1. Pointillism
Landscape Painting

2. What is a landscape? A landscape is the visible features of land
Physical: Mountains, hills, trees
Water bodies
Land cover
Human made structures
Weather conditions
Artists began depicting landscapes in earnest when industrialization changed landscapes with pollution and sprawl (1800’s-Industrial Revolution)

4. How were landscapes painted “traditionally”?

5. Realistically depict features from studies outside. Paint in a studio
Wivenhoe Park, John Constable 1816

6. How did Impressionism change landscapes?

7. Claude Monet, Poppies Blooming….

8. Impressionism -1870
Group of artists in France wanted to start a new, radical style of art
Paint tubes allowed them to paint outside
Railways made travel around countryside easy
Invention of cameras made realism unnecessary

9. Monet, Landscape at Giverny

10. Impressionism-1870 Works considered “cutting edge” Shocking to public
Criticized as bad Artists
By 1900’s widely accepted style
Inspired many new ideas in Art

11. What was George Seurat’s vision for Impressionism
Seurat close up

12. Pointillism-Georges Seurat

13. Georges Seurat (soo-RAH) 1859-1891
MEET GEORGE!
Georges Seurat (soo-RAH)
Seurat the DOT!
Born in Paris, France
Painter spent his life studying color and color theory
Invented a style of painting known as POINTILLISM

14. What is pointillism?
HINT: How am I made?

15. Horse by George Seurat

16. The term "Pointillism" was first used with the work of Georges Seurat.
Pointillism is a form of painting in which tiny dots of primary-colors are used to generate secondary colors..
The term "Pointillism" was first used with the work of Georges Seurat.        
Sunday Afternoon in the Park by George Seurat

19. How eye sees color

23. Fun Facts:
This painting is 7 feet high by 10 feet wide.
There are 3,456,000 dots that were painted to make up the painting
Each dot is only about 1/16th of an inch
It was featured in Ferris Buehler’s Day Off
It was the subject of a musical

25. Painting the color wheel
You are going to create a color wheel to help you with the Pointillism Project.
Primary- red, blue, yellow
Secondary- purple, green, and orange
Intermediate- yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, red-violet, red-orange, yellow-orange
When making the intermediate colors you mix the secondary color first then add more of the primary color.
Example- red-orange: mix red and yellow to get orange then add more red

26. FIRST: Choose a landscape from the reference file
NOW : Practice drawing it in your sketchbook
Where is the background? Middleground? Foreground?
Draw the physical elements
SATISFIED? Draw it on the Canvas Paper

27. The next step is to use pointillism (dots) to create blending of colors in your painting.
Look at your painting, where you used green, you can fill that area in using a tint and shade of green, and yellow -green dots that are close together.
This technique can be used for all your colors. Use a tint, shade, and intermediate colors for the dots.
ALL DOTS SHOULD BE CLOSE TOGETHER AND SMALL.

32. Enrichment: How to create a pointillist painting in Photoshop

33. Enrichment: Explore pointillism
Color pencil pointillist work
Create brochure for Sunday afternoon
Create a digital pointillist painting