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What are Negative Paintings?

Patti Maciesz March 17, 2016

My method is best explained visually; 

I start with a regular photo.
I digitally invert the colors to get a negative, at this point the picture resembles a film negative.
I simply paint what I see on this inverted photo. Sometimes I even do it "blind" and guess what the inverted colors would be. Helps to have a color wheel memorized.  
This is the final print. I photograph the painting and then invert the colors again to get this. 
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