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Untitled (Entanglement series) 2024 copyright Douglas Stockdale – After summarizing some of my 2024 accomplishments, sort of as a new years resolution, is looking ahead to some goals for 2025. Probably what is resonating with me right now is from a recent exchange with David Marsh that what we are working on now is Art Therapy, in as... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Entanglement series) 2024 copyright Douglas Stockdale – As I have for many years, a look back on my accomplishments in 2024. I mentioned that this was a healthy task for creatives in my last end of year update for 2023. Likewise, I will probably post my 2025 goals next week, as I did here for 2024. I... Continue Reading →
2024 Season’s Greetings (Mammoth Mountain, CA) copyright 2024 Douglas Stockdale – Tis the season for the Holiday card for the 2024 Season's Greetings! As like last year, I decided it would be fun to hand embroidery another pigment print, while this year I chose a winter landscape photograph from a 2004 ski trip to Mammoth Mountain. As... Continue Reading →
Overdue for an update. Back in April I wrote an article about how I might combine coffee toning with my cyanotype prints for my Urban Ashes project. The thinking was that the Prussian blue cyanotype print color did not entirely resonate with this particular project's narrative for me and I wanted to make this subject... Continue Reading →
All photographs are 2024 copyright Douglas Stockdale – On Monday, September 9th, I was just finishing a business conference call when my wife yelled up at me that there was a fire in Trabuco Canyon, here in Orange County (OC). To let you know, that's about 4 to 5 miles from our home. First bottom photo below... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Entanglement series) 2024 copyright Douglas Stockdale – I am really excited that I was selected as a 2024 Critical Mass Finalist, as one of the 200 individuals chosen to move to the next step of judging process. This is also the second consecutive time that I have been selected as a Critical Mass Finalist, and both have... Continue Reading →
Blue Horizon No. 193104, cyanotype, 2024 copyright Douglas Stockdale – The last couple of months have been an artistic challenge for my cyanotype printing as well as life in general. Losing a friend who appeared to be well on the way to recovery is difficult. It keeps the other set backs in one's artistic life in... Continue Reading →
Wayne Swanson, portrait by Donna Cosentino • With the recent passing of my friend and PhotoBook Journal colleague, Wayne Swanson (1951 - 2024), I realized that I wanted to write and publish a memoriam about him to share in our on-line magazine. First was the shock of his passing, while he had been in and out... Continue Reading →
Entanglement: Transformation 0356-4-8, copyright 2023/2024 Douglas Stockdale – My practice of utilizing a print weave of my cyanotypes continues to be a a creative journey. When I began the weave methodology earlier this year, my practice was pretty straight forward as to the weaving process that resulted in a uniform mosaic pattern. Since I was just starting... Continue Reading →
Last Iceberg (No. 9200) copyright 2022/2024 Douglas Stockdale – With today's solar eclipse and the 'focus' on our sun (and its effects, which is why a ton of individuals have purchased special solar eclipse glasses), a good time to provide a PSA (Public Service Reminder). Global warming of our blue planet is not due to any changes in... Continue Reading →
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