Oops, this was meant to be posted at chatatelier17.blogspot.com! Sorry for the typos that follow! I think you get the gist of what I write however! Looking at some of the smaller zinc and copper etched plates I brought back with me from August 1980 from France back to the United States, and so happy that I did! Some done at the atelier Calaevert Brun , Atelier 17 and Atelier 63!

Three different atelier in Paris, France where I etched from 1977-1980 starting at the traditional atelier of Caleavert Brun in 1977 , then the Atelier 17 at 10, rue Didot, 1978-79, then the Atelier 63 at 54, rue Daguerre in the 14th arrondisement. Here are the plates I photographed outdoors today, Tuesday, February 17, 2026 on our round table on our deck out back. The plates are all small but of different sizes. Often I would etch on both sides of the plate. In some cases the plastic sticky covering is on the back so that the acid couldnit come through and eat away at that surface. Sometimes I photographed the unetched surface for a display of the way it looked in age, I am happy for all the plates and was delighted to see my Beginner's plate done under the guidance of Stanley WilliammHayter was amongst the plates Zi brought back, conered in that sticky this plastic with a design on it to protect it frim the acid if I put it into the acid bath. The two men in the park is hete, so Re the smaller Uncle Mortvetchings, including also the two small beggar women plates as well as a drunk man pn the stairs outside of some building, a homeless lady in the metro sleeping on a bench with her head behind the trash can for some privacy, christ on the cross, two women hugging as a child looks on, many of the figures naked, and more. I did not include the ones done by ourvdUghter AbigIl that we did togethercT the atelier at the Lee Arts Center here in northern Virginia where i printed again many of these plates in different combinations. And there is a copper plate I was using the rocker on that is shiny and unprinted as of yet! And there is a small copper plate of a figurevdone by my fellow artist Pedro Ruis that I seem to have in my possesion and I know not why!?