Looking at one photograph at a time
San Clemente beach, copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale - So an interesting thing happened while I was at the Beach working on a fun brainless photo project; while composing a photograph of two individuals reading their books, a young lady walked by and I caught the guy noticing her. He was sitting a bit back further... Continue Reading →
A very pleasant surprise this morning from Jörg Colberg who included a discussion of my artist book, The Flow of light Brushes the Shadow, along with two other publishers, Craig Atkinson’s Café Royal Books (UK) and my buddy Clint Woodside's Deadbeat Club Press (also Southern California) in his article The Unassuming Photobook on his photoblog Conscientious... Continue Reading →
Book-marker, T/P, Artist Special Edition, The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow, 2022 Douglas Stockdale - Opps, I ordered too much of the Awagami Murakumo Kozo Select paper for my print overlay that I recently discussed. I had not realized that paper was sized for A4, thus I ordered two packs to ensure that I... Continue Reading →
California Monsoon, Anthropogenic Crisis #8289 copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale - It is really convenient when Mother Nature brings a monsoon storm right to your back yard and provides me with an opportunity to work on one of my many projects, Anthropogenic Crisis. This is my ongoing investigation of the continuing climate crisis and a series... Continue Reading →
PhotoBook Journal; artist book review Wow, I was really blown away by the review of my artist book by Rudy Vega that was published yesterday on PhotoBook Journal. His introduction: In The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow, Douglas Stockdale has produced an artist book which sets out to visually articulate his anxiety felt as a... Continue Reading →
Anthropogenic Crisis #065425 copyright 2021 Douglas Stockdale – In between printing the interior pages of my new artist book, I have a pdf open regarding the basics of gum bichromate printing that I read while the printer hums along. In thinking about the gum printing, I was initially intrigued with the process of printing an initial platinum-palladium... Continue Reading →
Chop (stamp): Liu Guan Lue Yin - The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow - Douglas Stockdale - Liu Guan Lue Yin; this is the chop (stamp) mark for the Chinese Mandarin phrase of The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow. My favorite of the two chops that I had carved in Shanghai after hearing... Continue Reading →
Text block, The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow, copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – With a successful pre-publication fund raising campaign takes me to the next step on my publication journey for this artist book; delivery of the lithographic offset color printing of the interior text block from AZ Litho in Tucson Arizona. Very cool!! That's... Continue Reading →
Drop Area (Gardening for Ordnance) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – One of the nice things about a holiday is a time for self-reflection, which I had an opportunity to have this past week while visiting my son in Oregon. And visiting various wineries to sample their vintage products probably helped as well. I suspect that one of... Continue Reading →
Litho interior text block and Printers sample copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – My next artist book is an interesting meld of commercial printing and personal printing that when assembled will create a hybrid artist book. Part of this book will be hand-made (cover and one interior page spread) while incorporating aspects of commercial printing; what I consider... Continue Reading →
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