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Pencil Portraits

You may have noticed at Akua Designs London, we have  a strong passion for pencil drawings. After all its where are foundations were laid. In recent times their has been an increase in artists having platforms such as Pintrest to share their work, and making it more accessible to the general public. 

Their something about the gritty rustic quality of a pencil portrait drawing that is incredibly enticing a skill that a small percentage of the world posses. 

So here we share with you some of our favourite findings and of course one from Akua Designs London.

Enjoy!

Morgan Freeman Design Bolts

House Deviant Art

Ray Charles DPI

Nelson Mandela Akua Designs London

 Eyes Shut Deviant Art

Gerhard Richter

Through our travels in seeking out the extraordinary Akua Designs ... came across Gerhard Richter in the Serpentine Gallery, and we were simply memorised. The use of colour to create linear landscapes, was simply breath taking.

 Richter studied in Dresden Art Academy mainly focussing on free painting and mural painting. Richter's graduation piece was a large scale mural piece, his main influences during that period was Jackson Pollock and Lucio Fontana.

Richter's growth through art later transformed into mixed media using photography, figurative art and influences from Pop Art & minimalism.

We selected a few from his retrospective of work, we hope you enjoy it as much as we do

Master at work

Stripes Collection

Jet Fighter Duserjager, 2007

Ella, 2007

Navin Rawanchaikul

When travelling through Shoreditch design district, I came across the artist Navin  Rawanchaikul, his work was being exhibited in Rivington place. There was this amazing painting which was at least a metre long, with what looked like an ancestral painting of various types of asians. There was also a short documentary to go with the painting. The exhibition was about Pakistanis, (which was then India), who had fled the country during the civil war, they went to seek asylum in Nepal. What really took me by surprise is that on the outside they were Indian but were speaking Nepalese I just couldn't get my head around it it was fascinating. These people fully recognised them self as Nepalese, and India of a foreign land to them. Truly amazing, the level of detail in each persons face tells a story.

Mahakad 2010