Soon, more new Art work from me

After finally passing all exams of my final year of Master studies, will post the latest of my work. Didn't have much time adding my stuff but soon I hope that u will have a pleasant surprise. Finishing my preparations for my first stand alone exhibition will allow me to then promote my new stuff that I didn't wanted to show before this event. There gonna be more Aquatint graphic techniques like the pic above so, stay tuned .. ;)


Aquatint
This technique is so called because its finished prints often resemble watercolors or wash drawings. It is a favorite method of printmakers to achieve a wide range of tonal values. The technique consists of exposing the plate to acid through a layer (or sometimes succesive layers) of resin or sugar. The acid bites the plate only in the spaces between the resin particles, achieving a finely and evenly pitted surface that yields broad areas of tone when the grains are washed off and the plate is inked and printed. A great many tones can be achieved on a single plate by exposing different areas to different acid concentrations or different exposure times. Aquatint techniques are generally used in combination with etching or engraving to achieve linear definition. Aquatint was little favored by etchers until Francisco Goya used it to such great effect in his celebrated edition of 80 etchings entitled "Los Caprichos." After Goya the technique was used extensively by Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro.
In sugar aquatint, also called "sugar lift," the artist uses a sugar-ink mixture to draw with pen or pencil on a surface treated with resin. When dry the drawing is covered with a layer of varnish and when dry introduced into a hot-water bath which exposes the drawing in the resin. The plate is then bitten in the acid bath and the resulting print has a soft, painterly look.

A painting about good and the evil

By Max Meinzold ( maxmade@hotmail.de )

“Traveler” by Mary Qian

Master and apprentice painting

Da Vinci's study of an angel

You can't miss that this is Da Vinci's work. All those lines that  make him one and only, are just one of the things that u can always be sure that this is another master piece of his

How many time this happened to you? This is how it looks like freezed :)

Detail of Lucan portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, showing damage to the eye.

Vintage Star Wars art poster

An example when photography looks like its made in the etching technique

Etching

Etching is a method of making prints from a metal plate, usually copper or zinc, which has been bitten with acid. The plate is first coated with an acid-resistant substance (etching ground or varnish) through which the design is drawn with a sharp tool (burin or other). The acid eats the plate through the exposed lines; the more time the plate is left in the acid, the coarser the lines. When the plate is inked and its surface rubbed clean, and it is covered with paper and passed under a cylindrical press, the ink captured in the lines is transferred to the paper.

The first etching on record was that of the Swiss artist, Urs Graf, who printed from iron plates. Albrecht Dürer, though a consummate engraver, made only five etchings, and never really dominated the technique. That was left to later artists like the Italian Parmigianino and, of course, Rembrandt, perhaps the greatest etcher of all time... Later adepts of acid etching were Tiepolo and Canaletto in Italy and, of course, Francisco Goya in Spain. The 20th century saw important bodies of work by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall and Georges Rouault.

Stunning art in the Montreal Science Centre from April 19

These posters come to life when you look at the amazing detail in the creation of each image