Final Week of Class
17 Feb 2026 07:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wayfaringwordhack ...and we are supposed to paint two pictures from our own photographs. I have been doing this for a while, of course, but it feels more weighty now because someone called it "our graduation" painting. 🤪. I have done two, but I think I will do another to replace the olive trees that perhaps highlights more of the things this course was specifically about. I'll see if I have more time before the weekend.
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Date: 17 Feb 2026 09:16 pm (UTC)Wow!
Date: 17 Feb 2026 10:33 pm (UTC)The second is what I think of as linear pointillism, done with lines instead of dots, but a similar pixellated effect. You can achieve different results because the lines let you play with direction, straight vs. curved, in ways that dots don't.
Thank you for sharing your lovely art!
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Date: 18 Feb 2026 08:18 pm (UTC)Linear pointillism is a very fascinating concept. I like it.
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Date: 19 Feb 2026 12:17 am (UTC)If you look around the impressionist and similar styles, you'll probably spot more. Van Gogh did it in some of his paintings, most famously "The Starry Night," but also some of his field paintings and even self-portraits.
Oh, and I found an exercise for it:
https://riversideschoolsart.weebly.com/line-movement.html
Some psychedelic art also uses curling lines:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e6/67/2b/e6672b8c6fdadb90bfafcb009b0a230b.jpg
This cool piece uses dots for the cobblestones and curving lines for the bank above:
https://mattbeardart.com/bending-lines/
If you have a good gallery or art museum near you, that's a good place to look for how painters use lines. If not, try a library to see if they have picture books of art history.
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Date: 17 Feb 2026 11:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 18 Feb 2026 03:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 19 Feb 2026 05:59 pm (UTC)The second one isn't showing for me. :(