A pair of passe partout for a client and fellow daguerriean, white line with a black border and gold pigment line on a white border

One of the joys of the home office is getting parcels. Usually its art supplies with a catalogue thrown in which makes for a good read. This morning though it was a fed ex box from a european client with two broken stereo cover glasses to be reproduced and a book about his collection. The [...]

Recently I made a reverse painted passe partout in the faux tortoishell style for the sixth plate of my glassware.

It took me two years to work out my technique for the reverse painting on glass for daguerreian passe partout. It began in NYC in 2001 and finally when living in a small village in England in 2003 I worked out a rather elegant solution to solve the main issues; – a sharp paint edge [...]

December down under in New Zealand means lots of sun, more than I estimated for the exposure of these two plates but they still make fine records of the season, a patient mother and mother in law. Ninth plate daguerreotypes in passe partout.

The latest plate in a reverse painted passe partout and now listed in the online store

This plate is from the same scene as the Pataka stereo but is on a larger format – (third plate – 3.75 x 4.25″). Now available in the online store.