...yesterday afternoon we went to the Members reception at the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) for the mulitimedia installation by Coa Fei. She is a young cinama/director from the Bejing art community and her installation was interesting. Maybe even more for me as she is working on an industrial subject not much unlike what I was working on... Continue Reading →
It’s the process..
Fading Memories (from the series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) ...Mark commented today about the potential impact of reworking the tonal qualities of my series Bad Trip - Sad Trip as being a "nightmare". He was not aware of how true that statement was! After the realization of what I was going to have to do,... Continue Reading →
ArtBiz101 – Business Plan
Night Watch (from series: Insomnia: Hotel Noir) ...this is the third article on my series of developing an artistic business. Business plans have been written extensively about, as a written and detailed business plan is what most new companies take to the bank or key investors to get their start-up money. People who invest their money want... Continue Reading →
PS C3 Digital “Toning”
...I had received a request from Julie in the comments to an earlier blog post about what I found regarding the image toning options I have with the new PSC3 program. Without doing any checking, I thought that I just still had the one option of using a Hue/Saturation adjustment level as I had with... Continue Reading →
No Longer Paradise
No Longer Paradise (From the Series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) ...I am re-posting this photograph from my series,which is one that had I made in Hawaii, but the first time I posted it, I had a strong diffusion effect on the foreground. One of the few images that the diffusion effect seemed to work with the photograph.... What I am... Continue Reading →
Melancholy Series?
Hope (from the Series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) ...being visually oriented, words are the hard part for me, becasue otherwise I would be a writer, eh?. For those who have been following my writing about my series Bad Trip - Sad Trip, you are should be vary familiar with my struggle with the words... Continue Reading →
PS C3 less concerns
Worm Holes #4 ....okay, prehaps I should not have been so gloomy before I actually loaded CS3....These are going to be my immediate first impressions. First, thinking about the need for only 1 G HD for the program, I quickly realized that if I can now read my Canon RAW files directly, then I do... Continue Reading →
PS C3 concerns
Worm Holes #3 ...I just received my Photoshop CS3 upgrade and it is a good news - bad news situation for me. The good news is all of the new upgrade features in CS3 from CS that I am using now. I am looking forward to putting into my workflow; a RAW converter that will read my... Continue Reading →
Folk Art Sculpture
Death Scar, copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale ...this picture that I made in Hawaii was a during my transition for the In Passing (Bad Trip -Sad Trip) project, from "what Doug saw" to what this series suggests. I think that this image better illustrates what first attracted my to begin this series. Most certainly one factor is the context... Continue Reading →
ArtBiz101 – Business/Art Strategy
Reflection (from the Series: Insomnia: Hotel Noir) ...There has been a ton written about Business Strategy, most of which applies equally to a small business (us as artists) as the big corporations. I have found one gem on Business Strategy that has been been the greatest help and there are three basics parts to what is... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 