1. An Introduction to Pointillism
Drawing and Painting

2. What is Pointillism? Creating a picture using only dots, no lines
Often used in painting
Also used in drawing

3. Pointillism
Its practitioners believed that separate, distinct application of pigment would produce better color vibrancy than simply blending it in together
AKA: if you don’t blend colors, they are brighter as individual dots

4. How did pointillism evolve?
First used in the 1880s by neo-impressionist painters
It was not taken seriously
by the art community until
much later

5. Pointillism
The idea behind the modern art/ contemporary art movement of pointillism was to paint in minuscule dots. The effect was a painting that looked dream like and fairytale like.
In the 19th century we see artists begin to use pointillism with other art mediums such as pencil and ink

9. When you do this with color, you begin to see how each individual color works together to make an image

10. What you will be doing
You are going to do a little bit of research on pointillism and neo-impressionism
You will create 3 small pointillism pieces, each using a different medium (pencil, ink, paint)
You will start with pencil!
You will do the ink with a fine point black sharpie
Before you use the paint, we (the class) will do some work with using the color spectrum