I've been an art instructor for over 15 years mostly working with middle and junior high school students. This channel is designed to help young and new artists, of any age, learn a variety of different techniques used in the making of two-dimensional art. I prefer working with traditional equipment in my art, but many of these techniques will transfer to digital media. In this channel, we'll discuss the Elements of Art and how they can be used individually or in combination to create your work. Some of the things we'll cover are drawing techniques, colored pencils techniques, inking techniques, watercolors and more. The idea is to build your technical skills through the use of the elements of art to improve your creativity. The better you become with the techniques, the less you have to think about them and the more time you can spend creating and developing your style.
Manny, you did an excellent demonstration and explanation of each of the different techniques. I look forward to trying some of these in some of my paintings. Thanks again.
Thanks Cliff. I really work hard to get my students to understand the "why" things work. It makes it easier for them to apply the techniques to their own work.
Wow! I’ve painted for years and love the idea of pointillism but this simple exercise helped me to better visualize how to create these colors since I tend to use many premixed colors ….this is so helpful! Thank you!
It's my pleasure. I've been doing this exercise with my students for years and it really helps them understand color mixing proportions that can later be used when mixing colors traditionally.
sites.google.com/view/mannys-school-of-art Here is the link to my resources page. There is a completed color wheel that you can download. You can also check out my Color Wheel in Pointillism video if you would like to make one yourself. Hope this helps and thanks for watching :)
This is great. But how do I get greys or black without adding black? Also, this seems next to impossible to do with even when a tiny watercolor brush. But perhaps this is why Seurat did much larger paintings than some! Still, I’m going to try this. Thank you! It will be fun nonetheless.
If you are doing this with markers you can create a dark color (not black) by using all three colors with the dots super close together. You can't make grey because grey has white in it, but you can use a grey marker if you need to. If you are working with paints you can add black and white to your palette. If you are using paints you do not have to use the bristles of the brush. You can either use the handle of the brush to create your dots or you can use q-tips. They also sell this micro foam brushes and they work pretty well. Testor # 281213. I hope this helps.
Murphy oil is supposed to be all natural and it does a decent job cleaning the wood. I've also used simple green to clean small projects with good results. I haven't tried this but there is a home remedy formula of 1 part white vinegar+1 part olive oil and a few drops of lemon oil that seems to do a nice job on wood. Make sure to test it out on some scrap wood before using on your project. Hope this helps.
Glad I could help. This works really well with acrylics and other paints, I just found it easier to explain with markers before moving on to paints. Please let me know how your painting turns out.
Pues hablo de que lo correcto es denominar "DIVISIONISMO" a la técnica inventada por Seurat y no "Puntillismo", algo que ya un genial seguidor y amigo del artista, Paul Signac, dejó escrito para aclaración de quienes no saben mucho o nada de esta técnica y les dió por llamarla "puntillismo", que es como tanto ignaro la sigue denominando incluso en nuestros días. Nada más. Por otro lado me alegra que ya lo supieras, pero me alegraría más que la denominaras __a esta técnica-- con su verdadero apelativo, el de Divisionismo. De cualquier modo no me retracto en nada de lo que expresé en mi primer comentario. Por cierto que este será el último que haga sobre la cuestión. En el fondo me importa poco cómo denomines a esta técnica, ni lo que tratas de enseñar en tu vídeo. Un saludo.
Hi Federico and thank you for commenting on my video. I had to translate your comments so I hope nothing was lost in the translation. You are correct that when this technique was first introduced by Seurat and Signac it was originally called "divisionism" however the term didn't stick so it was changed to "pointillism" which is what most people know it as today. Regardless of what it's called the premise is that the colors are placed next to each other to let our eyes mix them optically. It is a great technique for learning how to mix colors and that was the point that I was trying to get across in the video. Seurat has always been one of my favorite artist and I meant not disrespect towards his work.
