"Watering Can" A black and white pointillism illustration

Artist

Matthew James Taylor

Medium

Black felt-tip pen on art paper

Date

11 Jul 2009

Creation time

About an hour

Tags

Black and white art

Drawings

Felt tip pen

Pointillism

Still life

Comments by the artist

I sat in our backyard today and drew the corner of our garden. I chose a pointillism style just for something different. It sure does take a lot of time to build up tone with little dots!

I paid close attention to the misalignment of the bricks and the resulting shadows and gaps between them - I think this really makes the picture interesting. Rather than drawing everything I could see I let the image fade to white at the perimeter, this was very easy to do with the pointillism technique - I simply used fewer and fewer dots as I got close to the edge of the page.

The plant pot has some bulbs coming up that we planted about a month ago. It will be nice when they start flowering because the garden looks quite bare in winter.