Looking at one photograph at a time
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 →
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 →
Memory Pods: Dodho feature, June 2025 - Honored with a feature on Dodho for my Memory Pods series yesterday; a project that I had initiated over ten years ago when I was contemplating how I could metaphorically relate memory loss due to Alzheimer's Disease with the flowering phases of an Aloe Vera plant. To be... Continue Reading →
Sycamore, Spring, Trabuco Arroyo, copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale Earth Day is today! A great reminder to be aware of the environment and climate change. Nevertheless, as I state on my IG account and usually sign-off on my blog articles, we need to make every day an Earth Day, not just try to do be environmentally... Continue Reading →
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 →
Sea Palm I, Prismacolor over cyanotype, copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale - At the moment, I am waiting for the results of today's solar cyanotype printing to dry-down, as I find the final results for a cyanotype print are not fully revealed until the following day. Something about that dry-down process. This is going to be... Continue Reading →
Sea Palm I, #1 in a series of 5 (solar Cyanotype), copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale - As I started down the road of cyanotype printing, I have concurrently been reading a lot of articles related to the number of prints an artist might want to consider for a limited edition of that artwork. This print... Continue Reading →
* When I made my very first cyanotype print, it was a botanical contact print before I had acquired by contact printing frame, as I was intending to make a switch-up to using digital inter-negatives instead of a direct contact with my subject. I will admit that as I considered what other series to print... Continue Reading →
Trabuco Creek, October copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – A little botanical zen composition that I saw during my morning walk today...nice moment to watch the water flow past this point. This was a follow-up canyon wilderness walk that I completed late last week. Post surgery and able to actually walk down into the adjacent O'Neill wilderness... Continue Reading →
