Abstract 3 - Woman in Red is a figurative abstract oil painting of a dark haired woman in a red dress and lipstick, seated with arms folded in a vibrantly coloured room. I borrowed Matisse and the Neo Impressionists divisionist method to make the colours zing.

Divisionism is the technique of painting separate dots or patches of different colors in close proximity, which interact optically in the viewer's perception to generate more luminous colors. The paints are not actually mixed but viewed close together, so the separate colors of light reflected by the paints mixes in the eye and brain; the process is called additive mixing and is also used by computer monitors. This is different from mixing different paints together to produce a new color by subtractive mixing which is also how laser printers produce colors.

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