Life in the Arts - Pointilism - Laurie Myers

A lesson in Pointilism in the style of Georges Seurat with Laurie Myers.

Seurat was the master of dots. This technique is called pointillism. He studied color theory and used a prismatic palette of eleven colors arranged in order of the spectrum. Think of a rainbow. He used contrasting colors (colors opposite of each other on the color wheel). This enhanced the picture and made the colors even more vibrant. He was very scientific in his approach to art both as a draftsman and a colorist.

Instructions:

First pencil in a tree on the left hand side with the branch moving into the center. Next, create a horizon line about one third down the page. Show how the tree is floating unless you draw in a foreground line. This line should be diagonal. The diagonal line was often used by the Impressionists.They had been fascinated by Japanese wood block prints, where the artist leads you into the picture plane with diagonal lines. Now put a small sailboat in light pencil as your focal point in the middle ground. Have the sails go over the edge of the horizon. Now the trick is the dots. The tree gets filled in with brown.Have the students make the darker areas by using more dots closer together. On the light side of the tree the dots will be farther apart and less of them. The foreground can be in yellow and blue or in yellow or green. Notice how the eye mixes the colors. Then dot in the boat with red. The sky and sea must be two different shades of blue. For the sky, sea and sails you have to "reserve the white." Have the students go around the reserved areas without outlining them. Have them be careful not to fill in the sails. Just make dots.The sea will move if they make curves and waves with the dots. When they are completely finished, and this takes quite a bit of time, have them erase the pencil lines.Voila!

Pointillism!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• georges
• seurat
• pointalism
• art
• painting
• laurie
• myers

[613weed4free]

Lol this is dumb and takes too long stupid arts

[Maddaxe111]

@Kcullane I agree

[Kcullane]

Seurat in my opinion was not a Neo-Impressionist but rather a Post Impressionist. He did not revive or continue Impressionist interests, but rather continued to explore modern avant-garde concepts in the interest of modernity.

[meesterschilders]

well done