Still-life with Flowers | etching and aquatint

Still-life with Flowers | etching and aquatintAs I am learning to draw one big part of the journey is choosing what to make. Still life and been a genre that I have been attracted to with my photography practice so it feels good to me to continue working with these ideas. Hand pulled print is made on a copper plate etched with my drawing and aquatinted. . Charbonnel Noir 5598, Bistre, and Sanguine inks on Hahnemhle copperplate paper. Hand pulled print by Ray Bidegain Open edition 5'x8"" inches on

relief prints made by carving into sheets of linoleum

From a few years ago

This day I brought a few down to the studio and began making negatives

A recent nude

The Chapel at Château de Beynac

The book will be an ambitious project for me and one I am excited about

Making self portraits has become important for me for a handful of reasons

Cranfield burnt umber ink on Hahnemühle copperplate paper

and dated by the artist on the lower front

I am a person who collects things with the idea I might want to use them in a picture someday

I feel differently about some of them than I did shortly after making the picture

If you are feeling more ambitious then we can work together to print a larger image with more type