Pointillism Apple

W.A.L.T draw an apple using the art and drawing technique pointillism.

This week our teacher Mr Pickard started a new art project for our shared book and art session. He decided that this week we were going to be doing pointillism. Pointillism is a form of art that uses many dots, that create shades and highlights with the object you are illustrating. The object we were asked to draw was an apple. We could either do this with colour or a pencil. I decided to use a pencil Because I thought it added more effect. How we did this was we drew the outline of our apple either in colour or pencil. Then we decided where the light and dark areas were going to be. We also drew out where the shadow was going to be, based on the position of the light. Once we had sketched out all the essential areas, we started to draw lots and lots of dots, adding more in the areas where the shadows were. If you are thinking of doing this yourself but you want to do it quickly, then I suggest you draw something small, because the larger your drawing is the longer it takes. You can also do pointillism with paint, this is actually the most common pointillism technique used by famous artists, here's the link if you want to check it out; Pointillism Artists.

I found this activity pretty enjoyable and definitely want try it again sometime!

Would you try pointillism?