I thought this video by David Pascoe of Nawakum Press of me making a mezzotint might make the technique clearer for collectors who wonder why mezzotints often cost more, aren’t produced faster and in greater numbers, etc. The video was made to accompany the artist’s book A Kerosene Beauty, with the poet Jane Hirshfield.
Mezzotint by Holly Downing from Nawakum Press on Vimeo.