Pick one or more objects to use for a still life. I used pomegranates. Set up your still life the way you want to paint it and can leave it until you’re done painting.
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Pointillism artwork is hand embellished with a brush gel finish, bringing a realistic painted look to giclees. Giclees are high quality images printed directly onto the canvas from a digital plotter then stretched over frames then coated with a brush gel finish.
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Introduction: Pointillism 101 – Impressionistic Painting
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Pointillism is an iconic form of impressionism that gives beautiful, characteristic results. While it requires patience, it is also very forgiving. Even beginning painters can create wonderful pieces of art.
In this tutorial I’ll first give you a bit of art history on impressionism and pointillism. Then I’ll teach you how to create your own pointillistic paintings. This project is appropriate for classrooms and individuals, from middle school to adult.
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Step 1: What You Need
Acrylic paints or Oil paints – I used acrylics in this project, but impressionists originally used oils. At a minimum you’ll need red, blue, yellow, and white (Pointillists traditionally don’t use black). But you can can buy more colors if you want, it just depends on how much you want to spend, and how much you want to mix your own colors. I bought my class individual student grade paint sets of 12 tubes. (Class was online, so everyone needed their own supplies.)
Brushes – You may end up only using one brush for your painting, but get a few small brushes. At least one round and one flat, so you can try them and see which you like best.
Canvas – Get a primed prestretched canvas in a small size – 8×10 is perfect.
Paper and pencil to sketch
Cup or other container of water
Paper plate (or similar) or palette
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Step 2: A Brief Art History Lesson
Impressionistic painting began in the early 1800’s and became prominent around the 1870s – 80s. Impressionist painters moved away from photorealistic paintings and ethereal subjects, and instead focused on everyday life and objects. The impressionist painter also focused more on light, color, and shadow, even if the result was unrealistic.
Another new technique in impressionism was that paint colors were not blended together on the canvas as they were previously. Instead, colors were mixed on a palette and then used on the canvas in bold strokes with no blending, giving impressionistic paintings their characteristic look.
Pointillism is a style of impressionistic painting developed by George Seurat and Paul Signac in the 1880’s. As with impressionism, colors are not blended together on the canvas. But instead of the broad strokes of the impressionist, the pointillist paints using dots, or tiny strokes. The dots of vivid color are intended to be blended by the eye of the viewer. The proportions of the colors of the dots and the density of dots change the color the eye sees. Impressionism and pointillism are still popular painting styles to work in and to collect.
Georges Seurat and Paul Signac
Paul Signac was a mostly self-taught, Jewish artist born in Paris in 1863. Signac’s early works followed the tradition of impressionism, but evolved after meeting Georges Seurat in 1884. Georges Seurat was also born in Paris, in 1859. He is most famous for his iconic, enormous painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte created from 1884–1886 (shown above). In the mid 1880s Signac and Seurat became close friends and the two collaborated on studying theories of painting and color, in particular how light breaks down into its prismatic elements. They had a scientific approach to painting in which the analytical study of color theory and light were extremely important.
George Seurat: 1859-1891, French A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte – 1884-1886, oil on canvas Over 6’x10’
Paul Signac: 1863-1935, French Place Des Lices -1893, oil
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Larynx -Pointillism Study
Larynx -Pointillism Study
$500.00
This is an original Pointilism drawing on black paper. This was a concept study I drew before creating the numbersim scratchboard engraving of “Larynx”
Model: Jessye Norman
Photo Reference by Noam Galai
