Looking at one photograph at a time
Just a quick update on yesterday's article regarding my attempts to find the Dmax (maximum 'black' or dark) for my cyanotype paper with my new acidified water development process. Looking at my 13 minute exposure (Gray card reading 14-2/3), I had thought I had reached the Dmax for the paper/processing combo, except when the print... Continue Reading →
Tis the Season to wish everyone a Happy Holiday and the very Best for the New Year! It does not get any more complex that. Which also means a bit of anxiety to create the annual holiday card, which being a bit old school that I print, trim and mail to family and friends. Yes,... Continue Reading →
____ Last year at this time, I was just starting out on the development of my Anthropogenic Crisis series. I was then and still am today, extremely concerned about the steadily increasing climate (heating) changes. Thus my inspiration to work on a series that might imagine what our landscape and climate might look like sometime... Continue Reading →
I have not posted very much since the clouds and rain rolled into Southern California as I have been experimenting a lot with solar printing and Cyanotype printing. For me at the moment, cloudy days exclude the ability to do some 'quality' solar printing. For the Cyanotype printing, I had hoped to avoid the need... Continue Reading →
Wonderful Thanksgiving holiday weekend surprise being featured on Lenscratch. I was interviewed by Kassandra Eller in regard to the publication of my artist book, The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow. The interview can be found here. I believe that this is the fourth time I have been featured on Lenscratch, so a big shout-out... Continue Reading →
I am still plagued by being a science-nerd which is kinda of cool when my sense of curiosity overlaps my artistic instincts. Something that I have yet to read about regarding alternative photography processes involving contact printing using solar power to create the artwork (e.g. cyanotypes) is how to evaluate one's solar light intensity? Here... Continue Reading →
* When I made my very first cyanotype print, it was a botanical contact print before I had acquired by contact printing frame, as I was intending to make a switch-up to using digital inter-negatives instead of a direct contact with my subject. I will admit that as I considered what other series to print... Continue Reading →
This is my second cyanotype using a digital negative and the second in a series of surfing photographs, Surf-Rider II. Which is all good for my learning curve for this interesting alternative photographic printing process. While using watercolors to augment my first of this series, Surf-Rider I, it was obvious to me that in this... Continue Reading →
Surf-Rider I (2017), watercolor over Cyanotype, copyright Douglas Stockdale 2022 - This is now my final version using watercolor paint and watercolor pencils over my Surf-Rider I cyanotype. As I posted previously with the addition of the Magenta and Yellow, the last potential paint color to add will be a 'black' to complete the CMYK... Continue Reading →
Yesterday I discussed some transparent yellow options in my quest to create a pseudo four-color gum version for my new cyanotypes series. In retrospect, I missed a couple of other transparent yellows in my watercolor kit to evaluate; Yellow Ochre and Sepia. So more about those other yellows at another time after I have had... Continue Reading →
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