Looking at one photograph at a time
Urban Ashes (#94853), Superior, CO, copyright 2022/2026 Douglas Stockdale - Still a work in progress; using pigment ink transfers on top of my early cyanotype prints to increase the tonal range with some black and dark values that I was not obtaining early in my cyanotype printing. I realized last month after using a pigment... Continue Reading →
Artichoke Thistle, Spring Transition, copyright 2026 Douglas Stockdale - At the end of September I had announced that one (or more) of pigment transfer prints had been selected for inclusion of The Hand magazine's issue #54, while I would not know which exactly until I received my copy of this issue. The magazine arrived while... Continue Reading →
Sea Palm II (Bandon Beach, Oregon) Multi-media monotype copyright 2026 Douglas Stockdale - Thinking about what I could use as potential implementation subjects of the pigment ink transfer process using inkAID film and solutions were the numerous early stage cyanotypes I had made in late 2024 and early 2025. At that time I was still... Continue Reading →
Urban Ashes (Superior, Colorado, Marshall Fire, 2022, no. 94853) 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 →
Earlier when I was discussing how to fix an inkAID transfer print, a question came up about 'fogging' a layer of matte varnish on top of my prints. Then another question about the spray booth I use to fog the matte varnish. So recently, courtesy of Ashley Furniture, I obtained a 'new' portable spray booth... Continue Reading →
Max Planck's Magic Glasses (#9995) copyright Douglas Stockdale 2026 - When I started to experiment with the inkAID pigment ink transfer process, my interest was in transferring high contrast black and white images onto rag paper that I had previously printed with intaglio inks. Wow. I had not realized all of the potential ins and... 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 →
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 (monotype version 1), copyright 2026 Douglas Stockdale - My intent with learning how to use the inkAID pigment ink transfer process was eventually to get to a point where I could combine this with my intaglio ink monotype process, as I had discussed here. Turns out that this was going to... Continue Reading →
