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 →
Featured on One Twelve today
The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow, pages 38 - 39, Copyright Douglas Stockdale – I am honored to be featured on One Twelve today with an interview by Diane Nicholette Jeon in a wonderful discussion about my new artist book, The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow. She states "Stockdale takes us along with him... Continue Reading →
SoCal Monsoon
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 →
Artist Special Edition ink chop (stamp) resolved
The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow - Liu Guan Lue Yin chop - 2022 Douglas Stockdale - Bad news, Great news. For the Bad News, this past week I have been struggling with how I might incorporate my Chinese chop (stamp) into my Artist Special Edition. To be able to bring together the underlying... Continue Reading →
Book review on PhotoBook Journal
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 →
Cyanotype versus Prussian Blue gum print
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 →
More details for the Artist Special Edition
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 →
SDSU Library acquiring Artist Special Edition
Fiuggi, Italy, Nightscape (The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow) copyright Douglas Stockdale - Good News for a Friday; San Diego State University (SDSU) Library is acquiring one of my Artist Special Editions of The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow for the Library's Special Collections. A trifecta of permanent collections for this artist book, an artist... Continue Reading →
AZ Litho book parts delivered
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 →
Contemplating Gum Bichromate printing
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 →