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Through the Pines-Treescape. Woodland Landscape from Loch Fleet Nature Reserve,Sutherland in Scotland.

Kethel – 13-07-19 When I returned to my car from my little trip to Kethel, Schiedam, Netherlands, I saw this beautiful tree in bloom. Sometimes you look for grand things and the little all of a sudden pop into your eyes when least expected. The actual tree was in no interesting area but the very shape struck me by lightning. I took a picture and decided to do it only now (in summer). I tried to capture the flow of the flowering tree and of course in my roundish style. Graphite pencil drawing (Pentel 0.5 mm, 3B) on Winsor & Newton paper (10.5 x 14.8 x 0.1 cm – A6 format) Artist: Corné Akkers

Photograph taken with a Holga toy lens of a backlit tree on the Ligurian hills.

Trees on land near Adaminaby near the Snowy Mountain highway and bushland in Australia

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The English county of Wiltshire has a long mysterious and ancient history and is home to Stonehenge and Avebury. These trees are believed to be just as ancient and may have witnesses some of the great historical events. Bent over the years by the wind of time!

Watercolour landscape with trees

Tis the season for trees aglow with gifts of joy. Celebrate the magic under the twinkling lights.

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Discover the stunning beauty of summer trees with this eye-catching print. Perfect for bringing a touch of nature to your space.

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Escape into the enchanted world of Japanese Cherry Blossoms where the sparkling crystal-clear waters flow to nourish the roots of these pink beauties as the mighty Mt. Fiji kisses the sky to create this beautiful scenery of Springtime and renewal for all life. Hand painted on a tile to capture the beauty of this landscape. Instagram@ Artbydebcamp Facebook@ Art by Deborah Camp

Tree Dance. Semi-Abstractual Tree/Landscape. Photography by Dave Harnetty

A photograph of frosty trees in the winter sunshine.

An original acrylic painting of a tree framing the moon surrounded by stars and the night sky. The yellow moon is surrounded by multicoloured moon rings.

Nature design with lake, forest and mountains

A watercolour and pencil painting of a snowy landscape with trees and fields.

Return to the Spot The second one of Estate ‘Oosterbeek’ this week. Yesterday’s was my graphite pencil drawing ‘Oosterbeek – 07-04-20’. I quite liked it and so I returned today, trying to shake off this corona blues. This time I chose a specific spot in the park where there is a bend in a brook running through it. I found the reflections of the tree just enough to give my drawing something extra. It gave me some rectangulars counterbalancing all things organic. They also avoid the scenery for becoming to clotted with medium toned subtle branches, leafs and grasses. This I always find very troublesome to deal with. In fact Spring can be a tedious season. Spring green can be charming because it scares away Winter. However, all these sub...

A photograph of trees on a sunny winter day.

A little off from the usual tourist hotspots, Shepherds gutter in the New Forest (Hampshire, UK) has a number of these glades that feel just a little enchanted. Running nearby is a stream in a winding channel that no doubt gives the place its name. You'll find all this on the road that passes through Bramshaw. I've painted this in oil on a 16x12 inch board.

Nature design. Front- and back design

A realistic / impressionistic pastel drawing of estate 'Oosterbeek', at The Hague, Netherlands. I love sunlight between trees and reflections in water. Pastel drawing on Canson Mi-Teintes Touch paper (50 x 65 x 0.1 cm) Artist: Corné Akkers

Trees in the low light glow of dusk in Bouddi Natural Park on the NSW Central Coast

Trees on an Island. Abstract Photography. From Near Loch Fleet Nature reserve,in the Highlands of Scotland.

Strip of light late in the day across a line of trees in the Blue Mountains in NSW near Sydney, Australia

A Beautiful Spot There is this specific spot in Voorburg at the beginning of the Herenstraat where it is particulary beautiful. There is a small ditch in front of an old mansion with a big tree in front of it, making it a rather English site than typical dutch. I loved doing the cast shadows in this one and they make me long for summer days during which I can depict them wherever I may be the next coming months. Drawing Outdoors In fact I started drawing outdoors last month at the Sluisjes at Leidschendam where I had dinner with my parents after we visited all the etching works of Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum. I had only a small A6-size sketchbook with me. I discovered I quite like the sketchy look of a 1 hour drawing. This one of V...

