Pointillism Detail 6
To help you gain perspective, here is an overview of a larger section of the Kennicott Copper Mine painting that includes all the small detail sections in the previous six blog entries. At this point I added extensive pointillism to some areas of the underpainting. Dots are used to define many of the red walls and to the green foliage in the foreground.
At this stage more pointillism is added to the foliage, blues and purples define the shadows. Many rooftops, the overhead stairway, and bridge walkway are delineated by the use of dots. A small amount of value changes appear in the shadow areas of the glacial moraine, but most of it remains as the original underpainting with little pointillism at this point. The lower third of the painting is my focus for now.
More next week.
Gail Niebrugge, Alaska Artist
