fluffier This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 28-07-25’ is lighter and fluffier than last one. Finally, I managed to keep forms open again! Something similar to Neo Deco – 13-07-25. That one I specifically like because it more or less came into existence effortlessly. Lately, I am starting to realize a trained artist has to do less effort. Instead, listen more to his or her inner urges. Last night was a great night because I felt relaxed. Perhaps that has something to do with the fact I already made a lot of drawings this month. So I felt no worries or pressure for that matter. However, there is this dogma that keeps on lingering in my mind: to produce at least one artwork per day. Both my legal disciplinary background as my commercial side are talking here. It can kill spontaneity and creative forces though. My strong side is my handicap. Some Minor Issues to Solve There you have it: my state of mind rules the quality of my artworks. This having said, there were some minor issues to solve in this artwork as well. The reference photo I was inspired by was Roger Schall’s. Quite alright and I like the boxy kind of pose of Assia Granatouroff. It lended itself perfectly for abstraction but I did not follow the entire tonal range he captured with his camera. Next to this, the hand resting on her knee wasn’t that pausibly visible. Therefor I drew a well defined pinky. Last but not least, the hair. Assia must have had a bad hair day because her hairdo looked like an exploded head of endive. Very amorphous looking and that’s why I deciced to style it up a bit, structuring more curly waves of hair.
July 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Neo Deco - 13-07-25

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Drawing on paper (21 x 28.2 x 0.1 cm)
Artist: Corné Akkers

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Buxom Qualities This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco - 13-07-35’ shows Ukrainian model ‘Assia Granatouroff’ once more. Still not finished with her. Truely, I discovered she has many more aspects to offer. Take the pose for this one for example. Simply irresistible! Surely, other models could strike the same pose but she bears all the right proportions. At least to me she does. I don’t like too slender or too corpulent models. A bit muscular yes but also a bit buxom yet extremely sensual. Somehow she reminds me of the features Anita Ekberg showed. Searching for Value to Add The reference picture was also made by Ergy Landau. A beautiful picture of the 1930s but a bit too perfect from a light and dark point of view. Simply copying those tones would leave me without any interpretation, let alone any value added. Instead, I was looking at my new screen saver on my iPhone. That’s the one I made of Veronica Lake in June 2023 which I found very successful. All the key elements I was searching for I managed to incorporate. Strangely, it weren’t that much nifty things but more a matter of omission. Whipped Cream Lately I came to realize something important. I want to create my nudes and also other themes as a kind of ‘whipped cream’. Fluffy, full of open pockets of air. As if the viewer can travel through the structures without visual boundaries. You can say a sort of ‘openness’ that I think the viewer can subconsciously appreciate highly. When I look at true great art from the past a key feature always catches my eye: fluffiness! Whether it’s a Vermeer, Rembrandt, Monet, Cézanne or many others, they created open structures. Contour delineations hardly are strickt so they let their artworks breathe. They can be enjoyed like whipped cream on strawberries. Such were my intentions as to this one.
July 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Neo Deco - 07-07-25 (Assia)

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Drawing on Fabriano Ingres paper (21 x 28.2 x 0.1 cm)

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Portraiture This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 07-07-25’ shows Ms Granatouroff’s portrait only. Well, a bit of her arm but I this time I wanted something different than a nude. Last drawing was fine and proved to be succesful though. However, when I am attracted to a model I want to show more aspects of her. Through this portrait I want to demonstrate how a portrait can be sensual too. The image was captured by photographer Ergy Landau by whom I was also inspired two drawings back. Obviously Assia’s hair claimed a prominent role this time as well and I felt I truely could add some value. It was only at the beginning of this drawing I saw I already drew her hair last year. Dora Maar’s interpretation converged into one of my own, becoming ‘Neo Deco – 08-10-14’. So now I finally know who this beautiful actually woman is. Effortlessly I was quite satisfied with last drawing, you know. Fabriano Ingres paper proved to be a true asset in my attempts to create ‘open forms’. Through the grainy structure of the paper I found the essentials of a good portrait. In my opinion it lies in spontaneity. Not taken up as a tool but as a result of great motivation. Becoming in love with a model does that. Hence, capturing her features became very easy, almost effortlessly. Almost as if I knew I didn’t have to elaborate her facial expression with many nifty graphite pencil tricks. Such times are the best. For this drawing I had this funny and most pleasing hunch too. Somehow I had a rudimentary feeling of a softly rendered face induced by aforementioned graininess. In contrast thereof the hair would be immensely styled with harsh lines. And so it happened! Graphite pencil (Faber Castell, Pitt Graphite Matt, 14B) drawing on Fabriano Ingres paper (21 x 28.2 x 0.1 cm) Artist: Corné Akkers
July 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Neo Deco - 05-07-25
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Drawing on Fabriano Ingres paper (21 x 28.2 x 0.1 cm)

