So What’s the Point?
• Pointillism (pron.: /ˈpwɛntɨlɪzəm/) is a
technique of painting in which small, distinct
dots of pure color are applied in patterns to
form an image
• Pointillism is in sharp contrast to the traditional methods of
blending pigments on a palette. Pointillism is analogous to
the four-color CMYK printing process used by some color
printers and large presses that place dots of Cyan (blue),
Magenta (red), Yellow, and Key (black). Televisions and
computer monitors use a similar technique to represent
image colors using Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) colors.
• The painting technique used for pointillist color mixing is at
the expense of the traditional brushwork used to delineate
texture.
• The majority of pointillism is done in oil paints. Anything
may be used in its place, but oils are preferred for their
thickness and tendency not to run or bleed
Georges Seurat 1859-1891
• One of the first artists to
use this style. Post
impressionism George
Seurat used a series of dots
to create his works of art.
He lived a short life of
32years forever changing
the face of artistic works to
come. The cause of his
death is uncertain, and has
been variously attributed to
a form of meningitis,
pneumonia, infectious
angina, and diphtheria
• Next time we can visit Ben Day dots and Rob
Lichtenstein
http://www.creativebloq.com/graphicdesign/pointillism-examples-dot-art-11121135
• The Ben-Day Dots printing process, named after
illustrator and printer Benjamin Day, is similar to
Pointillism. Depending on the effect, color and
optical illusion needed, small colored dots are
closely-spaced, widely-spaced or overlapping.
Magenta dots, for example, are widely-spaced to
create pink. 1950s and 1960s pulp comic books
used Ben-Day dots in the four process colors
(cyan, magenta, yellow and black) to
inexpensively create shading and secondary
colors such as green, purple, orange and flesh
tones.
• Ben-Day dots differ from halftone dots in that
the Ben-Day dots are always of equal size and
distribution in a specific area.
• Ben-Day dots were considered the hallmark of
American artist Roy Lichtenstein, who
enlarged and exaggerated them in many of his
paintings and sculptures, especially his
interpretations of contemporary comicbook
and magazine images. Other illustrators and
graphic designers have used enlarged Ben-Day
dots in print media for a similar effect.
Roy Lichtenstein 1923-1997
One of Roy’s famous works on display
in Europe, “WHAM”
Onomonopia
• Defined as:
• The formation or use of words such as buzz or
murmur that imitate the sounds associated
with the objects or actions they refer to.
A link to an interview with Roy
• http://youtu.be/nPRmSAsq
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Mabey next time we can
explore…
• Around the same period of
time Andy Warhol was
becoming more popular and
took commercial artistry to
new heights
Andy Warhol
"I'd prefer to remain a mystery. I never give my background,
and, anyway, I make it all up different every time I'm asked.“
– Andy Warhol
• Born on August 6, 1928, in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Andy Warhol was a
successful magazine and ad
illustrator who became a
leading artist of the 1960s
Pop art movements..
Warhol died on February
22, 1987, in New York City.
It Began with, “Blotted Line”
He entered the world of design
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Andy Warhol’s drawing The French Look is one of many shoe
illustrations he created using a special type of line drawing
known as the blotted line technique. Warhol first
experimented with blotted line while still a college student at
Carnegie Institute of Technology. He continued to craft this
technique in his commercial work in New York City
throughout the 1950s. Blotted line enabled Warhol to create
a variety of illustrations along a similar theme. This type of
production allowed him to bring multiple ideas to clients and
increase the odds one of his drawings would be chosen for
the final advertisement.
Blotted line combines drawing with very basic printmaking.
Warhol began by copying a line drawing on a piece of nonabsorbent paper, such as tracing paper. Next he hinged this
piece of paper to a second sheet of more absorbent paper by
taping their edges together on one side. With an old fountain
pen, Warhol inked over a small section of the drawn lines
then transferred the ink onto the second sheet by folding
along the hinge and lightly pressing or “blotting” the two
papers together. Larger drawings were made in sections.
Completing a large blotted line drawing could take quite a bit
of time and multiple pressings. The process resulted in the
dotted, broken, and delicate lines that are characteristic of
Warhol’s illustrations. Warhol often colored his blotted line
drawings with watercolor dyes or applied gold leaf.
• Warhol was famous for his
blending of advertising with
art. He walked day to day
culture into the artistic
world.
He also pushed “art” without the artist
Picture $100 million Dollars (2008)
• " Eight Elvises”
Now it is your turn
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print four copies of an image onto watercolor paper. If you don’t have watercolor paper, you can
print onto plain copy paper but use colored pencils instead of watercolors.
Supplies Needed:
Watercolor paper/cardstock/white paper
Sheet of white paper
Watercolor paints/colored pencils
Paintbrush
Water
Scissors
Glue Stick
Cover your work space. This is very important because you will be painting all the way to the edge
of your pictures.
Cut out all four pictures so there is no border around them. Choose about 6 bright colors. The more
water you use the more the lines will show through, but if your paint is too watery it will run.
Fill in your pictures with bright colors. Color the face one color, the body and hair another color, the
background a third color, the eyes a fourth color, and the mouth and fifth color. Try not to use the
same color twice for any section. Don’t pay too much attention to details.
Mount all of your pictures on a final piece of paper.
It goes from this to this
To this…
Sources
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• http://artsmarts4kids.blogspot.com/2008/10/
create-your-own-andy-warhol-portrait.html