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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 →
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 →
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 →
Blue Horizon (Number 193104) copyright 2024 Douglas Stockdale – I was honored to have my seascape cyanotype Blue Horizon featured this past week on YourDailyPhotograph.com, which is a 11 x 14" image I printed on a 16 x 20" sheet of Bergger Cot 320. I have photographed this stretch of the San Clemente oceanscape on numerous occasions,... Continue Reading →
Entanglement, number 1766-4, copyright 2024 Douglas Stockdale - Towards the end of last year, I was trading emails with another alt-photo artist about my Photolucida Critical Mass 2023 and 2024 Finalist recognition. She had mentioned that she had four Critical Mass Finalist awards, while nothing higher (e.g. Top 50) seemed to occur for her, thus... Continue Reading →
Urban Ashes (number 0175), Airport Fire, September 2024 copyright 2025 Douglas Stockdale - When I started to print my multi-media monotypes, I soon realized that one visual aspect was missing for me; whites and highlights, especially somewhere in the midst of a field of color. So I had a couple of options; use some white... Continue Reading →
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