Marlot - 11-04-20
Last year this time around Spring I started a series of small graphite pencil landscapes, one per day. I finished my last Bettie Page painting some time ago, started a new project (Frida Kahlo), the Corona crises came apparent and my art teachings came to a sudden end. Crash-bang-wallop! Tine for a break because hitherto every day seems like the other. Now I feel what the retired must feel like. To give me an excuse to break out of my apartment (we are in an intelligent lock-down situation in The Netherlands), I set off on a daily bicycle tour to various parks and sceneries here in The Hague. One of them is an intimate little park called ‘Marlot’ where I drew a couple of years back. There are lots of rhododendrons lingering about, just as the brooks do throughout the whole park. The recipe for a successful drawing was eminent: trees unfolding their leafs, water reflections and what have you not. Tomorrow I will return to two urgent matters: my quarterly vat return (bleh! ) And return to Frida again because she is looking blike eaten with an ugly stick. Better improve her ressemblance. Graphite pencil drawing (Pentel 0.5 mm, 3b) on Winsor & Newton paper (14.8 X 10.5 X 0.1 cm – a6 format) Artist: Corné Akkers
Marlot - 11-04-20
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