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Question: Is THIS pointilisim!?
And what do you think!? It was all done in sharpie markers!.!.!. no computer tampering!

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The projected image was interesting!. At first - it looked like a personification of a melting rainbow!. Then it took a humanoid shape - legs spread - a liquid dripping down - forming a puddle!. I hesitate to name the draining liquid's source!. Very interesting in an impressionistic sort of way!. ?Www@QuestionHome@Com

It's me again !. !.!. and no, I would again call this stippling, as pointillism is a term applied to a particular technique used by impressionistic painters to break up light and create "visual color mixing" -- meaning colors that your eye blends when you look at them!. It is usually done with primary colors, and the eye creates the secondary colors through the effect of visual blending!.

Here is an article on pointillism: http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Pointillism

Try doing the same thing with magenta, cyan and yellow and see if you can get the effects of orange, green and violet, as seen from a distance from your work!. I am a colored pencil artist, and I know of an award winning c/p artist who does all his work in those three pigments!. I have also used just three pigments in watercolor, blending all the colors I need from them with good results!. I am just now trying my hand at impressionism!.!. !. !.


I like the piece you have linked, however!. Did you do that!? Are you experimenting with pointillism and stippling!? both are great techniques!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No!. It's stippling!. I was taught pointillism breaks the whole surface into colored dots -- even the whites!. That is a mass constructed out of stippled colors on a white background!. The white background is never taken apart and remade the way Seurat would!. Thus one can discuss the technique, which is stippling, but not overall philosophy -- there is none!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

yeah, anything with just dots and no brush strokes is considered pointilism, i like it, just dots is hard i had to do a halloween scene in it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com