An experiment that I suddenly realised I had to indulge in. It is made from a selfmade almost entirely black and white noise image. Then I used the clone tool to find images in the nothingness, only cloning the noise image itself. The result reminds me a bit of mezzotint where you scratch the surface of a copper plate in an evenly distributes way and then you polish the white areas back.
A man who smokes a reads. A bird and a face looking like the way you would portrait a Pharaoh in 1880 Paris.
I will try this again some time soon.
Here is how to make a mezzotint:
And here is an example of a eighteenth century mezzotint.
@katharsisdrill - I created a few actual mezzotints a few decades ago.
I like the creative part of scraping the image out of the plate, but rocking the plate is a bitching and totally boring job. I had checked on-line and seen a few YouTube videos of artists making a rig for it, but cannot understand why a perfectly rocked plate is not available commercially? No man can be as precise as a machine, and the end result should be a perfect, flawless plate that would print velvety black (that is, if you are using black ink of course). On mine, you can see the lines where I was sloppy.
Dutchman with funny Hat:
you gave me an idea about posting these - I got a couple more, but also some etchings where I use aquatint as a background to scrape the images out.
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That is really cool. I can see how it works well with your art, but it is true that preparing the plate is a bit of a job. I have worked with drypoint, etching, aquatint and engraving + combinations and some strange experiments that I never really finished (I used a laserprint paper with a halftone image in negative. By applying some cellulose thinner i could get part of the etching ground to lift, leaving a very untidy halftone image. I mostly combined it with normal etching)
I have made I think 2019 will be the year where I go back to some of the classic graphic art forms. I remember that a friend and I asked if the academy would buy some preprepared plates for us, but all yuo could get was handworked plates from Japan.
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Thanks - I have a friend in Serbia, she teaches printmaking at the university in Novi Sad. I gave her (some of) my plates, the above included, to print. She will bring it next time she is in Vienna (or else I go there this summer). She offered to rock some plates for me also, but I don't really want her to go through all that trouble for me. She has done so much for me already, getting me into shows there.
PS: scraping aquatint works pretty good also. I used that mostly for backgrounds on my etchings and some detail shading.
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This is simply genius (both the idea and the implementation)!
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I love the face expression on the left. emotions are very visible, almost touchable. some kind of blurred person on the right side isn't so clear for interpretation, leaving for us a lot of space for debate about this piece of art. Who is he ? What is he doing ? Who stares at him and why ? Very multi-leveled artwork. Love it
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That's freaking amazing OMG
I didnt know about Mezzotint and now i have to kinda try out the clone brush also at KRITA rawrawrawrawrawrawrrrrrr
I love the smoking man who is reading :D Very cool !
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It is actually one of the few graphic techniques I haven't used. It is famous for its soft quality and beautiful black.
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Nice drawing... the effects is pretty cool and gives a haunting feeling. And I learn something new about mezzotint art, that is so interesting :D.
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That is one hell of a process. I have a special admiration for this kind of art. Engravings or printworks of this kind deserve tripple the votes :)
I just contemplate the details, the precision, the care in every step of the process. The preparation of the material alone is a work of art.
Congratulations. It was delightful to se you work your art. Absolutely astonishing.
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All the intaglio techniques are fantastic, but this one is really one of the most time consuming.
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It looks like a very difficult artwork with amazing results, love it! I had no idea about what mezzotint was. Thanks for sharing!
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Really really cool!!
I truly need to work with Photoshop again.. ^^
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I love this! It is always great to see unique techniques. As I sit and stare at it I see what you explained but also other stuff. I am sure most people will see something different within it. Which to me is exactly what art should be.
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Wow! That's so interesting! I've never heard about it. Beautiful! Congratulations for your experiment!
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