I moved on from Atelier 17 45 years ago and moved into other forms of expressing myself in my own way and on my own terms since then in my art. Now I am back, fully invested as I put all my energies into my art, making it constantly and also looking to place it in the world in places and ways that I hope will touch those that chose to beI eve in me.

What an amazing path and journey this all is, my coming to fully understand that art, making it , not being bought or scripted by others for their own fame and monetary gain, as well as position in society, off my work, off my art. I have always been my worst enemy as I do not believe anyone has to own my art to be somebody. I would love for people to own my art because they are touched by it on some personal level of theirs, and not for profit or to brag or please others, society in particular.

I amna dreamer! I call this etching that has dried now, and that I am still working on , calling it " Freedom of choice, choice of art " It was me stepping away from my indecision or simply state of not knowing. I am excited as I have to decide with this print that is now mixed media on top of dark bright green intaglio.

My etching entitled “ Freedom of choice / choice of art “ printed in 1978 at the Atelier 17 of Stanley William Hayter I have been reworking for the last month off-and-on and today Friday, March 13, 2026 I continued

The wind is sounding outside like blows strong, concentrated, powerful. In this sunny breezy blowing whooshing raw wind I work once again on my etching I printed in 1978 at the Atelier 17 called " Freedom of choice / choice of art ", printed in deep forrest green intaglio, later just recently in February I added water colors, and then used the rocker on the surface, too. Today I journeyed to the store Michaels to but some linseed oil to dilute my black etchers's ink I purchased many blue moons ago from the store Utrecht. I just mixed the two together and applied them to this print I made on Arches paper and it is drying now. I took pictures and made a couple of pictures that I will add here now. For the earlier pictures adding wTer olors and rocker stroll down here on my Atelier17 blogspot. Cheers, sante, we will see where this all goes.
Anthony Alan Quinn, Friday, March 13, 2026, 4:29pm here now.

Now I add the videos. will continue this etching and bring it into today's period in time! Tony Jyst added some orange tempura and then aome blue acrylic both watered dow and seying now!

I joined @CristinaPiceda in opening our @Atelier76PicedaQuinn at 67 rue Maurice Ripoche in the 14th arrondisement in 1978 and we invited other artists to join us when the Atelier 17 and the Atelier were closed so we could continue in our artistic journeys and share in commaderie and share experiences and ideas! Carol Field came so did Mansour Ibrahim and Etelvina and more

Here are some pictures there from that time, these two are in front on the street in front of Atelier 76! I have watercolors and drawings, too that I did there to include here soon. On one occasion , le 17 Juillet, 1978 , jeudi soir nous etions @CristinaPiceda , @AnthonyQuinn , @MansourIbrahim , @CarolField, @Etelvina @Girard et @JoseGuadalupePosada. My ink and watercor I said : " ... a d I've got the apple of temptation, and a fiamond snake around my arm. Or was that Jose?!?! The ink snd watercolo with the yrllow background color of two figures was done by me that Thursday afternoon. I will include more drawings done there later. rediscovering my past and loving it! One picture is with me snd Cristina Piceda from Buenos Aires that had the idea to tent this space. The other picture is with my friend John Towsmanfrom New York that was not an etcher but living in Paris at the same time. I believe he came to buy some art of mine for his family.

From my green sketchbook at the time , my drawing and my page of writing , some mine and some from Doystoyevsky.

While I have been downloading and preparing this I have been listening to Georges Brassens - " j'ai rendezvous avec vous, je m'en fou ! "

Just brought this photo of @HidekoSeki and @Etelvina and

Also Etelvin with Miguel as he prints!

I just found four pictures working in both Atelier 17 ( the pne with Cristina Piceda on the left, Mansour Ibrahim in the center - lifting his print of the plate on the press bed, and me on the right with my back to the camera turning around, the @Atelier17 of @stanleyWilliamHayter ), and three at @JoelleServe her @Atelier63

WOW! What a great discovery just now! I know there will be more to be made, but this excites me no end! One picture from the Atelier 17 of , left to right - @CristinaPiceda, @MansourIbrahim, and me @AnthonyQuinn on the right. 1978 or 1979? 10, rue Didot, 75014, Paris, France

Three pictures I took at @JoelleServe @Atelier63 as one of the two assistant managers to Joelle Serve at 54 rue Daguerre, 75014 , Paris, France with Elizabeth in a blue work shirt seated on the left and looking at me, and also Helen and Julie, as well as someone else, AND in another photo Elizabeth is standing on the left with an etching in her left hand looking over at the lady blond lady crouching over and working on her plate, and another etcher, a man wetting his paper to print on, I believe, too. In the third photo with a view from the front of Atelier 63 looking down the room at both Helen and Julie and another lady. The light coming in on the left from the courtyard there. One of my favorite memories is visiting Cristina Piceda that lived upstairs in that building on the right, and listening to @BillyJoel sing " Just the way you are " as I waited for Cristina to join me! SO glad I have these pictures!

There are three pictures here, the one above if of the Atelier 63, the other tpw are of @CristinaPiced and @MariaValecillo - both that etched with Bill Hayter at the Atelier17, and here we are in 1995 dining together in a restaurant in Buenos Aires speaking French while all around us at the other tables both English and Spanish could be heard as well as our French - all at really high decibles!

MORE to come as I find them! Stay tuned! Vamos a ver, on verra, si - oui! TONY 3/7/2026 happy samedi ici chez Quinn's One of my plates in the serues of my Uncle Mort and hus passing that I kwarned about tgen and was incredibly moved by.

I just found my negatives of the pictures I mostly took with a couple of exceptions at Atelier 17 inside and outside with pictures of so many of us including Bill Hayter, Krishna Reddy, Han, And more early morning either 1978 or 1979, I will check

There was much conversation mongst us that were etching and printing at Atelier 17 and I bought a disposable camera and used it to take pictures of all of us with Bill Hayter. I m thabkful that we all wanted to document this time, and I developed the prints and gave copies to a number of fellow artists. I will make better prints now with these negatives as this is an important piece of histody at Atelier 17. Here are pictueres of these negatives that Ibrediscovered this late morning, Friday, February 27, 2026. Merci tous! Quel belle souvenir pour nous! Anthony Alan Quinn 2/27/2027 8:46pm now ici chez moi en Virginie dubBird!

Just added cadmium bright white watercolor to my etchings I am reworking like oil or acrylics in their purest most unadulterated form with water being an addition but not so watered down the white! Let it dry next to the yellow watercolor just added earlier to see what red?!? 2/22/2026 happy Sunday now as it starts to snow 3:01pm February 22, 2026

Enjoy the purity and strength and intensitu shedn shine glow glee glad cadmium white unwatered much next to the yellow watercolor I added earlier?! Pictures and videos to follow. Happy weekend now Sunday agternoon chez Quinn's puzzle building and watercoloring and just walked our dog before the sniw!

a wirk in progress letging it lead me where it mat! Mixed media -old and new! Tony 2/22/2026 3:16pm