Realizing Dulcinea never tires from painting strokes, why not create one with thousands of strokes? This painting (58" x 48") combines concepts from the French Impressionist and Pointillism with procedural texturing techniques used in the animation industry.

The Pointilistic inspiration came while viewing one of Monet’s hay-stack paintings at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. His snow shimmered and glistened when viewed from a short distance and from across the entire room. After a period of research and experimentation, Dulcinea achieved her own Pointilistic style as seen here.

The painting incorporates three passes of twenty-four different colors. These were softly applied and blended using a new stroke, called the “point.” When viewed up-close a rich blending of painterly texture and color is visible.

Animators use many tricks and techniques to create objects and add surface textures to these objects. The method for this design is borrowed from that industry.

The final painting has 44,943 distinct brushstrokes and took more than two days of continuous effort by Dulcinea. She never complained.

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