Autumn Candles - Dot painting

Autumn Candles dot painting for the hour before bed

Candles burning down among pumpkins, pine cones and scattered leaves. It is a still life made for slow evenings, and dotting it has the same unhurried feel as the scene itself.

Unhurried by design: a still life of candles and pumpkins pairs well with dot painting, which needs only markers and half an hour.

What is in the dot painting kit

Everything you need comes in one box:

• Printed canvas: firm, with clean outlines.
• Guide: a single page to read first.
• Double-tip markers:
  • 1.0 mm tip: for the candle bodies and the pumpkins.
  • 0.5 mm tip: for the flames and the leaf edges.

A canvas that fits the room it ends up in

Finished, it belongs above a sideboard or beside the fireplace, where subject and setting agree with each other. Bold ink on a light canvas sits easily next to almost any wall.

Put the phone in a drawer and let the candlelit scene set a slow pace for an hour of quiet dotting. A dot art painting kit with everything included.

Making light out of ink

The flames are the one part of this canvas you hardly touch. Everything else gains its glow from what surrounds it, so the denser you dot the table, the brighter the candles appear.

Tiny marks add up to a soft glow, and finishing the pumpkins and pine cones brings a quiet kind of pride.