Tuesday, May 12, 2009

I Got the Point !!!

Late, but not forgotten, acrylic on canvas, 8X10 ".

I got started on this after breakfast and dropping off kids, etc. Took 2 hours of teeth grinding effort. There's a reason pointalism doesn't appeal to a lot of people. This isn't nearly as good as Ree's, but you never answered my requests girl, so here is my shot at it.

6 comments:

  1. Ah-ha :-))))))))

    You sure did get the point and how neat is this!!

    I am pretty sure the dots are meant to be closer together, but hey I like this, you did good Bruce.

    What was the request from Ree?

    I will try this again one day, and use white paint too, I didn't before, only the three primaries, and after studying some more works of the masters, it is obvious they used white as well as their three primaries.

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  2. Well done Bruce!
    What requests??? I didn't know you requested anything?!

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  3. Ree, you missed the post I gues. It was #18 on your pointilism Cahllenge submission, of the pears. Here it is:

    mackb said...
    Ree, I am tortured over this pic. I don't see the updateed pic or your palette. However, I would like to know how you painted this, what kind of paint and brush etc. I ask bec you have done such a convincing job on a difficult method. Please tell me.

    May 3, 2009 12:07 PM


    As I implied, you are the master of poinilism and I want your input.

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  4. I'm so sorry Bruce, I really didn't see this comment and believe me I'm no 'master' of anything!
    I only paint what I see, using the techniques that I have learnt over many year of struggling with watercolours!
    Having never tried Pointillism before, it was a big challenge for me and I did enjoy the process.

    You said that I used a lighter version of primaries, here is your comment in JJ's post of her Pointillism painting...

    mackb said...April 22...

    "Yeah, but I didn't think they had to full strenghth colours to do it. I'm probably wrong, but Ree's pic wasn't straight primariesa nd they were lighter versions. Now I gotta go look agian, just came back.

    her's is yellow, white and varing shades of ochre and I think raw umber. But like I say, of late I've been wrong lots".

    My reply was...April 22

    "Hi Bruce...my palette was all primaries...cad yellow...naphthol red...ultramarine blue. No ochre or raw umber and no white only white paper showing! ;)"

    That's the reason why I put up a higher res pic to show the actual colours that I used but I didn't name them!

    My method in Pointillism was to place the dots in a uniform manner within the shape of the pears but I should have used a smaller brush... starting with a # 4 round, was much too big, I changed to a # 2 which was OK.. A lot of colours mingled to make secondaries and tertiaries so that's where you see the browns, Bruce! ;)
    Hope this has helped you, sorry for the delay in replying. ;)

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  5. Well Bruce ....at least yours is a whole lot better than mine was......

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  6. Thanks Ree, that helps a lot actually. I saw the post but I didn't make the connection. You really nailed the poinilism challenge tho, well done.

    Thanks Anne, it's obvious, we all need to do the challenge agian and will in the puture, I promise.

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