Pointillism ATC

Is this senders choice as far as theme/subject matter?

Yes

Georges Seurat invented the technique of pointillism as an excercise in colour theory-the point was not that dots of oil made up a painting rather that green was not green but made up of many colours and when viewed from a normal distance appeared to be green-simply painting with dots would not be pointillism its the way the dots interact to create colours thats important

Yes. You're right. But for simplicity's sake I don't expect everyone to create an ATC comparable to Seurat's work. It's beautiful either way.

I've been wanting to get back into doing some ATC's and this sounds like fun.

I've always been a big fan of Seurat, but never thought if attempting pointillism myself. Thanks for the opportunity to get my points across. ;o)

Great idea! I can't wait to make one. I haven't done this since high school art class.

@Kyrian Exactly! My daughter is doing this as her final art project for her senior year! I think the kids do an amazing job! It's not exactly "pointillism" as described by @rick1949 but you get the "point" LOL! :)

I always like the magazine ads and posters that were kind of pointillism..the ones where, if you look closer are made up from a bazillion tiny little pictures to make one big one! Too cool!

Can it be black and white? I know that's not traditionally the idea of pointillism. I've done a few poster size pieces and I really like the way they look in black.

I don't see why not. I've seen people do them that way.

Actually pointillism technically has nothing to do with color, it refers only to the application of the dot, the color side of it is called divisionism, and both were employed by artists Signac and Seurat. This then became known to modern artists as scientific pointillism. And the whole thing was invented not by Seurat, but by Signac. I'm an Art Historian specializing in Modern and Contemporary Art and I just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in.

@Jemennuie I'm glad you asked about black and white. I was going to ask the very same thing! I believe the black and white version is called stippling.