Bangkok-based freelance artist and designer Spider Money produces gorgeous artworks using Micron pen and thousands of tiny dots.
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Showing posts with label Pointillism. Show all posts
Incense Series by Jihyun Park
Korean artist Jihyun Park uses lit incense sticks to burn thousands of tiny holes in rice paper and then mounts the final drawings onto varnished canvases for his 'Incense Series'.
"After reading the books Gulliver’s Travels, Utopia, and Erewhon and seeing the Japanese animated movie Castle in the Sky, I became inspired to develop a relationship between the concept of utopia and the materials that I use in my work. My recent work, Incense Series, focuses on this relationship while searching for the promised harmonic balance that utopia brings. Ironically, the word 'utopia' in Korean is 'Yi Sang Hwang' and 'Hwang' means 'incense'."
"The subjects addressed in my work range from the natural world to memories of the past, reflecting the constant physical and emotional changes in our environment. It is my hope that the 'moments' I captures of my subjects are ones when they are at their most ideal – true utopias. While drawing them with the incense, I am 'holding' a split moment of harmony in my hands."
"After reading the books Gulliver’s Travels, Utopia, and Erewhon and seeing the Japanese animated movie Castle in the Sky, I became inspired to develop a relationship between the concept of utopia and the materials that I use in my work. My recent work, Incense Series, focuses on this relationship while searching for the promised harmonic balance that utopia brings. Ironically, the word 'utopia' in Korean is 'Yi Sang Hwang' and 'Hwang' means 'incense'."
"The subjects addressed in my work range from the natural world to memories of the past, reflecting the constant physical and emotional changes in our environment. It is my hope that the 'moments' I captures of my subjects are ones when they are at their most ideal – true utopias. While drawing them with the incense, I am 'holding' a split moment of harmony in my hands."
Hole Punch Dot Art by Nikki Douthwaite
British artist Nikki Douthwaite uses hundreds of thousands of colored paper dots produced by a hole punch, to assemble incredibly detailed artworks.
She painstakingly sticks them one by one with a pair of tweezers on a canvas layered with double-sided sticky tape.
“My goal is to create two experiences for the viewer. The first is a close up experience of either thousands of tiny, mixed up colored dots. The second experience is the far away view, the viewers’ eyes and brain mix the dots and colors together, revealing the image as a whole.”
Check her website: www.nikkidouthwaite.co.uk/
She painstakingly sticks them one by one with a pair of tweezers on a canvas layered with double-sided sticky tape.
“My goal is to create two experiences for the viewer. The first is a close up experience of either thousands of tiny, mixed up colored dots. The second experience is the far away view, the viewers’ eyes and brain mix the dots and colors together, revealing the image as a whole.”
Check her website: www.nikkidouthwaite.co.uk/
Million Dots Photorealistic Portraits by Miguel Endara
Artist Miguel Endara creates these incredibly detailed pointillism photorealistic portraits made using Sakura Pigma Micron pen (nib size 005, 0.20 mm).
In 2004 an unconscious man was discovered unconscious behind a fast food restaurant dumpster in Richmond Hill, Georgia with no belongings, no ID, no memory of who he was, severe sunburn, and was nearly blind from cataracts. After months of ongoing evaluation from doctors and psychologists, it was determined he was suffering from retrograde amnesia.
He adopted the name Benjaman Kyle, an homage to the fast food joint at which he was discovered, and has embarked on a search for his true identity sparking massive amounts of media coverage and even a short film, 'Finding Benjaman', by John Wikstrom.
Kyle has been denied the ability to obtain a new social security number which in turn prevents him from opening a bank account or having a credit card. The government argues that he already has one, but despite the efforts of fingerprint matching, DNA tests, and exposure on television, he simply cannot determine his true identity.
Miguel Endara was inspired to help him, after catching a screening of 'Finding Benjaman' at the Tribeca Film Festival. The artist made this portrait that took nearly 138 hours to complete, contains roughly 2.1 million of dots to spread awareness for Bengaman’s plight and to help raise money through the sale of prints to support a petition to get him a new social security number.
He also recreates his father’s photocopied face with 3.2 millions of dots.
"Originally I was planning to photograph him with glass on his face, but that was difficult without a good camera and it wouldn’t get good hi-res of the skin and the pores. So I thought the only way to do that inexpensively would be to xerox it or scan it. So used my scanner to scan his face in hi-res of almost 600 dpi which provided me with immense detail. I did so many scans that I ended up just putting them together and kind of making my own final image. So the look you have know is not of one scan, but of probably 2 or 3 scans put together."
