Looking at one photograph at a time
Urban Ashes (number 0175), Airport Fire, September 2024 copyright 2025 Douglas Stockdale - When I started to print my multi-media monotypes, I soon realized that one visual aspect was missing for me; whites and highlights, especially somewhere in the midst of a field of color. So I had a couple of options; use some white... Continue Reading →
Overdue for an update. Back in April I wrote an article about how I might combine coffee toning with my cyanotype prints for my Urban Ashes project. The thinking was that the Prussian blue cyanotype print color did not entirely resonate with this particular project's narrative for me and I wanted to make this subject... Continue Reading →
All photographs are 2024 copyright Douglas Stockdale – On Monday, September 9th, I was just finishing a business conference call when my wife yelled up at me that there was a fire in Trabuco Canyon, here in Orange County (OC). To let you know, that's about 4 to 5 miles from our home. First bottom photo below... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Marshall Fire: Aftermath Ashes #6560) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – This is my third post (here and here) related to the Marshall fire that occurred two years ago in Boulder Colorado. Maybe this is not the most uplifting subject to end the year with, while perhaps the most realistic regarding the times we live in. This was... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Marshall Fire: Aftermath Ashes #6238) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – It was exactly two years ago to the day that the communities in Boulder County, Colorado, experienced an end of the year event in 2021 that is becoming eerily too common; severe drought coupled with hurricane-force winds and one spark too many. What was the environmental lead-up... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Marshall Fire Aftermath #094853) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – Two years ago communities in Boulder County, Colorado, experienced an end of the year event in 2021 that is becoming eerily too common; severe drought coupled with hurricane-force winds and one spark too many. Lasting two days over 1,100+ homes and business were totally destroyed. The... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Last Iceberg series, #101325 version #2) copyright 2014/2023 Douglas Stockdale – When I started to consider how I might increase the visual presence of my Last Iceberg series, one of the first thoughts that came to mind was what-if these Last Icebergs could provide us with an distress message as to what the full extent of... Continue Reading →
Untitled (The Last Iceberg series, #9200 Solo Voyage) copyright 2022/2023 Douglas Stockdale – Last week I wrote an article about working with a back-stitch on one of my Entanglement cyanotypes and how I came up with an idea of how to potentially represent the barb's along the barbwire fences. Which then led me to consider other alternatives to... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Last Iceberg series, #101325) copyright 2014/2023 Douglas Stockdale - Necessity is the mother of invention, which recently for me meant learning another embroidery design trick that I can incorporate into my cyanotype prints; the back-stitch. First came the concept that I was attempting to investigate. Up to now I have been using what I... Continue Reading →
Anthropogenic Crisis: The Last Iceberg - copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale - I just love submission deadlines; these just seem to inspire me to actually get something done. LoL. In this case, it's a submission deadline for a singular project to Lenscratch by January 6th. And at the moment, I have more than one artist project... Continue Reading →
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