Creating Neo Deco – 02-09-24

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A Lovely Model

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 02-09-24’ shows a lovely model called honey_kiss_rus again. Obviously that’s her online name. You can check her out on Instagram for example, adding a @ in front of her username. It’s not the first time I drew her though. Last time was a year ago and soon I turned it into an oil. After that I turned to other themes and models but we stayed in touch. Recently she sent me some new pictures and there was one I simply couln’t resist using for another drawing. The pose is quite similar to last year’s actually. Frontally but she bends her hips more. Frankly, I was curious if I could get the same quality in abstracted forms I found then once again.

To Copy Success

From my own experience I know how difficult it is to copy a success from the past. Especially if it concerns a similar pose. It’s like trying to experience the same lovely holiday on the same spot twice. Somehow a unique experience consists of skills, vision and all other components conducive to success at a certain moment. Nevertheless the urge remains and there is a lot I can learn from copying. Take the abstracted forms in her body for example. Maybe I was worried about the ability of finding new abstractions for my ever expanding Neo Deco series. After all, I made a lot of more realistic looking stuff this year. Now I feel I have to return to abstracting the female body. Inspired also by the positive feedback by others in the recent past I feel confident to pick up the trail.

A Stain, a Problem?

Actually finding cubist forms wasn’t that difficult. The model’s slender body showed a lot of shapes caused by the razor light coming from the right. These induced my capability to see all kinds of pareidolia effects. So I was right on track in Studio Brugman where I teach. Between lessons I had some time left and then it happened. A student didn’t clean the table properly. Therefore my fingertip was covered with a small amount of viridian green. Not much but it caused a stain on the lower left side. Of course I tried to erase it but these will never be removed completely. Then again, I wouldn’t be a proper artist if I didn’t improvise. So now you know I rendered the column on the left totally black. It enforced the composition. However, the initial plan was to keep it all rather light but the universe spoke!

Graphite pencil (Faber Castell Pitt Graphite Matt pencil 14B) drawing on Strathmore Bristol paper (21 x 29,7 x 0.1 cm)
Artist: Corné Akkers