Looking at one photograph at a time
Sea Palm I (Bandon, OR) copyright 2024 Douglas Stockdale - Wishing everyone a wonderful Prussian Blue Day for World Cyanotype Day 2026. Theme: GLOBAL BLUEPRINT – People, Place, and Environment. I choose a mix of place and environment for my cyanotype print. Sea Palm I is a unique hand-colored classic cyanotype print. Cheers! Doug
The Hand (magazine), Issue 54, Fall 2026 - Honored to have at least one or more of my recent pigment ink transfer prints featured in The Hand, issue 54. Their marketing and promotional practice is to first announce the artists who will be featured (but not their artwork), then later you obtain your copy of... Continue Reading →
Urban Ashes (Superior, Colorado, Marshall Fire, 2022, no. 92550) Copyright 2026 Douglas Stockdale - Once I started to experiment with the pigment ink transfer process with inkAID film and transfer solutions, I began to anticipate how I might use this transfer printing process with my earlier alternative photographic artwork, such as my cyanotypes and initial... Continue Reading →
Domesticated Landscape, 2026 copyright Douglas Stockdale - I am having a little fun with what could be considered some "non-serious" alternative photography; thermal print cameras, aka 'kids' camera. This all stated with being invited to be part of the Mute Photo Festival as one of the four jurors, then deciding I need to know what... Continue Reading →
Pink Thistle copyright 2026 Douglas Stockdale - When I began working on my pigment ink transfer process using inkAID, the multi-media monotype above is what I was pre-visualizing. Layering a pigment ink transfer over an acrylic or intaglio ink (or in this case, both) printed sheet. After layering on the pigment ink transfer over the... Continue Reading →
Max Planck's Magic Glasses #3 (Art & Science) copyright 2026 Douglas Stockdale - While learning how to use the inkAID pigment ink transfer process, I had a number of opportunities to gain another skill set; how to patch and fix a messed up transfer print. I liken it to my darkroom printing days when at the end... Continue Reading →
Making a transition from using small (8x11-1/2") inkAID transfer film to the slightly larger (13x19") film size exposed how finicky and some of the underlying issues are with using the inkAID transfer process. The fact that my early small pigment ink transfers were completed in the Spring and the larger pigment ink transfers were made... Continue Reading →
Jurors for first Mute Photo Exhibition - I am honored to be one of four jurors selected for the first International Mute Photo Festival, which will include an exhibition and a catalog. The other jurors include Ioli Taznetaki (@iolitzan), Apostolis Giannokopoulous (@giannakopoulosap ) and Shuchi Kapoor (@girlinthegalli). What makes this opportunity very interesting is that... Continue Reading →
Artichoke Thistle, Spring Transition (monotype version 3), copyright 2026 Douglas Stockdale - Earlier this year I started working on a process of incorporating pigment ink transfers (inkAID) with my unique intaglio ink monotypes (prints). Regretfully, my first attempts at combing these two were not all that great, while I was learning a few things that might... Continue Reading →
Artichoke Thistle, Spring Transition, copyright 2026 Douglas Stockdale - While doing a few social media posts on Facebook in various groups about my multimedia monotypes, I had a couple of individuals in an alt-photo/printmaking group suggest that if my underlying black and white was a printed via traditional inkjet printing, then what I was creating... Continue Reading →
