Wednesday, January 14, 2026
All about discovering oneself and having your space to do so unfettered and bound, tied, talked and advised out of - none of those applied - I was free as a bird off the wire to do as I did, and did I did soulfully, mostly all culled from my imagination!
i drew mostly from my imaginatiob, ferling it iut as I worked my gabd over the surface if paper as I so often worked from sketches as these that I did at the Atelier 17 that i will share gere now on January 14, 2026 on a cool gray winter's day at 12:58 pm as i start to disnliad the pictures and tge video I just made from my #DessinJBervis546 yellow notebook I took around with ne in Paris, dated samedi ke 2 Juin 1979 where Iived in Paris, France at the time 93 Avenue Paul Doumer, 8ieme etage chambre #20 16 arrondisement, with a Mansart roof and a windiw, across from the Turkush toilet!
my two videos I just made, Tony
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Had a great conversation with Cristina Weyl today about Atelier 17 , Gail Singer, Krishna Reddy, Eric Schmid, Hector Ssunier, Juan, Madame Paulette, Bruce Dunnet, Pauline Binns, Akemi Noguchi, both New York and all the women that etched there, Paris, Joelle Serve and her Atelier 63 on the Rue Daguerre, and the old man I remember on the street that would always announce : “ Beeeeeel Highterrerrr, le pluuuuuuuus graahhhhhhdddd graveur du monde!”
so much winderfulness as I take picture now slmost fifty years later of my etchings I did in Paris , France!
I started etching with Calvert Brun a traditional French etcher, then will Bill Hayter at his Atelier 17, then meeting Joelle Serve a French lady that had etched at the Atelier 17 at 10 Rue Didot, before opening her own etching Atelier on the Rue Daguerre, also in the 14th arrondisement where I became her twaching assistant working for her when she was not there.
Great times and I look firward to continuing my conversations with Caroline as she plans the hundred ywar anniversay of Atrlier 17!
Wow! Anthony Alan Quinn happy Monday Janyary 13, 2026 now
Monday, January 12, 2026
I learned a lot, I observed others and I pushed myself and my experiments were wide , bold, outrageous and satisfying as I challenged myself in an environment that left me free to do exactly as I pleased with little judgement or interference of any kind, thanks, that’s invaluable! Priceless really ! 1978-89.
experimenting, observing, doing, letting myself delve deep into myself and issues that captivated, fascinated, disturbed, motivated me to tespond boldly, mightily! Anthony Alan Quinn
happy early Tuesday morning now, January 13, 2026 12:35am as I type here now!
Working at the Atelier 17 from 1978-79 was the experience of a lifetime!
I loved working at the Atelier 17 from 1978-1979! Very stimulating time of my life, really very productive!
Great experience, great memories, great atmosphere to fly solo like a bird off the wire, in my etching burin, engraving, mezzotint, burin, roller and oils and printing inks and viscosity and thumb and finger prints attire!
Some of my early prints as I was learning tgat I did working in @WilliamStanleyHayter @Atelier17 with @HectorSaunier and Juan and Bill Hayter himself that started the whole experience off doing the small plate with textures and forms and lines to give the illusion od 3-D perspective of depth. I still have the drawinf that Bill did to illustrate this thatcI have included here in an earlier post. Check it out.
Anthony Alan Quinn
happy Monday January 12,2026
3:05pm as I start this and add some of these earlier prints I made and phitographed outdoors earlier today.
Enjoy
this etching artist proof is titled : Freedom of Choice , Choice of Art,nChoice of Freedom
this etching artist proof is titled : Taken with the grun tu molani " a reference to the novel by Saul Bellow " Henderson the rain king ".
more still to cone! Tony
My ctual zinc plate that I used to make the experimental plate with a 3-D effect desired under the direction of Bill Hayter.
It has that protective sticky backed plastic over it now to protect if from the acis bath as I used the other side to make another etching,
Added on Wednesday, February 18, 2026 just now at 5:30pm. Tony
The other etching is scraped into the green protective layer to reveal the zinc surface and two figures walking, one being carried dragged along by the other. Enjoy!
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