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Inspirational This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 05-07-25’ shows Ukrainian model Assia Granatouroff once more. After my last drawing of her I felt inspired to do another one. You know, there are a couple of relationships a person can have. There are romantic, family, friendly and business relations. Model relations are sui generis. You have to fall in love a bit with your model. Otherwise an artist won’t be able to mould her into perfect depiction on canvas or paper. Nevertheless, also stay atistic and be businesslike because the work needs to be done. So, no hanky-panky. I had that for 10 consecutive years with my regular model. She knew what she had to give and I knew what I wanted from her. Such a pity I now fall in love with a model that could have been my grandmother. She Is Not of My Time However, Assia died in 1982 and I wished I’d have lived in Paris during the 1930s. Alas! Luckily she has been captured by so many photographers. Dora Maar, Emmanuel Sougez, Roger Schall and Ergy Landau are only a few of them. Artist André Derain eternalized her as well. There’s one that inspired be to create this one and that is Nora Dumas’ interpretation of her. She sat upright in the picture. I quite liked the angular horizontally placed right thigh in comparison to the verticatity of her upper body. Two big blocks of darkness: arm and leg contrasting the beautiful the refined facial features. Not to forget her amazing hair. It’s lush, thick like copper wire and those bouncy hair curls remains a source of endless inspiration.
July 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Lambency In Grey

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July 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Neon Omorfia

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July 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Neo Deco - 03-07-25

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Drawing on paper (21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm)

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July 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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June 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Adelaide I, Panel 3

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June 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Work in progress, 60”x84”✨

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60”x84” work in progress in the art studio of Los Angeles based artist / contemporary abstract painter Laura Letchinger
May 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Sans Titre - 07–04-25 (Greta Garbo)

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Colored pencil drawing on paper (21 x 29.7 cm)
Artist: Corné Akkers

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Enigmatic Star This colored pencil drawing ‘Sans Titre – 07-04-25’ depicts Swedish celebrity moviestar Greta Garbo. Enigmatic, illusive, lonesome yet strong, intriguing and even bestowed with comic talent in Ninotchka. She halted her movie carreer in 1941 only to live her life in obscurity until her death in 1990. Most fascinating! Consequently her name carries many mysteries. Then again, a great mystery why I didn’t came to draw her before. I don’t know really. Always on my bucket list for sure. Postponing yes until I came acrosss this very iconic photograph taken in the 1930s I think. That was the one I was looking for. Full of chiaroscuro and heavily art deco style driven one could say. Unfortunately these kind of photography doesn’t exist anymore today and I don’t now superstars personally. Time to dare taking on Greta’s Portrait. Color Combinations Last of Jean Muir was in yellow. This time I picked pink. You know, I had it in me to do this one in straight cubist planes right from the start. Dire green or freezing blue only would make her portrait more stern than it had to be. Pink would soothe her elegant yet strict appearance a bit. Next to this, I also knew I had to do this one in green, black and white colored pencil right away. Green would gray against the pink in a suiting manner. The idea was to search for a right combination of pink and green mostly whereas black would block them both in. Pigment Troubles As in Ms Muir’s case I didn’t want to hatch down these regions to a complete darkness. This would mean to the end of the paper. Certainly this would lead to a rather anecdotal appearance of the pink. Somehow the pink should keep on shimmering through, searching for connection to facial features. A bit of a trouble there really. Soon I found out the paper didn’t reacted to my Faber-Castell Polychromos pencil too well. The Pitt Matt graphite can be rubbed out just fine but true color pencils react differently.
April 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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March 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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MOONWALKING | 24”x24” | oil and wax on cradled wood panel ✨

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MOONWALKING | 24”x24” | oil and wax on cradled wood panel, a contemporary abstract color field painting by Los Angeles based artist/painter, Laura Letchinger.
March 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Neo Deco – 12-02-25

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drawing on paper (21 x 29.7 cm)
Artist: Corné Akkers

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A Sort of a Cross-over This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 12-02-25’ makes a sort of a cross-over. My older ‘Roundism’ style meeting my new ‘Neo Deco’ one. Demarcation lines are blurry. Sometimes I don’t think there’s even a clear difference, only a progression over time. What I can see is my drawings tend to become a bit more realistic again. Strange how I started off doing impressionism, realism and surrealism, sliding towards an abstracter sort of cubism. Only to find myself getting back to realism. In fact, writing this art statement and looking at the drawing I just made thumbnail-sized I see a realistic nude. When I zoom in I see abstracted linear structures and cubist styling appear. That was my very aim and in that respect I think I have succeeded. On a Stool Again Some time ago I came across a beautiful reference photo of a female nude on a stool. Not sure though who made it so I can’t give someone credit. It’s ancient anyway. Allegedly the model photographed would be Anita Ekberg, so the internet stated. Well, I don’t buy it. Her appearance looks different. However, that’s not every exciting to know. The posture is interesting enough, no matter who she is. Not the first time though I drew a female form on a stool, such as my latest pastel. I also could mention Roundism – 22-12-22. There are intriguing aspects of doing nudes on a stool. That is the potential of a model showing triangularly positioned limbs. So much better dan having a model stand straight up. Then he or she becomes to static-looking. Both Abstraction and Meaning The stool itself initially bothered me a bit. Balusters looked too heavily profiled to my taste, so I styled them a bit. On the other side they enforce the feel of the intended realism too. The cubist styling employed wasn’t to much of a challenge I must say. That’s a walk in the park. The real challenge was to have the viewer believe the scenery to be realistic whereas in fact it’s not.
February 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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January 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Back in my old studio a number of years ago ✨

