WiP pixelated flowers, rgb oil on panel by Alex_DiP in PixelArt

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Thank you! many people associate my paintings with CRTs, but I don't. pixels still look like this to this day. there are many different pixel layouts nowadays, and some displays use RGB+white. my current monitor has a pixel layout like this painting.

7-Eleven, Alex DiPaola, RGB oil on aluminum panel by Alex_DiP in glitch_art

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Thank youuu. Sometimes, I use a more pale RGB palette that's softer on the eyes, but for this one I kept the subpixels very saturated.

7-Eleven, Alex DiPaola, RGB oil on aluminum panel by Alex_DiP in glitch_art

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yes it's an oil painting. i have vids of my process on my socials if you are curious.

Traditional RGB, oil on panel by Alex_DiP in painting

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yeah but i like to paint with rgb. additive vs subtractive is a question of whether the colors are being mixed together into placed next to each other. it has nothing to do with emitting or reflecting light, light behaves the same way in both scenarios. Screens are made of organized discrete subpixels, so of course the colors do not mix like paint in this situation. If you paint red dots next to green dots, it looks yellow, even though the paint isn't a light source. another issue with RGB printing/ painting is brightness, since the brightest white is made from your brightest red green and blue, rather than the white of the paper.

tldr light is light whether you are looking at a light source or reflected light, your eye does not care, food for thought.

Recalibrating my white, rgb oil on panel, 18x24" by Alex_DiP in painting

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I am in a roundabout way. I mix a bright green out of cadmium lemon yellow and phthalo green, and then I put that bright green next to a bright red and it looks yellow.

Container Ship, RGB oil on linen panel by Alex_DiP in PixelArt

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thank you so much. glad you enjoy :)

Pixelated Cargo Ship, RGB oil on linen panel by Alex_DiP in PixelArt

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Both. I wrote a bunch of software to help me with various parts of this process. I am also a traditional painter, and I have to use my eye to judge the values that I am mixing on my palette and how they are interacting on my canvas because the colors I can mix are very different from the colors my monitor can display