YELLOW IMPRESSIONISTIC
58" x 48" 44,943 brushstrokes 2005
Fractional Brownian Motion (fBm) and Monet's Winter Haystack Painting
Kirby's understanding of Dulcinea's capacity grew though creating paintings and allowing her to paint them. Dulcinea never tires from painting strokes, so the number of strokes did not need to be limited once Kirby knew she could paint in a variety of manners, unattended and without problems. In his next painting, Kirby was determined to use thousands of strokes.
This painting combines concepts from the French Impressionism and Pointillism, with procedural texturing techniques used in the animation industry.
The Pointillistic 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 also from across the entire room. Kirby set to research and experimentation helping Dulcinea achieve her own Pointillistic style.
In order to achieve the desired artistic effect, the painting incorporates three passes of twenty-four different colors. These were softly applied using a new stroke, called the "point." When viewed up-close a rich diversity 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 called factional fractional Brownian movement (fBm) is borrowed from that industry. This fBm creates texture for the brushwork and the colors in the painting.
The final painting has 44,943 distinct brushstrokes and took more than two days of continuous effort by Dulcinea.
