Video: Paintings made from millions of ink dots. Pointillism by Miguel Endara
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Spanish artist Miguel Endara certainly has the perseverance of a bronze statue, angelic patience and a whole car of free time. Otherwise, he would not have had a single chance to succeed in such a complex and painstaking work as drawing pictures from dots, in technology pointillism … Every day he has to spend 6-8 hours, bending over a sheet of paper and squeezing an ink pen in his hand. The author's last project was a painting called Hero, a portrait of his own father, drawn from 3.2 million points … We wrote about some pointillists on Culturology. Ru, remember at least the dotted portraits of Paul Normansell, the portrait of a dog made of sugar balls by Joel Brochu, paintings by Benjamin Laading. Some say this process is calming and helps to streamline thoughts. For others, such monotonous work, on the contrary, is annoying. Miguel Endara certainly belongs to the first category of artists, and I must say, there are not many people like him in art.
If the artist was an Indian, he would surely have been given the name "Steady Hand". Without this feature, drawing portraits from tiny dots would be simply impossible. It is difficult even to imagine a person who while away days, or even weeks, putting on a marked sheet of paper point by point, filling the space so that in the end a full-fledged image is formed from the points. With light and shadow, midtones and smooth transitions. So, a portrait of his own father, succinctly named Hero, took Miguel Endara 210 hours, and this is neither more nor less, almost a whole month of life.
You can see how the process of drawing pictures in the technique of pointillism looks like in the video: this is how Miguel Endara painted a portrait of his father.
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