Sycamore, Spring, Trabuco Arroyo 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - Another study of a 'lazy' Sycamore tree found in the adjacent Trabuco Arroyo, part of the O'Neill Wilderness park. I find these trees fascinating with the complex layering resulting from how the large limbs droop to the ground, which then extend further outward each spring. Also... Continue Reading →
Pigment ink transfer print
Untitled ( #021923) copyright Douglas Stockdale 2023 - I have started experimenting with a pigment ink transfer process to create some interesting and probably best described as abstract artwork. Looking at the final print, above, it would be difficult to know what the photographic subject was that I was stating with as it has little... Continue Reading →
Terry – a winter roadside memorial on Indiana Route 30
Terry, Indiana Route 30 (In Passing: Lest I Forget #2108) solar cyanotype + Prismacolor pencil, copyright 2007/2023 Douglas Stockdale – This is the fourth of five of my In Passing: Lest I Forget series that I have printed as a cyanotype and subsequently hand-colored with Prismacolor pencils. At the moment, my immediate goal for my cyanotypes is to... Continue Reading →
In Passing: Lest I Forget
‘Randy‘ Nevada Route 157 (In Passing: Lest I Forget #1954) solar cyanotype + Prismacolor pencil, copyright 2007/2023 Douglas Stockdale – While writing about my earlier series of roadside memorials, I recalled that I had yet another name for this series, Lest I Forget, which is written on one of the memorials I found while driving in Nevada. I... Continue Reading →
In Passing – Cyanotype prints
'Forlon' Texas Highway 46 (In Passing: Lest I Forget #002) solar cyanotype + Prismacolor pencil, copyright 2006/2023 Douglas Stockdale - With the development and interest in printing cyanotypes, part of my new dilemma was what to print with this intriguing method? Obvious answer; what not to print?? On my short list was my earlier series... Continue Reading →
Keeping Art rejections in perspective
Abandoned, NV Route 157 (Roadside Remembrance #1937), solar Cyanotype + Prismacolor, copyright 2012 Douglas Stockdale – Perhaps as many artist and photographers do, I will enter calls for art, aka juried art exhibitions, to see if I can obtain some additional interest in my artwork. Most recently, I have been started to submit my recent cyanotype prints... Continue Reading →
IG @beach.lifestyle.art
Surf-Rider II, Cyanotype, copyright 2012 Douglas Stockdale – Yesterday I wrote that I had worked all of the bugs out of my solar cyanotype printing process and that might ALMOST be the whole truth. That solar cyanotype that I featured was very much on the darker side, a ton of stuff going on in the shadows. After... Continue Reading →
Cyanotype + Prismacolor Pencils
Sea Palm I, Prismacolor over cyanotype, copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale - At the moment, I am waiting for the results of today's solar cyanotype printing to dry-down, as I find the final results for a cyanotype print are not fully revealed until the following day. Something about that dry-down process. This is going to be... Continue Reading →
Contemplating Portraits
Ella copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale One of the interesting outcomes from publishing my artist book The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadows is a renewed interest in creating portraits. This artist book includes a series of staged self-portraits and some photographs of others who could represent me and others in the process of transitioning. A... Continue Reading →
Rethinking the number in a print edition or series – downward
Sea Palm I, #1 in a series of 5 (solar Cyanotype), copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale - As I started down the road of cyanotype printing, I have concurrently been reading a lot of articles related to the number of prints an artist might want to consider for a limited edition of that artwork. This print... Continue Reading →