Mezzotint. How Many Proofs?

I seem to be managing with less proofs now than I used to. Some prints took around 20 or more stage proofs before the final image. Especially the larger portrait mezzotints, like “Girl by the Window”, “Mother and Child” and “Alina’s Faces”. The smaller and less detailed mezzotints were finished with 4-7 proofs. I put together […]

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Mezzotint meditation

If someone told me even couple of years ago, that art for them is meditation, I wouldn’t get that. For me art is a struggle. It requires pushing oneself. Yet now I discovered, that mezzotint is a meditation for me. Yesterday I over-stimulated myself socially (in fact a couple of days in a row I […]

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