Looking at one photograph at a time
Sunny days; cyanotype printing weather! And I continue to learn a little bit more about the Cyanotype printing process, in this case, deviling deeper into the weeds regarding the making of a digital negative for contact printing. When I recently obtained Christina Anderson's book on Gum Printing, this book purchase was about obtaining more information... Continue Reading →
What a nice surprise this morning as I was greeted by Voyage LA Magazine's feature of my and my artist book, The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow. Of course I knew that this article about my artist book was going to be published as a result of their interview, it's just that I can... Continue Reading →
I am still plagued by being a science-nerd which is kinda of cool when my sense of curiosity overlaps my artistic instincts. Something that I have yet to read about regarding alternative photography processes involving contact printing using solar power to create the artwork (e.g. cyanotypes) is how to evaluate one's solar light intensity? Here... Continue Reading →
* When I made my very first cyanotype print, it was a botanical contact print before I had acquired by contact printing frame, as I was intending to make a switch-up to using digital inter-negatives instead of a direct contact with my subject. I will admit that as I considered what other series to print... Continue Reading →
This is my second cyanotype using a digital negative and the second in a series of surfing photographs, Surf-Rider II. Which is all good for my learning curve for this interesting alternative photographic printing process. While using watercolors to augment my first of this series, Surf-Rider I, it was obvious to me that in this... Continue Reading →
Surf-Rider I (2017), watercolor over Cyanotype, copyright Douglas Stockdale 2022 - This is now my final version using watercolor paint and watercolor pencils over my Surf-Rider I cyanotype. As I posted previously with the addition of the Magenta and Yellow, the last potential paint color to add will be a 'black' to complete the CMYK... Continue Reading →
Yesterday I discussed some transparent yellow options in my quest to create a pseudo four-color gum version for my new cyanotypes series. In retrospect, I missed a couple of other transparent yellows in my watercolor kit to evaluate; Yellow Ochre and Sepia. So more about those other yellows at another time after I have had... Continue Reading →
One of the aspects of alternative photography when using Cyanotypes is the potential for layering on additional colors using a Gum Bichromate contact printing process. This requires multiple digital negatives, getting these negatives into exact registration when printing each color (and if you don't: Opps!), a lot more chemistry and coating paper in conjunction with... Continue Reading →
I have been experimenting with 'solar' printing as an investigation into what is broadly termed 'alternative photography', which is essentially the photographic printing methods of the mid to late 1800's. Versus experimenting with A.I. (Alternative Reality), the latest controversial art creation methodology (what I think of as the 2022 version of the controversy of using... Continue Reading →
As I had mentioned in my last post, in mid-October my son Chad and his wonderful girlfriend Marnie tied the marriage knot in a destination wedding at Bandon on the coast of Oregon. As you might imagine, a bit more of an unconventional ceremony overlooking the Pacific Ocean which was a beautiful event. We were... Continue Reading →
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