What is Photo Artistry?

Photo Artistry is a new art form, which combines photography with digital tools to create an image or rendering which is something more than the image itself. Most image capture devices today are digital. That makes it easy to use software tools to structure and transform an image with the author’s creative vision. It is a value added by digitization.
Here is an example.

The Watchful Eye
by Digital Artist Virginia Bacon

The repeated theme here emphasizes both the subject and diagonal angle of the image placement on the digital canvas. The result is a poignant and emotive artistic presentation.