In its original incarnation, cliché-verre (also called glass printing, or photographic etching) was a hybrid technique combining hand-drawing with printmaking and photography, but without using ink or camera. My picture above uses camera and computer, and ink too when it gets printed. It approximates the look of the earliest examples dating from about 1840. The archetypal works were made by allowing sunlight to pass through a negative image etched by the artist on a coated glass plate, then focused on photographic paper to produce the positive print. I have noticed these artists used many traditional landscape compositions with foregrounds, backgrounds, horizon lines, plus cloud detail. After much experimentation, I have yet to make this approach work. Eliminating horizon and sky — as shown in these two images — seems to me the best way to succeed aesthetically with this digital method.