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Max Planck's Magic Glasses #3 (Art & Science) copyright 2026 Douglas Stockdale While learning how to use the inkAID pigment ink transfer process, I had a number of opportunities to gain another skill set; how to patch and fix a messed up transfer print. I liken it to my darkroom printing days when at the end of... Continue Reading →
Making a transition from using small (8x11-1/2") inkAID transfer film to the slightly larger (13x19") film size exposed how finicky and some of the underlying issues are with using the inkAID transfer process. The fact that my early small pigment ink transfers were completed in the Spring and the larger pigment ink transfers were made... Continue Reading →
Jurors for first Mute Photo Exhibition I am going to be one of four jurors selected for the first International Mute Photo Festival, which will include an exhibition and a catalog. The other jurors include Ioli Taznetaki (@iolitzan), Apostolis Giannokopoulous (@giannakopoulosap ) and Shuchi Kapoor (@girlinthegalli). What makes this opportunity very interesting is that this... Continue Reading →
Singular Images Press on IG (2022 - 2026) Another course correction. When I was about to self-publish my artist book 'The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow' in 2022 before my two surgeries, I had this 'brilliant' idea that having self-published five other books, I ought to be publishing my latest artist book under my... Continue Reading →
Artichoke Thistle, Spring Transition (monotype version 3), copyright 2026 Douglas Stockdale Earlier this year I started working on a process of incorporating pigment ink transfers (inkAID) with my unique intaglio ink monotypes (prints). Regretfully, my first attempts at combing these two were not all that great, while I was learning a few things that might give... Continue Reading →
Artichoke Thistle, Spring Transition (monotype version 1), copyright 2026 Douglas Stockdale My intent with learning how to use the inkAID pigment ink transfer process was eventually to get to a point where I could combine this with my intaglio ink monotype process, as I had discussed here. Turns out that this was going to be... Continue Reading →
Artichoke Thistle, Spring Transition, copyright 2026 Douglas Stockdale While doing a few social media posts on Facebook in various groups about my multimedia monotypes, I had a couple of individuals in an alt-photo/printmaking group suggest that if my underlying black and white was a printed via traditional inkjet printing, then what I was creating was... Continue Reading →
___ The LandMark: Landscapes Reimagined photographic exhibition is now hanging at the OC Camera Gallery (Laguna Hills, California), and I am really excited to have my print as the featured announcement photograph for the exhibition (below). I had planned on the ‘Winter Thistles‘ print to be 24″ x 50″ wide, while Rudy Vega surprised me... Continue Reading →
I am honored to be curated into the LandMark: Landscapes Reimagined photographic exhibition at OC Camera Gallery (Laguna Hills, California), and really excited to have my print as the featured announcement photograph for the exhibition (below). The 'Winter Thistles' print is 24" x 50" wide. Should look pretty cool. The exhibition opens next week, August... Continue Reading →
With recent events I have not been updating my art-blog as frequently as I have in the past. sigh. Thus a little bit of catching up to do as it relates to my alternative photography that has been featured in The Hand magazine over the past year. I will start with the most recent The... Continue Reading →
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