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Zed A. Shaw, Painter
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Zed A. Shaw, Painter

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Personal artistic explorations in pigment. Follow @lzsthw is for http://learncodethehardway.com  programming books and code stuff.

Miami Beach, FL
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    1. Zed A. Shaw, Painter‏ @zedshaw Feb 14
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      This painting was a total of about 30 minutes, but if I kept working it and altering it and refining it eventually it would become not as intense and have more refined details mostly on accident. In other painting styles if you kept working the painting you'd destroy it.

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    2. Zed A. Shaw, Painter‏ @zedshaw Feb 14
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      The other hack to this style of painting is the exploitation of optical mixing. Optical mixing is where I make something seem like it's mixed in the paint by just putting the two colors next to each other and letting the optics of your eye (and brain's perception) mix it.pic.twitter.com/x0xjgZMUJ4

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    3. Zed A. Shaw, Painter‏ @zedshaw Feb 14
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      So if you take this still of the painting (shrunk down) the bushes look like they don't have really red in them, but are just dull green, and you can't really see any orange. They "read" as green bushes that are not crazy green.pic.twitter.com/jI1m4wTEhN

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    4. Zed A. Shaw, Painter‏ @zedshaw Feb 14
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      But if I zoom in close you can see that there is very pure yellow and red right next to the green, even straight orange. Up close, it has an abstract quality. Far away these color textures mix together optically before hitting your eye and create a scintillation effect.pic.twitter.com/hPiCMQoSSC

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    5. Zed A. Shaw, Painter‏ @zedshaw Feb 14
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      This is what Van Gogh was doing, and it's also why photos of his paintings (and Monet's) are not very good. Cameras don't have a brain that interprets optical mixing so it doesn't show it as well, but if you walked up close to this painting you'd see he does it.pic.twitter.com/OqmKaEP93k

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    6. Zed A. Shaw, Painter‏ @zedshaw Feb 14
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      I'll do a better actual process demo tomorrow, but that's the "theory" behind the Russian Impressionism style. It's exploiting things about paint that normally cause people problems but in this style make for very interesting energetic paintings full of color and abstraction.

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    7. Zed A. Shaw, Painter‏ @zedshaw Feb 14
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      Ehem...assuming you can actually do it. Since it is using some common mistakes to make a painting sometimes you go too far and then end up actually just making a painting that's a muddy horrible mess that makes no sense. But, that's why the palette knife is for. Scrape it!

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    8. Zed A. Shaw, Painter‏ @zedshaw Feb 14
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      Final point: With all impressionist art you have to look at them from two distances: 1. Far away and they "snap" together and look real with a glow and movement to them. It sometimes hurts people's eyes. 2. Up close and it looks abstract and interesting. Stand back and look:pic.twitter.com/Ft5qZqoHNQ

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    9. Zed A. Shaw, Painter‏ @zedshaw Feb 14
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      Addendum: I almost forgot 1 tiny point that helps this style work: One "rule" you do follow is to remove texture from the dark passages. If you have texture in shadows then they look like they aren't shadows because they have "volume", so you knife them down periodically.pic.twitter.com/38Hrl8XDuR

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    10. Steve Faulkner‏ @southpolesteve Feb 14
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      Absolutely loving these painting threads. Can I buy "Learn to Paint the Hard Way" yet?

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      Zed A. Shaw, Painter‏ @zedshaw Feb 15
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      I've had something like that in the works for years but I keep coming up with new things to do that make it easier to learn.

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