Special Artist Edition (Book + print), The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow 2022 Douglas Stockdale I am excited to announce that the San Telmo Museo, located in San Sebastian, Spain, will be acquiring one of the Artist Special Editions of my book to add to their permanent book collection. Cool! I had suspected that this edition was... Continue Reading →
Special Artists Edition going to Frick Fine Arts Library’s permanent collection
Special Artist Edition (Book + print), The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow 2022 Douglas Stockdale I am very honored today that the Frick Fine Arts Library at the University of Pittsburgh is acquiring one of the Special Artist Editions of my artist book The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow. This will join my... Continue Reading →
Pre-press: Hard proof color check
The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow - proof check 2022 copyright Douglas Stockdale – It gets pretty exciting during the publication of a new book to receive the first set of hard proofs from a printer at the later stages of the pre-press activities. It is also when the reality of what will soon be... Continue Reading →
Meanings of Liu Guan Lue Yin
My artist book, The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow, is one step closer to be published and in the midst of the pre-press activities for the center section of the book. Interestingly, while in the mode of making some very detailed commercial printing decisions, such as do we want to use a PMS color... Continue Reading →
Medium Photo 2022 Festival – postscript
The Lafayette Hotel & Medium Photo event copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale At the beginning of this month, I, along with a ton of others, had an opportunity to actually meet in person, catch up on stuff we have been doing during the pandemic, see actual artwork, networking and of course maybe a little bit of art/photo... Continue Reading →
Mental Health Awareness Month
The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow copyright 2006 Douglas Stockdale – This is Mental Health Awareness Month and good time for a shout-out that if you are feeling out of emotional sorts, then this could be a sign that there might be something you need to find out more about. The four basic mental health awareness concerns... Continue Reading →
Litho Printer’s mock-up Surprise
The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow (Artist book mock-up) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – When working with a commercial printer on a book or really any publication, requesting a mock-up that reflects your quote, printing paper and book design intentions is pretty common. I can also say it might be one of the more uninteresting aspects of... Continue Reading →
Modifying a piercing cradle for pamphlet stitching
For the artist book I now envision (book pre-visualization!), I want to bind it with a very simple, but elegant pamphlet stitch. Assembled and bound it should look like what I posted in my last article. And there are a numerous ways to complete a pamphlet stitch and a relatively simple production fixture, called a... Continue Reading →
Artist book-dummy making progress
The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow (book-dummy) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – A quick status report on my book-dummy for The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow , which appears to be slowly making some good progress. I seem to be heading towards a small edition artist book, perhaps in conjunction with a book + print... Continue Reading →
The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow
Chester, UK (The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow) copyright 2012 Douglas Stockdale - I have not provided very many updates recently about my book-dummy for The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow, that investigates (my) separation anxiety as it relates to travel. A bit unusual for me. Let's just say that this book-dummy has... Continue Reading →