Dear Chicago House,
Who knew a hail storm could inspire this
A little stumped by the connection? Lets look a little closer. Dots!
This is a painting technique called pointillism and I gave a sneak peak to this piece six weeks ago. I thought it would take me quite a while to complete and I was right.
Here it is in it’s full glory
It is a really easy technique to use.
How to paint a flower abstract using pointillism
- Start by roughly sketching out your flowers. I started at the center of each of my flowers and then simply added petals around my central point.
- You will need a fine paint brush and any sort of paint you like. I actually used drawing inks which were very easy to work with and produced a nice intensity of color.
- Start with one color and fill each of the petals with dots
- Use additional colors to add dimension. You can see I added orange dots on the inner edge of each petal and red dots on the outer edge.
Here is the blue flower in progress
I started with a base of blue dots and added yellow and green on the inner edge and more blue dots on the outer edge of each petal.
Give it a go…it is a good stress buster!
Love from
Creative in Chicago
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This is ingenious! Look so pretty! Just that it needs a lot of patience.
This is just stunning
Hey my goodness just gorgeous
AWESOME
Love this! How big would you recommend and what type of paper?
Hey, adore this! What sort of stuff would you recommend to paint this on?
I used a fine arts paper…but really you could paint this on anything
This painting could be as big or small as you like…it would even work as a hand made greetings card. I used a fine arts paper 18" by 24"
How long dose it take?
Can you use markers?
yes!