Yesterday evening my daughter and I played with markers. I bought her a small box of Crayola with watersoluble non toxic flat pointed markers. I placed a dark blue bed sheet on the carpet (she loved the waves we made while arranging it on the floor, BTW), we sat with our papers, and we started scribbling and making dots. I am not sure she liked to draw with these markers too much: they are made so that the tip cannot be squashed by too much pressure, but the way Bella holds them in her hands (like hammers but not really perpendicular to the paper, that it) makes it difficult for her to actually get a sign out of them. I'll buy her some with regular pointed tips, next.
Anyways..., while she was having great fun uncapping all of the markers and wearing the caps on her fingers, I started dotting a piece of paper and soon I had this new face popping out of it. I haven't be coloring in pointillism for ages (possibly the late 80's), so that felt like taking a time machine and revisiting my middle school years...also no real outline, pencil or ink made, was required, so that took care of my ongoing dilemma for the night. :)
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| # 25 Spirit of the forest |
this is quite fun
ReplyDeleteamazing how you brought this to life with dots
i use to love creating with dots....
so fun to picture your daughter playing with the markers as you drew... a sweet memory in the making (your comment on my blog inspired my smile, thank you)
Yes, it felt very moving sharing that moment with her...:)
Delete...and of course you are welcome: it's always a pleasure! ;)
love all your faces !! great and thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteThank you a million! It has been a lot of fun! :)
DeletePointillism. I have never tried it in any medium. I commend you for giving it a try again. The face is really beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThank you, dear. I remember I probably did it twice, once, in elementary school with pencils (that was completely crazy and I ended up crying: it was a project for school and my teacher had forgot to warn me about how hard it would be to fill an A4 paper with pencils' dots) and once during middle school with markers. This second attempt was much more fun, but it took me forever, because I filled every single little space with colors. My parents still have that drawing framed and hanging in their living room! ;)
DeleteSo wonderful that your drawing is hung on a wall and still shared and enjoyed. that is a treasure.
DeleteVery interesting way to paint. Wonderful! And You have capted the character in this way, wow!
ReplyDeleteThe fun part was to use very cheap markers with funny tips and in a limited amount of colors, just the more basic 10, which is a departure for me from the luxurious array of Copics I can normally pick from. :)
DeleteI find Pointillism needs quite a great deal of insight and attention, you have managed to apply both. Yay for you Astera. Wish I had the time to comment on all your entries and many others but my work is calling me.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Clare, don't worry, it's very hard for me to comment on all the posts of the people that I have started following since the beginning of the challenge!
DeleteWeirdly enough, this is one of the most spontaneous and fast drawings I've ever done. I had no fear of messing up: recycled paper (the back of an old scientific article I used for my dissertation), cheap markers, sitting on the floor and keeping an eye on Bella to prevent her eating the cheap markers...what could go wrong? and if it did who would care? :D