Therion
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Re: Topps Contracted ARTIST HOBRECHT - 3rd Post on Page 2
Pointillism is not Mixed Media. My grandmother is an artist, so I've had a lot of exposure to the different artistic styles.
Pointillism is literally painting with dots. Instead of using lines to create edges, they just use the tip of the paintbrush (or whatever utensil they use with a point that leaves just a dot). To understand the advantage of this, you need to think about how colors interact. If you take two pieces of fairly translucent paper of differing colors and put one behind the other you will see that the paper seems to change colors where they cross. Basically think of elementary school when they taught you what happens when you mix blue and red. By pointing with dots, you force the eye to mix the colors without them actually mixing. By using such small dots, the eye can't capture the detail. So it fills in the gaps. Because the colors interact, you eye will perceive the mixed color instead of the colors actually presented.
A more familiar example would be collages. One of the members here has several images in his signature that makes one large picture out of hundreds of other pictures. It's a similar concept. Up close you can see the detailed pictures but as you move further away, you see less of the details and it makes a larger picture.
I hope this helped.
If at all interested in my grandmother's work, she is completely non-famous but she drew Captain Marvel in Canada during WWII because the US stopped exporting paper. So they'd get the story for the US and have to recreate it in Canada. She gifted this painting to me for Christmas in 2003. It is not malproportioned, I took the picture at an angle so it makes it look a little wonky.
I just wish I had half her talent LOL
And finally a short defense of Mixed Media. It's not as easy as one might think. The projection system is mostly used by beginners to learn lines. Having base lines isn't really all that helpful because there is still plenty of room to eff up. I used this system when I was starting to get the basic lines for a Magritte copy. The top is the original, the bottom is my attempted recreation.
As you can see, having the basic lines really isn't the key factor in that painting. But I will acknowledge that it is a tool used by those learning and I can't imagine a legitimate artist using a projection system unless they are just absolutely stumped by a specific line.
hofautos said:grahamart said:Pointillism is basically drawing in 100's to 1000's of little dots. I rather not comment on those who just print out photos and color them, to each is own. I just enjoy doing realistic drawings all freehand and in the Pointillism style. I also do drawings that are more basic and just outline, somewhat comic like. It really depends on how much time I have to work on a project. Heres a close up of some of my Pointillism artwork, sorry not baseball. Actually I have been so busy I still have blank cards we get as returns from the second series
So how do you paint dots?
Can you tell by a closeup of this how it was created, if it is "mixed media" or transfer, or ??
The artist assure me it is not transfer, but hasn't expanded beyond that. In hand, it is clear to me it isn't water colored with a brush, so I really have no clue?
He also said he would join us by week's end, but hasn't yet...still hoping.
Pointillism is not Mixed Media. My grandmother is an artist, so I've had a lot of exposure to the different artistic styles.
Pointillism is literally painting with dots. Instead of using lines to create edges, they just use the tip of the paintbrush (or whatever utensil they use with a point that leaves just a dot). To understand the advantage of this, you need to think about how colors interact. If you take two pieces of fairly translucent paper of differing colors and put one behind the other you will see that the paper seems to change colors where they cross. Basically think of elementary school when they taught you what happens when you mix blue and red. By pointing with dots, you force the eye to mix the colors without them actually mixing. By using such small dots, the eye can't capture the detail. So it fills in the gaps. Because the colors interact, you eye will perceive the mixed color instead of the colors actually presented.
A more familiar example would be collages. One of the members here has several images in his signature that makes one large picture out of hundreds of other pictures. It's a similar concept. Up close you can see the detailed pictures but as you move further away, you see less of the details and it makes a larger picture.
I hope this helped.
If at all interested in my grandmother's work, she is completely non-famous but she drew Captain Marvel in Canada during WWII because the US stopped exporting paper. So they'd get the story for the US and have to recreate it in Canada. She gifted this painting to me for Christmas in 2003. It is not malproportioned, I took the picture at an angle so it makes it look a little wonky.
I just wish I had half her talent LOL
And finally a short defense of Mixed Media. It's not as easy as one might think. The projection system is mostly used by beginners to learn lines. Having base lines isn't really all that helpful because there is still plenty of room to eff up. I used this system when I was starting to get the basic lines for a Magritte copy. The top is the original, the bottom is my attempted recreation.
As you can see, having the basic lines really isn't the key factor in that painting. But I will acknowledge that it is a tool used by those learning and I can't imagine a legitimate artist using a projection system unless they are just absolutely stumped by a specific line.
It is very time consuming but IMO leaves the artist VERY satisfied with the final product (it is really something else once completed). I used colored pen's & marker's (though the marker's ruin somewhat quickly as thier tip's are not made for the constant pressure/mashing movement). 