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Los Angeles based painter Laura Letchinger working in her studio a number of years ago.
January 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Yeast – 18-09-19

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Drawing on paper (21 x 29.7 cm)
Artist: Corné Akkers

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Madonna This is the story behind one of my strangests of titles ‘Yeast’. My model came with this pose Madonna used for one of her albums. Originally it was intented to do square sized pastels because I happen to have 4 spare square frames but today I saw a greater scheme I had to work out first. Still like the square though but the theme was better served with a (sur)realistic bodily outlook. I also wanted to return to surrealism. My graphite pencil drawing ‘Gouda – 07-07-19’ was the last one. Burning down the House Sadly these days are filled with sorrow and grief over burning down rainforests in Brazil, Indonesia, the list goes on. That only to satisfy our ever growing need to exploit the world. Cheap palm oil and soy products are returned in stead and return on investment. Can it be that eventually we burn down our own house we live in? That is why I think living your life ecologically entails more than meets the eye. Who can say drinking soy milk and abstain from meat is better than flying a plane for holidays? Can anyone suggest something useful to save the world without stepping on somebody else’s toes. Maya’s My regular model posed for this one and of indian descendance. She is all that Columbus once sought for. He made the discovery of The New World (the Americas) in stead of India though. That fact inspired me to position her on a Maya altar amidst burning rainforest trees. Legend has it Maya’s also distroyed their own society by exhausting their natural habitat. So what do you think? Shouldn’t we have learned from their demise? Yeast is an organism that cannot stop eating until it chokes in its own poo.
December 5, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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Delft - 19-08-17

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Drawing on paper
Artist: Corné Akkers

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Second Saturn Rocket This graphite pencil drawing ‘Delft - 19-08-17 (Sold)’ is a surrealist one. One time I was finding myself steering my bike to Delft. I drove along the river Vliet where I saw the Tour de Rijswijk passing by. Such resulted in a first drawing ‘Tour de Rijswijk - 20-07-17’ inspired by this trip. That’s how it goes: answering to an inner urge you often come across sceneries that all make sense eventually. Not aware which drawings I would make at that time. However, once I was walking towards the market something struck me. It was the ‘Nieuwe Kerk’ (New Church) towering over Delft. Somehow it reminded me of the Dom in Utrecht. A couple of months before I drew ‘Ascension - 24-05-17’. In that one I made the Dom take off like a Saturn rocket. Why not doing that the second time around? Knights Templar Unlike the first time I decided to not create a gigantic blast-off into the sky. Instead, depicting a launching tower was enough. As a testament to my imagination gone wild I included myself whilst drawing the actual scenery. Of course I also let some knights templar wander trough the drawing. Since Loving the Alien (2011) (Sold) they represent all religious yet futile. Just as futile as sitting in a cold church on a Sunday morning listening to a needless speech. The church is the same one as caught in the light on Vermeer’s View of Delft by the way. A mattter of how you see things. He saw it as glorious symbol of the House of Oranje-Nassau. 350 years later I don’t feel for that glam anymore.
November 28, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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Creating Puiflijk - 27-11-20

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Drawing on aper
Artist: Corné Akkers

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My Niece And it so happens my niece Lilian turned out to be a great photographer. Lo and behold, artistry runs deep in the veins of our family and I asked her to use a beautiful photo she took of a treeline in Puiflijk, near to where she lives. Direct Cause Direct cause to draw this one, next to the photo, is a discussion I had with a friend of mine (Piet-Jan) about the meaning of ‘The Star and Crescent’, being a symbol in islamic traditions, only for us to find out the invention of the very symbol stretches back another 1000 years prior to islam. Something powerful is happening here for sure. Anyway, boom! There it was, Lilian’s photo arrived in the mid of our discussion and there you have it: the Universe intervened. Royal Estate ‘De Horsten’ When I looked at the picture a previous graphite pencil drawing Royal Estate ‘De Horsten’ – 23-10-15 came to mind instantly and that is a blessing and a curse at the same time. The rendering of such a piece also can get in the way and I wanted to convey some other feeling in a different style. So I tried to dissociate myself from it and feel what I wanted to say 5 years later, on treelines but also the crescent of the moon. Flow and Checkered Patterns Albeit the picture capturing a great moment it was a bit blurry. From my own experience I know tree branches and trunks easily can be rendered too sharp and thus do not correspond with the way the human view works. When you for example look at a tree, you do not see the individual brances clearly and vice versa. The solution was to make circular patterns and a trick I learned when I was young: checkered patterns to get some subtle contrasts. Hence, the flow that swirls through the sky and clearly demonstrates the feel we all can have looking at the crescent.
November 28, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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Neo Deco - 02-08-24

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Oil on linen (60 x 80 x 2 cm)

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cubist art deco nude oil painting
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