Impressionist
2005
48’ x 54”
Brushstrokes: 44,943
![Paul Kirby's Impressionist](https://thefusioneer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/y1-yellow-scaled-1.jpg)
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French Impressionism and Pointillism, and animation techniques bring a new brushstroke for Dulcinea called “point” adding texture and color variation. The painting incorporates three passes of twenty-four different colors. Fractional Brownian motion is borrowed from animation to create texture and the colors in the painting which took two full days for Dulcinea to paint.
![Impressionist yellow acrylic painting by Paul Kirby](https://thefusioneer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/y2-yellow-medium.jpg)
Artistic Inspiration
The Pointillism inspiration came while viewing one of Monet’s winter haystack paintings at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The snow on the ground had a magical, painterly quality to it. The painting combines concepts from the French Impressionism and Pointillism, with procedural texturing techniques used in the animation industry.
![Close-up of Impressionist by Paul Kirby](https://thefusioneer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/y3-yellow-closeup.jpg)
Technical Description
While walking through some Roman ruins in Italy, during an artists’ study trip, a fellow artist from the movie special-effect industry mentioned how the Perlin algorithm was often used to create textures, like mountain ranges or dinosaur skin. Fascinated by this idea, a Fractional Brownian Motion (fBm) algorithm created the pattern and points of color you see here.
![Impressionist by Paul Kirby](https://thefusioneer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/y4-yellow-brushwork.jpg)
Outcome
In order to achieve the desired artistic effect, the painting incorporates three passes of twenty-four different colors (six warm and six cool of yellow and purple). When viewed up-close a rich diversity of painterly texture and color is visible. The final painting took more than two days of continuous effort by Dulcinea.