Portrait Art Series: Poking Around

                                                 Portrait: Gone Flying   by: Greg Smith, Jan. 2010

       

We are excited to introduce the first of an ongoing series on portrait art.

This is one of my favorite pieces. The process I used in this piece is called pointillism. It is comprised of nothing but tiny little dots. The media of choice on this one is a black sharpie.

Pointillism, also called divisionism invented by  Georges Seurat , is a technique of painting elaborated from impressionism, in which dots of unmixed color are placed side by side on a white background so that from a distance they fuse in the viewer's eye into appropriate intermediate tones.

The main difference here is that I chose to go with a black sharpie instead.

If you would like to try tour hand at the art of pointillism follow the link

http://www.epcomm.com/center/point/point.htm

If you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact us. Also, if you would like a portrait of your own, for yourself or as a gift for someone else contact us as well.

Thanks,

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Hi, and thank you for visiting our blog. Judging by the post title it can be deduced that we are new to the whole blogging scene. We are very excited about being apart of the blogging world and are looking forward to producing a meaningful and hopefully helpful blog. Our intentions for starting this blog is to spread and share our passion for portrait art. There will be regular postings of our artwork as well as a variety of postings dealing with the art world focusing on portrait art. Please feel free to contact us with questions and any comment or suggestion is always welcome!

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