I developed Dotting as a painting technique in 2015. What began just as an idea in my mind has become a perfection orientated process based on first artworks and sketches. The technique Dotting requires above all three things: patience, sensitivity and an ease of mind.
Dotting as an illustration technique
The particular thing about Dotting artwork is the tool that is used for it. The colour is applied precisely using syringes so that an ornamental composition of elements joined by minimal colour transitions is created.
Each object is sketched, constructed and finally created on watercolor paper.
It’s all about the technique. I use syringes for applying colour.
The object and the process
As a graphic artist, I focus on the visualisation of organic forms and creatures, among other things using a technique where medical syringes are used to apply the colour. Dotting, as I call the technique, creates an ornament-like structure in which the focus is not on the realistic part, but on the unique. For this reason, nature with its living creatures is one of the central themes for my work.
By choosing the object the sketching and capturing of an optimal structure for the Dotting technique begins. The created structure is the main part of every artwork and represents the visual look and the effect generated by the Dotting technique. If the structure misfits, the whole composition appears unbalanced and unequal.
Looking at the Dotting artwork it is not about the object, it is more about the process itself and its single steps. Starting with the first sketches, studies and compositions up to the last step – applying the colour to the paper by using the syringes in a meditative and concentration requiring way. I want the viewer to experience the process in a visual and mental way.