"The total number of dots was determined by multiplying the average stippling speed of this piece, 4.25 dots per second, by the amount of time logged in, 210 hours. That translated into 3,213,000. Because I think that number might be off just a few thousand dots or so, I rounded it off to an even 3.2 million."
"I logged in exactly 210 hours of just stippling, but it took nearly one full year to complete from start to finish."
Check his website: miguelendara.com/
Source: theindustry
In 2004 an unconscious man was discovered unconscious behind a fast food restaurant dumpster in Richmond Hill, Georgia with no belongings, no ID, no memory of who he was, severe sunburn, and was nearly blind from cataracts. After months of ongoing evaluation from doctors and psychologists, it was determined he was suffering from retrograde amnesia.
He adopted the name Benjaman Kyle, an homage to the fast food joint at which he was discovered, and has embarked on a search for his true identity sparking massive amounts of media coverage and even a short film, 'Finding Benjaman', by John Wikstrom.
Kyle has been denied the ability to obtain a new social security number which in turn prevents him from opening a bank account or having a credit card. The government argues that he already has one, but despite the efforts of fingerprint matching, DNA tests, and exposure on television, he simply cannot determine his true identity.
Miguel Endara was inspired to help him, after catching a screening of 'Finding Benjaman' at the Tribeca Film Festival. The artist made this portrait that took nearly 138 hours to complete, contains roughly 2.1 million of dots to spread awareness for Bengaman’s plight and to help raise money through the sale of prints to support a petition to get him a new social security number.
He also recreates his father’s photocopied face with 3.2 millions of dots.
"Originally I was planning to photograph him with glass on his face, but that was difficult without a good camera and it wouldn’t get good hi-res of the skin and the pores. So I thought the only way to do that inexpensively would be to xerox it or scan it. So used my scanner to scan his face in hi-res of almost 600 dpi which provided me with immense detail. I did so many scans that I ended up just putting them together and kind of making my own final image. So the look you have know is not of one scan, but of probably 2 or 3 scans put together."
"The total number of dots was determined by multiplying the average stippling speed of this piece, 4.25 dots per second, by the amount of time logged in, 210 hours. That translated into 3,213,000. Because I think that number might be off just a few thousand dots or so, I rounded it off to an even 3.2 million."
"I logged in exactly 210 hours of just stippling, but it took nearly one full year to complete from start to finish."
Check his website: miguelendara.com/
Source: theindustry
Dot Portraits by Nathan Manire
New York-based artist Nathan Manire created these Dot Portraits using large dots and a broad color palette of watercolors.
Check his website: www.nathanmanire.com
Check his website: www.nathanmanire.com
Intricate Drawings on Surfboards by Jarryn Dower
Australian artist Jarryn Dower create artwork on old retired surfboards, giving them a new life, using pointillism technique that can take him up to 30 hours to finish.
“I’ve always spent time down at the beach. I’ve always had a love for the beach and the surrounding areas, and to apply it to a surfboard is combining two of my favourite things.”
“I used to make little surfboards out of offcuts of wood and decorate them. They would be 10cm long and I thought it would be a good idea to find old, thrown out surfboards and chuck some artwork on them."
“Some boards I can work on them and complete in five days, but others can take up to a month. It’s a delicate process.”
“Most of my skills are self-taught, but I have studied graphic designing to enhance those skills.”
“I’ve only just started working with surfboards this year. Drawing’s been a passion for much of my life.”
All images are © Copyright of Jarryn Dower
“I’ve always spent time down at the beach. I’ve always had a love for the beach and the surrounding areas, and to apply it to a surfboard is combining two of my favourite things.”
“I used to make little surfboards out of offcuts of wood and decorate them. They would be 10cm long and I thought it would be a good idea to find old, thrown out surfboards and chuck some artwork on them."
“Some boards I can work on them and complete in five days, but others can take up to a month. It’s a delicate process.”
“Most of my skills are self-taught, but I have studied graphic designing to enhance those skills.”
“I’ve only just started working with surfboards this year. Drawing’s been a passion for much of my life.”
All images are © Copyright of Jarryn Dower
Pooled Oil Paintings by Matthew Davis
Berlin-based artist Matthew Davis created these unique paintings using a technique involves dripping drops of oil paints to form small pools in layers.
Check his website: http://www.matthewdavis.de/
Check his website: http://www.matthewdavis.de/
