Blue Girl - photogravure print - The Weekly Edition

Blue Girl - photogravure print - The Weekly EditionBlue Girl A portrait of favorite model I have worked with over the years Hand pulled photogravure print is made with Charbonnel Noir 55981, Bistre, and Prussian Blue inks on Hahnemhle copperplate paper. I printed an edition of 6 numbered prints and 2 A P prints. Hand pulled print by Ray Bidegain Limited edition of 6 7"x 7" inches on an 11 x 15. 5" sheet. Signed numbered and titled by the artist on the lower front.

The next day I was printing this edition of photogravures

I came across this one in my flat file the other day

I worked its way for around a year before I tired of cutting 8x10 sheet film down in the dark

This is the first edition of broadsides from Cascabel Press

Charbonnel  bistre and sanguine inks on Hahnemühle copperplate paper

I have never been good at getting up really early to go outside and make photographs

This portrait was made in 2004 and today

Johns is the view from upstairs

with a dash of Charbonnel sanguine ink on Arches 88 paper

it is 4x5 inches on an 11x15 sheet

or work on taking photographs of any subject that interests you

I was drawn to the 'mascarons' or grotesque faces decorating the cornices and the lovey stone shapes of the arches