Emogene - photogravure print - The Weekly Edition

Emogene - photogravure print - The Weekly EditionI made this portrait of my daughter Emogene when she was 13 years old. She is wearing a dress that belonged to her great, great, Grandmother Emogene, I love the history that is represented in this portrait. I believe deeply in photographic portraits and the history they can portray, and I strive to honor the power inherent in portrait photography. This hand pulled photogravure print is made with Charbonnel carbon black, raw sepia, and warm sepia inks

My wife Kathleen had volunteered to chair the committee for the school auction this year and she received this bouquet of tulips as a thank you

To this end

with a dash of Charbonnel Sanguine ink on Awagami Okawara Pro Washi

8" x10" inches on an 15

The pictures in this series are my expression of the way we spoke that day

Susan and I learned photogravure printmaking together

I have never been in a position to visit them

and a dash of Sanguine inks on Hahnemühle copperplate paper

This polymer photogravure print is made on rives BFK paper and printed with Charbonnel intaglio inks by artist Ray Bidegain

This hand-pulled polymer photogravure print with chine collé by Ray Bidegain is in an edition of 10 numbered prints and 3 A/P prints

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

Change comes in many forms