Pointillist colors can blend in your eye instead of on a palette — ChillScroll

A sunny pond garden painted with thousands of small colorful dots

Pointillist colors can blend in your eye instead of on a palette

Pointillist painters placed small dots of different colors close together. From a distance, the viewer's eye combines the separate dots into new colors and larger shapes.

Up close: dots. A few steps back: a pond, two birds, and a whole sunny garden.

Source · National Gallery of Art ↗