I am really honored to announce that the recent article by Ann Mitchell on her blog Thinking About Photography is a wonderful trifecta for me. Mitchell's recent article focuses on Photographers who create artist books as part of their artistic practice. As you might notice in her cover photograph, above, she is including my artist... Continue Reading →
Artist Book Soft Launch Day
This morning I was off to the post office as the unofficial but perhaps official soft launch of my artist book, The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow. Which will probably make tomorrow's post office run Day 2 of the unofficial/official soft launch of my artist book. Yesterday while working on the packing and shipping... Continue Reading →
Artist book prep Sunday
Today is shipping prep day for what may turn out as an unofficial book launch tomorrow of my artist book, The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow. Regretfully I do not have any book signing events planned or exhibitions of the artwork. The books above were all pre-ordered in my lead-up to the publication of... Continue Reading →
Maybe a book-marker for the Artist Special Edition?
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Count Down
The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow, artist book copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – Final pre-order count down begins. Two weeks left to pre-order my artist book, The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow that investigate travel anxiety. Still time to snag one of these beauties, get a discounted price and see your name in the... Continue Reading →
Why pamphlet stitch an artist book?
For some reason this morning I had a bit of an aha! moment; that one thing that is not included in the Singular Images Press media kit for my artist book, The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow, is that as a pamphlet stitch binding would resulting in a lay-flat book. The relevance of any... Continue Reading →