About The Site

This site's Conceptual section represents what was once my "artsite". Now significantly changed, it was first published on the web in 1997/98. Initially built to evoke a more maze-like experience than an ordinary web site. After meandering its wings and hallways, a visitor could leave wondering how many corners had been left undiscovered. The initial concept for the artsite was that it should be a pure visual experience, the idea being that just as my visual art stands as its own statement, so this visual art site would be complete with images only and no text. Some years and many redesigns later I now enjoy the visual experience of text. In this spirit I have designed the navigation and art writings on my revamped site with a calligraphic font that pairs its artistic form with functional legibility.

I have preserved some elements of my original artsite in this site's Conceptual art section mainly for sentimental reasons. Most but not all the content can be found in more accessible forms elsewhere on the site, namely the Works section which is my portfolio, library or electronic gallery containing hundreds of my pieces. While I enjoyed the excitement and mystery of navigating through a site with no direction, its complexity made it hard to keep current and even harder to maintain as a significant repository of work. Though my new site may be less warm and less artistically designed, I believe the standardized design now it does a better job of not detracting from its main purpose of presenting the work. I hope you will forgive the lack of warmth as you are able to more easily view the work that the sits is here to present.

The site map is a good way to get adjusted to the architecture of the site, and it helps to reinforce that the Works section is at the center of the site as a library of my work.

Those who visit the Works section regularly will see that it is constantly growing, and due to its being easy to update it may now contain paintings that are within days or sometimes hours of being finished. The nature of the Works section and its large size means that it can sometimes be slower than the non dynamic areas of the site, but I hope that the functionality that this interactive image inventory offers, makes this a worthwhile tradeoff.

The pieces on the home page are displayed at random. Drawn and refreshed once each minute from among hundreds, so waiting a minute and refreshing the page will show you different work, try it a few times while you form an opinion.

This site uses standardized font families with one exception, sunwalk fontworks freeware Sigmund (TrueType) font. Download it as a ZIP file or a TTF file.

To Send Images As Postcards: When viewing full-size images, click the "Send As A Postcard" link at the bottom of the page. To save/download images from the Works section of this site: When viewing images in the Works section, click the link under each of the images you want to save, the button will change from to    , this adds the selected images to your unique Collection (the images you add to your collection will be remembered for all your future visits to visits to the site). When you have selected all the images you want to save, click the "Collection" button in the upper right, this will display all the images you have added to your Collection. From here you can download full sized versions of all the images in your Collection, compressed into a single Zip format file, by clicking the "ZIP" button . Finally uncompress/extract the Jpeg images out of the Zip file using a Zip utility like PKZIP(Windows/Unix) or ZipIt(Mac). You can also email your collection or play it as a slide show. – Vote for the subject you think Misha should paint – Vote in other art related polls... – View Top Rated Paintings – Sign the Guest Book – View the Site Map – Favorite Quotes – Related Links – Contact – Donate to Misha Bittleston's art		To Review the Paintings (Click "Review" under full-size images)