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Zed A. Shaw, Painter
Zed A. Shaw, Painter
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
Joined June 2008

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    1. Zed A. Shaw, Painter‏ @zedshaw Feb 27
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      Painted this watercolor today in the freezing cold. I think it’s been maybe two years since I did a watercolor outside. At Clearwater Beach.pic.twitter.com/t6zKGQvein

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    2. Laurent Sansonetti‏ @lrz Feb 27
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      Wow, quite beautiful!

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    3. Zed A. Shaw, Painter‏ @zedshaw Feb 27
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      Thanks. I really love watercolor but wow it is hard. It's the inverse of oil painting, and controlling the water to pigment ratios is very difficult. You have to be more cautious than with oils since you can't really correct it. The upside though is it's way more portable.

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    4. Laurent Sansonetti‏ @lrz Feb 27
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      I didn’t know that! TIL.

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    5. Zed A. Shaw, Painter‏ @zedshaw Feb 27
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      Basically, the pigment is mixed into either honey or gum arabic, both which are basically a candy that melts in water then goes solid again. You control the amount of water to control how hard or soft a shape is (think focus), and how dark or light it is. It's also transparent.

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    6. Zed A. Shaw, Painter‏ @zedshaw Feb 27
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      So, it's kind of like layering pieces of liquid stained glass, which is why people really like it. It's super portable because the gum arabic goes solid after about 10 minutes, so you can transport it easily, and a small 1/2" square of it can probably do like 20-100 paintings.

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    7. Laurent Sansonetti‏ @lrz Feb 27
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      What about conservation? Do these need extra care compared to oil paintings? I may be guessing wrong as I have seen some in museums :)

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      Zed A. Shaw, Painter‏ @zedshaw Feb 27
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      Oh hell yeah they need more protection. They find 500 year old paintings rolled up in an attic and fix them up like new. A watercolor is a piece of paper with colorful candy on it, so it will absorb dirt and can get wrecked easily. They put them under museum glass.

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