These are the smallest pixels I’ve painted to date. This painting features square subpixels (rectangular full pixels) in a zigzag pattern. Normally, a white/gray pixel contains equal values of red, green, and blue. For this painting, I treated each individual subpixel as a full white pixel. I did this because the adjacent rgb subpixels still blend together to create a feeling of gray/white. This is very effective for squeezing extra information into low-rez grayscale pictures, as long as the features of the painting don’t align with the rgb grid. One example of an undesirable situation for subpixel grayscale rendering would be a lowscale image of a jail cell, where there bars are less than 3 subpixels thick. If they were one or 2 subpixels thick, then they would appear to be a saturated RGBCM or Y rather than gray. I enjoy when this technique breaks down in some parts of a painting.
Oil on 2×4 inch canvas, 2025
These are the smallest pixels I’ve painted to date. This painting features square subpixels (rectangular full pixels) in a zigzag pattern. Normally, a white/gray pixel contains equal values of red, green, and blue. For this painting, I treated each individual subpixel as a full white pixel. I did this because the adjacent rgb subpixels still blend together to create a feeling of gray/white. This is very effective for squeezing extra information into low-rez grayscale pictures, as long as the features of the painting don’t align with the rgb grid. One example of an undesirable situation for subpixel grayscale rendering would be a lowscale image of a jail cell, where there bars are less than 3 subpixels thick. If they were one or 2 subpixels thick, then they would appear to be a saturated RGBCM or Y rather than gray. I enjoy when this technique breaks down in some parts of a painting.
Oil on 2×4 inch canvas, 2025
