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Anthropogenic Crisis: The Last Iceberg - copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale - I just love submission deadlines; these just seem to inspire me to actually get something done. LoL. In this case, it's a submission deadline for a singular project to Lenscratch by January 6th. And at the moment, I have more than one artist project... Continue Reading →
The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow - copyright Douglas Stockdale At the end of the year, I think it is both a healthy and great way to end one year and indirectly prepare for the next with a recap of the year's accomplishments. So a really quick overview of what has happened in 2022,... Continue Reading →
Image copyright 2012/2022 Douglas Stockdale - While I continue to tweak my cyanotype printing process concurrent with the overcast and rainy days we are having now in Southern California for the coming week (non-solar printing conditions!), I have time to consider how I want to proceed. Although a digital faux cyanotype is not meant to... 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 →
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