Last night of the day lighting up gum trees in bouddi national park in NSW

Beek-Ubbergen Just outside Nijmegen towards the German border there are two places of beauty called the Ooij Polder and the start of the ‘Nijmeegse Heuvelrug’, part of the Lower Rhine Heights. For people living outside The Netherlands it must be a sorry sight but at least there are hills and I know them very well for whole my life. My paintings The Ooij Polder (2013) and The Elysian Fields (2013) are situated in them. Exact spot The drawing was not made at the spot but today. I took the photo in Spring though but weather conditions last days were pretty bad. Perhaps this one expresses my longing for sketching outdoors. Hopefully we still will get some Indian Summer days this year. The spot by the way is in The Ooij Polder, along the...

A Welcome Change Today, the last day of August, I went to Clingendael with my dear friend Michelle. It’s a welcome change from drawing art deco models, such as the last one. We were out there to take some landscape pictures and to do some drawing. Quite nice weather I must say. It’s still summer, no wind and plenty of sun although not as hot as last week. Perfect for outdoor sketching. However, when I arrived at the estate I realized I forgot my camping chairs. Those are unconfortable to transport by bike anyway. The only option left was to find a suitable bench in the woods or tree trunk to sit on. Condition number two is to have an interesting motif in front of your eyes. Spotting artistic motifs outdoors is an art on itself. You’d ...

Through the Pines 26. A Forest/Woodland Abstract.

Park ’t Loo On my way to my students in Voorburg I come across Park ‘t Loo that had a reshape last year. Some natural river banks were created for birds to nest. The variety of vegetation also is extended. There is a herbal garden and some lovely flower beds. I once heared Princess Marianne van Oranje-Nassau used to walk this park from her home to Palace Huis Ten Bosch. Much has changed though ever since I guess. Sun Shimmers Through In this time of year I love to see the sun shimmer through leaves. It causes me to see a whole range of blue, yellow and ocre kind of greens. Besides these hues these settings show a maximal tonal bandwith sparkle in my eyes, almost like flikkering diamonds. I wanted to draw a rather abstract feel,...

An abstract rainbow watercolour landscape painting.

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 Esta...

More Light An impressionistic pastel of the sun setting through the trees at the Hatertse Vennen (Hatert Meres), Gelderland, Nederland. After the last one I wanted to show more sunlight because I felt that was missing. Landscapes can look very bland, almost greyish if there is a neutral lighting caused by a full or partial cloud cover. Monet’s Statement I fully concur with what Monet used to say: “I do not paint objects but the light on them”. Since then I prefer treescapes like these ‘contrejour’ (against daylight). The risk one faces is that the subject becomes blackened but in this particular case the sun already was setting so the landscape was not overlit. Colors For a brief moment I had the opportunity to study the color s...

Pittoresque A pastel drawing of Estate ‘Reigersbergen’ adjacent to the Haagse Bos in quite some impressionistic moves. You can see me walk there very often because I live close by. Because of my artistic activities and my need to keep up my condition I take 10.000 steps per day. Consequently this leads me to this area automatically because all other directions lead to concrete buildings and flats only. The estate forms a link between The Haagse Bos and Estate ‘Marlot’. It is an intimate and small area in spite of the arrival of the Louwman Museum. Somehow it has kept its variety of different landscapes: meadows, treelines, woods and narrow paths. Plenty of artistic motifs to spot everything I walk over there and I havent discovered all ...

Other than Cubism Another pastel drawing I made at Meyendel in the dunes just outside The Hague. Being the first drawing after my graphite pencil drawing ‘Meyendel 2 – 12-06-14’ I wanted something different. That drawing was made in my ‘The Birth of New Cubism’ search. Albeit such was a good start to fulfill my abstract ambition, somehow I wanted to go further. In my mind I had it to find a style of my own. Altogether cubism is a style that has been developed 100 years ago by Picasso and Braque. Surely I do not desire to become an epigone of some kind. This is one of the reasons my personal roundism style came into play. It combines my love for round and conic natural shapes to an atmospheric depth, full of tonality and perspectives. Th...