Video: "Bathing a beagle" made of colored sugar balls. Modern pointillism by Joel Brochu
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Despite the fact that many people are deeply convinced that creative homework in schools and universities does not inspire students at all, and they still create the most interesting projects outside the curriculum, they often have to be convinced of the opposite. So today we will talk about amazing work Joel Brochu, a Canadian student at the University of Fine Arts in Ontario, tasked with painting a painting using pointillism technique … And the result is truly impressive! Joel Brochu's homework assignment was a "spot" drawing of a chair from 22 different shades of paint. As the artist says, it was painstaking work, but the effect was amazing. The finished work was somewhat reminiscent of Van Gogh's paintings, and this inspired the author to the next feat. After all, if with simple dots of paint it is possible to artistically reproduce what we see around us, and to do this even without having a great talent of an artist, what can happen if an artist undertakes an experiment?
Captivated by the pointillism technique, Joel Brochu first experimented with M & Ms, but soon discovered that, due to the size of the pills, people would have to move several tens of meters to view the image. It was necessary to find a replacement for this material, something small but bright. Thank God, one day the artist looked at a local bakery to shop, and noticed a bag of nonparella in the window, a sugar sprinkle for cupcakes in the form of tiny multi-colored balls no more than one and a half millimeters in diameter. Then Joel Brochu decided on the prototype of the future picture: it was a photograph of a cute dog of the Beagle breed, found on one photo site. Its author, photographer Shingo Uchiyama, kindly provided a picture for an experiment, and the process began.
Using tweezers, which are usually used by jewelers, Joel Brochu carefully placed each sugar dot on the canvas, having previously attached double-sided tape to it. To be sure, he covered the work with a thin layer of glue on top. In total, the artist spent about 8 months laying out "Bathing a Beagle" in six different colors in a non-parcel. The work progressed so slowly that in the middle of the way, according to the author, he was already ready to completely abandon the project. However, looking back at the work done, he nevertheless decided that he wanted to see the end result to death, and henceforth did not allow himself defeatist thoughts. The finished image of "Bathing a Beagle" consists of over 221 thousand sugar balls, and the author recommends viewing it from a distance of 4-5 meters. Just amazing work, isn't it?
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