Hello @naomipangolin, how are you? you have left me amazed with your technique of pointillism, I differ with you in that it is realistic in the good sense I find it more towards the side of impressionism, by the saturated use of light in some points and then a shadow poderoza I can notice that the scene is a place to the outside where the hard light of the sun has bathed the lap the cicada and part of a cloth, and that is common to find it in impressionism whereas in realism the light is more tricky and the backgrounds are dark.
on the other hand I'm fascinated by your mixture of colored dots gives the feeling of three-dimensionality and transparency in the wings seem very clean and clear to me, the details of their articulation and colors are indeed very similar to reality, maybe there if I accompany the call realistic work because if it looks like a photograph.
Clean work, very careful details and of course all time spent was worth the wait.
thank you for sharing your creation, greetings
peace and love
Thank you for your thoughtful comment @arrozymangophoto!
You are so correct on impressionism, which the well-known would be Georges Seurat the French painter. He use light blue for the main clolor, I use yellow and orange.
And you are also right about this looks like a photo, well, it is from photo.
This pointilism was a kind of a meditation for me, because by following the photo, I knew what to do.
Also realized that whether I am drawing cicada or photography itself? because the snap shot I used had noise that human eyes do not perceive. It only appears on photograph. So I was drawing photograph itself in that sense.
I am normally making soft sculpture and batik now, and my first pointilism in 20 years.
I had a terrible friendship breakup last month, and I really had to relax myself. And surprisingly many steemians are fascinated by this! I am very happy now, by sharing this, also I get receive many comments!
If you are interested, I also posted the earlier process in the post;
[day1 to 3]
https://steemit.com/art/@naomipangolin/pointilism-cikada-1-to-3rd-day-f4ad34818a3fc
[day4 to 6]
https://steemit.com/artzone/@naomipangolin/cikada-pointilism-day-4-to-6-8ff4bab04a44b
And thanks again for taking time to see my post😊