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Starting a Pointillism Painting of Mendenhall Glacier
Photo of a large canvas with a pencil sketch of a view of the Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska. I began by adding many different colored dots to the top of the canvas showing a section of the...
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Pointillism is the Layering of Many, Many Dots
At this stage of painting the Mendenhall Glacier I started to layer dots over most of the canvas. Doing this will allow me to evaluate the total composition, and establish color values. I’m beginning...
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First Layer of Dots on Pointillism Painting
At this stage I’m working to establish mid-values in dots throughout the entire canvas on the new Mendenhall Glacier painting. Since the glacier will be mostly light colored values, I’ve left it blank...
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Breaking the Myth; Pointillism Dots are not Round!
Contrary to popular belief, the dots that I use to create paintings in pointillism, are not round, are not equal in size, and are not carefully placed. This close up of my Mendenhall Glacier painting...
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Adding More Dots to the Mendenhall Painting
At this stage of the Mendenhall Glacier painting I’m adding dots to the white spaces between the first layer of dots, using different colors. I’m still working in mostly mid-values, except in the...
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Defining Shapes in the Mendenhall Painting
This close up detail of the Mendenhall Glacier painting shows the many values of dark paint used to establish the shape of the branches in the small spruce tree as it is surrounded by the colorful...
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Painting the Light Values on the Mendenhall Glacier
In this close-up view of the Mendenhall Glacier painting I begin to add light values of color to the white space that is the glacier. This is the rough initial application, and many more layers of...
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Defining the Glacier in the Mendenhall Painting
At this stage in the Mendenhall Glacier painting I’m evaluating the values in the glacier, and am convinced that I need to darken the water to give the ice of the glacier more dominance. I’ll figure...
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Experimenting with Darker Values in the Mendenhall Painting
At this stage in the Mendenhall Glacier painting, I’ve darkened the water and I like how it looks. I’ll deal with the lost lupine later. I also darkened the ridge on the upper left behind the glacier....
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Creating Depth in a Painting
At this stage in the Mendenhall Glacier painting I grayed back the mountain at the top behind the glacier using greens and blues mixed with each of their complementary colors, and deleted all...
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Painting a Base of Mid Values in the Foreground
At this point in the Mendenhall glacier painting you might think that I’m beginning to “loose it”, because I’ve obliterated the three dimensional look of the foliage in the foreground. This is a step...
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Painting Foreground Detail with Pointillism
At this stage of the Mendenhall Glaceir painting I’m adding dark values to the foreground foliage, and loosely defining wildflowers. This is an exercise in developing darks and lights, and making sure...
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Painting Pointillsim Detail to the Mid-Ground
Detail of the middle ground in the Mendenhall Glacier painting. I’m nearing the final stages of the glacier painting and now is the time to begin to add detail. I do this by using much smaller dots....
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Is this Painting Finished?
At this stage of the Mendenhall Glacier painting I’ve run out of ideas and I’ve been so absorbed in the painting that I can’t look at it objectively any longer. When I reach this stage I let the...
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Original Painting Documentation
Two of Alaska’s finest photographers, actually two of the United State’s finest photographers, live in Wasilla, Alaska. Recently, husband and wife Fred and Randi Hirschmann approached me with an...
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