Looking at one photograph at a time
Sea Palm I, solar cyanotype with Prismacolor pencil copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale - At the beginning of the year, I had decided to hand color one of my Sea Palm I solar cyanotype prints. Which at the time, I had thought was a one-time event. Apparently not. LoL. When I was experimenting with hand coating... Continue Reading →
Paris, New Snow, December 2010 (solar cyanotype) copyright Douglas Stockdale - When I was writing about my solar cyanotype stray cats and singular images, the photograph above is another which is not related to any specific project or series, but which I recall vividly. I first published a color version of this photograph back in... Continue Reading →
California Sycamore, Spring 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - At the moment I have a bunch of things going on; working on a new cyanotype printing process which I hope to discuss in early April (still need a few more sunny days for solar cyanotype printing), continuing my walks in the adjacent wilderness park (wonderful combination... Continue Reading →
Trees, Evening, Warsaw, Indiana, copyright 2005/2023 (solar cyanotype) Douglas Stockdale - I am in the midst of an interesting transition. When I started this art/photo blog 16 years ago it was meant to help promote and hopefully obtain some feedback on my artwork (and of course, sell some prints), which was primarily featuring my 'singular... Continue Reading →
Wo Zhi KanKan (I am just looking), (JiaShan, January 2008 #2829) 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - When I had decided to experiment with Cyanotypes last October as an alternative photographic process, I wanted to test the waters with a very minimum investment in equipment, facilities and processes. Especially since I was considering Cyanotypes as the... Continue Reading →
Sycamore, Spring, Trabuco Arroyo 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - Another study of a 'lazy' Sycamore tree found in the adjacent Trabuco Arroyo, part of the O'Neill Wilderness park. I find these trees fascinating with the complex layering resulting from how the large limbs droop to the ground, which then extend further outward each spring. Also... Continue Reading →
Please clean up after your pet copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale - After writing an article yesterday about Eugene Atget's 'reference pictures' related to Parc Saint-Cloud, while on my morning walk adjacent to the O'Neill Wilderness Park, I was anticipating a couple of locations and compositions that might capitalize on my ideas of creating my own... Continue Reading →
Parc Saint-Cloud, Vase and Staircase copyright 2010 Douglas Stockdale - I am back thinking about Eugene Atget again while re-examining the photographs I made over two days some 10+ years ago while walking Parc Saint-Cloud. As I had wrote previously about these two days, I had been doing my best to think about the photographs... Continue Reading →
Untitled ( #021923) copyright Douglas Stockdale 2023 - I have started experimenting with a pigment ink transfer process to create some interesting and probably best described as abstract artwork. Looking at the final print, above, it would be difficult to know what the photographic subject was that I was stating with as it has little... Continue Reading →
Terry, Indiana Route 30 (In Passing: Lest I Forget #2108) solar cyanotype + Prismacolor pencil, copyright 2007/2023 Douglas Stockdale – This is the fourth of five of my In Passing: Lest I Forget series that I have printed as a cyanotype and subsequently hand-colored with Prismacolor pencils. At the moment, my immediate goal for my cyanotypes is to... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 