Looking at one photograph at a time
Sea Palm II (Bandon Beach, Oregon) Multi-media monotype copyright 2026 Douglas Stockdale - Thinking about what I could use as potential implementation subjects of the pigment ink transfer process using inkAID film and solutions were the numerous early stage cyanotypes I had made in late 2024 and early 2025. At that time I was still... Continue Reading →
Sea Palm I (Bandon, OR) copyright 2024 Douglas Stockdale - Wishing everyone a wonderful Prussian Blue Day for World Cyanotype Day 2026. Theme: GLOBAL BLUEPRINT – People, Place, and Environment. I choose a mix of place and environment for my cyanotype print. Sea Palm I is a unique hand-colored classic cyanotype print. Cheers! Doug
The Hand (magazine), Issue 54, Fall 2026 - Honored to have at least one or more of my recent pigment ink transfer prints featured in The Hand, issue 54. Their marketing and promotional practice is to first announce the artists who will be featured (but not their artwork), then later you obtain your copy of... Continue Reading →
Earlier when I was discussing how to fix an inkAID transfer print, a question came up about 'fogging' a layer of matte varnish on top of my prints. Then another question about the spray booth I use to fog the matte varnish. So recently, courtesy of Ashley Furniture, I obtained a 'new' portable spray booth... 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 honored 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... 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... 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... 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... 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 →
