Making Art with the Stippling Painting Technique
I've always found that using the stippling painting technique is one of the most meditative ways to spend an afternoon in the studio. There's something almost hypnotic about the repetitive motion of the brush hitting the surface, creating tiny little islands of color that eventually merge into a full image. If you've ever looked at a painting and realized it's actually made up of thousands of individual dots rather than long, sweeping strokes, you've seen this method in action. It's a bit like magic—up close it looks like a chaotic mess of speckles, but as you step back, your brain does the heavy lifting and stitches everything together into a coherent scene. ...