Don Forster spends thousands of hours sitting at a desk armed with only a felt tipped pen, a piece of artist's press board and a large magnifying glass. Using unwavering hand-eye coordination, he repeatedly presses pen to paper making millions of dots come together into a picture.

You might think it simple until you see some of the finished drawings displayed around the room. The delicate use of shading and definition make the cougar and bobcat look like they're about to leap out at you.

Don's method is called pointillism.

What is pointillism? It's a technique of painting that uses many tiny dots to form a picture. In traditional paintings, colors are mixed before being put to paper or canvas, which can dull them to a certain degree. With pointillism, two colors, or shades of one color, sit right next to each other so that the eye mixes them in a process called "optical mixing." This makes the finished picture appear brighter or softer, whichever the artist decides to make you see.

Don considers himself self taught, having learned the process at the age of fourteen merely by mimicking the work of his Grandfather."He was the best pencil artist I ever saw," says Don."He liked to draw battle scenes." One he remembers in particular had close to 100 men in it, all with varying facial hairs, moustaches and beards. It was the minute details that made it special.