TATTOO A BANANA?!???!??? Seurat, Pointilism, and Edible Art! CAC WK. 2

This week we will tackle POINTILISM.

What is THAT, you ask???

Pointillism is an art technique of neo-impressionist painting. Both pointillism and stippling are the same thing, but pointillism is the original name. The basis of pointillism is creating a bunch of dots in different densities to create a blended image (When looked at all together) to the viewers. Pointillism was developed by Georges Seurat in 1886 as a variation of the art form impressionism.

Georges Seurat (1859-1891)

"A sunday afternoon on the island of la grande jatte" 
(click on the link to learn more about Seurat and his famous painting)

 

 detail

 

The Drawings 

Aman-Jean. 1882-1883
Conté crayon - 62.2 x 47.6 cm
New York, The Metropolitan Museum

 

Study for Bathers at Asnières (known as The Echo), 1883
Conté crayon - 31.2 x 24 cm
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery

Get to the point: Georges Seurat and Pointillism from Nate Heck on Vimeo.



SOOOOOO, 
              HOW IS IT DONE?
well, check this out....




The Making of "Hero" from Miguel Endara on Vimeo.





Value Scale:

tiger

eye



MORE POINTILISM EXAMPLES HERE 

DIDN'T YOU SAY SOMETHING ABOUT A BANANA??????????

 

 
WHY NOT,



The technique was conceived by Phil Hansen, author of Tattoo a Banana: And Other Ways to Turn Anything and Everything Into Art . Hansen is a multimedia artist who works at the intersection of "traditional visual art, pointillism, and offbeat techniques, using media that connect to the subject matter, such as karate chops, tricycle wheel imprints, burger grease, and worms." And bananas.
In the video below, he shows exactly how to tattoo a banana. All you need is a banana, a pin, and your imagination.

 

And for those of you who are itchy about wasting bananas, here's the trick. If you refrigerate the fruit in question, the skin will brown so that you can witness the transformation, but the deterioration of the fruit itself will be restrained, leaving it available for all of your banana needs.
For more information and to share photos of your banana art, visit Phil in the Whaaat?.

I hope to see all of you Art Monkeys next week!!

Ms. Jen






Orange you glad I didn't say banana?  ;)

Howard

Thanks, Angie;)

Delcastle