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.
