Hi Art! You were my professor at Wesleyan college! You told me I was suffering from “ masterpiece syndrome “, lol! You were absolutely the best teacher and I enjoyed learning from you!!! I’m a plein air painter now…..I had a terrible injury and I’m still trying to cope with that. Love what you are doing…amazing! I live in Taos , New Mexico…..
Lorraine; Thank you so much for your kind comments. It sounds like I was pretty rude to say you were suffering from “masterpiece syndrome” but I guess I should know, because I suffer from the same aspirations and sense of grandeur. I am so sorry to hear of your injury but inspired by your plain air painting. I would love to see some of them. I also find inspiration in working from the landscape, plain air drawing. All my best wishes to you and yours. New Mexico is wonderful!
Art, I appreciate the clear, concise way you present the whole Mezzotint process. Informative and accessible. Me and my students have benefitted from your work and presentation. Thank you very much.
Thanks for the information. I recently bought a mezzotint and read that the artist generally worked about 500 hours on a piece of art. Now I understand how and why!
I just wanted to say I’m in awe here. I started watching the video just for curiosity, as I have never heard of mezzotint and wanted to understand what it is and how it is done, and was amazed by the whole process. I wonder how long it takes you do complete a piece like this one? It is so detailed and intricate. Beautiful work! 🫶
This one took about 6 months and I have spent as much as a year one one 24” x 36” mezzotint. But I also have done many small ones on a one-a-day schedule. Over 500 total…so far.
Thank you! I do work on pre-rocked plates made in London. They are very good and my elbows can no longer take all the abuse of rocking large plates. I also do a lot of aquatint. When making aquatints, I try to achieve all of my values through the stage biting process. I prefer not to rework (scrape and burnish) the aquatint at all. Check out my video artwergeraquatint to see the stage biting process
I bought a lot of mezzotint rockers second hand Lyons and Serak). Most of them in very good / perfect condition. One rocker however is missing some teeth on both sides of the row. Can I do something about this myself? BTW, I bought a mezzotint you made in 2020 "Anima-Animus" in the Epreuve d'Artiste gallery in Antwerp.
