The Art of Mitya:
Welcome to my website
Hello, my name is Mitya Sargeant and I am a digital artist. I hope you enjoy the journey with me as I explore my creative ideas using digital media. From a young age I was drawn to the arts as I watched my father painting with oils. In high school, art was one of my subject and brought me my highest marks on my Matric Certificate. I also attended dance classes which began in Primary School and took me to the Univercity of Cape Town where I studied Dance. From there a 10 year career followed as a professional dancer. However the painting didn’t stop and one day by surprise the moving figure emerged. This led to several exhibitions.
Above: Personified Landscape number 2 is a rich version of this theme.
Through all of this I used only traditional media as the computer and the internet were still foreign to most. Artistic software such as Coral Painter were at that time far away in the future. I purchased my first computer in 1998 and didn’t initially follow my artistic dreams as I went into the IT industry for the first few years of the new mellinium. Some time later, I began to explore the power of digital art and by 2015 my curriosity had evolved into a serrious interest, so much so that I made a conscious decesion to pursue my own art exploration by only using the digital medium.
Above: "The rhythm of life" has a powerful beat.
Software was rapidly developing and the ability to replicate a paint brush with a pen tablet or stylus grew in leaps and bounds. Soon after that I came to the conclusion that it didn’t matter what medium one was using, the outcome was still the same and much like any form of art be it dance, drama, oil, watercolour or acrylic or sculpture, mix media, it all leads to similar conclusions. The artist is trying to communicate something, to trigger an emotional response of some kind. Digital media may seem very powerful, but if you don’t know what you want to achieve with it or how to achieve by using it then you are just exploringing on a personal level. I can’t say that there is anything wrong with that but the art lover and buyer, will no doubt want more.
I love using Coral Painter. It has a lot of power and can simulate the traditional artist's brush. Working with digital has many advantages, one in particular is the variety of brushes and another is saving the journey which allows me the opportunity to go back and start another journey somewhere along the initial route to explore other options.
Are my art works for sale?
Yes, and this is another beauty of working digitally. They can be printed in various sizes and on various surfaces. Ranging from A4 to A0 and also from photographic paper, watercolour paper to canvas. High quality inks are required
