Been awhile.

The gap of postings have becoming more and more longer––from a week to a month and now, 8 months. I came up with this pointilism painting recently.

Titled ‘Pink Meadow’ this art visualise one of the many landscapes that I picked from my brain. If life is about creating the ideal world that we want to live in, I would paint meadows, people with only good hearts, more trees and animals (excluding the creepy crawly ones).

When I visited Albertina in Vienna, I came across some paintings by Paul Signac, Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, and Georges Seurat, using a technique called Pointillism. Now, although this is not something new to me, seeing the paintings up close made me want to try the technique. So I bought a sketchbook and some markers and made some studies on the technique. I am just using markers because they are easy to carry around in my pouch case.

The idea behind pointillism is that when we place two basic colours next to each other, the colours will optically blend into a different colour. But that was then, I think I will make some adjustment and use whatever colours I have in my hands to do this technique. I layered two colours to make one and sometimes layered a few colours to achieve the colours I want. Maybe I can name this technique to Neo-Pointillism.

About Pointillism

Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of colour are applied in patterns to form an image. Pointillism takes advantage of the way our eyes work with our brains—instead of seeing thousands of dots of colour, we will be seeing an image from a distance.

The technique is associated with its inventor, Georges Seurat, and his student, Paul Signac, who both espoused Neo-Impressionism, a movement that flourished from the late 1880s to the first decade of the 20th century.