Chapter II / The Discipline of the Dot
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A Method, Not a Mood

Four laws that turn brushwork into optics.

01

Same-size dots, always

Every mark on the canvas is the same millimetre disc — the brush hand never improvises, it counts.

02

Pair the complement

Spring-green sits beside magenta-pink so the retina mixes a third hue Seurat never paints.

03

Hold the planar grid

Figures are flat profile silhouettes on horizontal-vertical axes — Hellenic, never spontaneous.

04

Mute every saturation

No hue exceeds about thirty percent — the canvas hums, it never shouts.