Mezzotint and more

While looking for artists working in mezzotint, found an amazing art by an artist Margaret van Patten. 

Paper Thin

photo by Harold Hutchinson
Etching with mezzotint

The image is rich in content – messages from conscious and subconscious levels merge in an emotional and elegant manner. The technical diversity the artist applied to creating the plate makes for a complex yet un-crowded image.

Love her work!

Digital Art Week

This week goes under the flag of digital art for me thanks to a couple of links from friends.

First of all, my friend Tanya Ostroverhova sent me a link to the exhibition of mobile phone pictures by her son Egor Abaturov.

The page starts with a lot of right-up in Russian. Don’t be spooked, scroll down, you’ll get to the pictures pretty soon.

Another digital art discovery of mine is International Association of Mobile Digital Artists or iAMDA.

The site is very large and I am only at the beginning of exploring it myself. Will report more later. For now, I just wat to say that mobile digital media seem to be opening more and more of new convinient on-the-go tools for creativity. An artist can create now everywhere and any time, not just in a studio and with a large arsenal of physical objects like paints, canvases and so on. Mobile phone can be one’s art-studio in a poket!