What is pointillism?

Pointillism is when artists make pictures using only tiny dots of color.

Imagine you're playing with your favorite building blocks, each block is one color, and when you put them all together, they form a bigger picture. That’s kind of what pointillism is like, but instead of blocks, the artist uses small dots on paper or canvas.

In pointillism, every part of the picture is made up of little dots, each one a different color. When you look at the whole picture from far away, all those dots blend together to make shapes and colors that seem smooth, like a real scene or object.

It's like when you're looking at a flower garden from across the street, it looks colorful and full of life. But if you get really close, you can see each individual flower or petal, just like you can see each little dot in a pointillist painting.

So instead of coloring big areas with one color, the artist uses lots of small dots to make the picture come alive!