This colored pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 01-04-26’ is my sixth cubist nude in a square-sized series. Executed on black paper for the second time. Last one I found so much fun to make that I wanted to do another one. This white colored pencil gives me new possibilities for subtle shading. Another reason is that an artist like me gets the opportunity to train his eye to think the other way round. Let me explain. On white paper it’s just a matter of darkening things up tonally. If you get those tonal values right you become a master of the tonal scale (from 1 to 10). Using black paper forces you to think the other way round. Same tones to achieve but how you get to them is through reverse looking and thinking. Fun to do and the effect is dramatic and beautiful nevertheless.
Beautiful Zig-Zag Patterns
The pose I had the model strike surpassed my expectations. Beautiful zig-zag patterns appeared. Sometimes you hear about photographers asking their models to show more triangles. Well, this is a clear example. Look at the slanted position of her right arm compared to her thigh. Secondly, that thy in a slanted position against a horizontal lower leg. That’s what I’m talking about. This is sheer beauty, defined by a minimalist approach.
The Meaning of It All
Perhaps people are only attracted by the meaning of it all: a beautiful woman with a meditative gaze. Maybe a bit fragile looking. In fact, Youtube marketeers often explain I should talk more about those aspects in order to take care of my SEO in a better way. However, my art is not about that. My quest is to seduce people to look beyond the meaning. That’s the top layer, an extra filter put over the actual thing that is appearing in their eyes. Nothing more than geometrics and abstract principles that rule our universe.
Colored pencil drawing on Clairfontaine Paint On Mix Media noir paper (21 x 21 x 0.1 cm)
Artist: Corné Akkers
