Project #3 (Day 54) was to make something only using dots. Ideas included stippling from a pen, the circles cut from paper using a hole punch or even small round price stickers.After some time I decided to use paint pens/markers and 12"x12" acrylic canvas paper for this project. I started by creating my squiggle line design using black dots. Once the line of the dots was complete - I then went back and filled in around the "line" with multi-colored dots - filling in the page.
The final piece is pretty cool but this was a very tedious process. When I started I did not draw out the initial line first - I only used the dots as I went. If I try this again - I would change that step and draw out the line in pencil first in order to have a clear idea of where to fill in the background color(s) or at make the line dots a different size from those in the background.
This project brought back memories of doing pointillism & stippling projects in Jr. High/High School. Pointillism is a painting technique where small dots of color are applied to create an image/design. Two well known artists who used this technique were Georges Seurat - most well known for Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jette found at the Art Institute of Chicago and Paul Signac, who was influenced by Seurat, painted the Grand Canal which can be found at the Toledo Museum of Art. Stippling is the process of shading using small dots of the same color to create images... the projects I created were primarily black & white designs... black dots on white paper but they were pretty great when they were done.
My eyes were a bit glazed over by the time I was finished, to say the least.
