Looking at one photograph at a time
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Wow. I knew that Southeast Center of Photography (SEC4P) was about to announce our next book development workshop together and that they wanted to post this on their social media first before I started my social media PR. I just did not expect that it would be sold-out in less than fours hours from the... Continue Reading →
The Chaos We are In, (#4058) copyright 2021 Douglas Stockdale - This is my third reflection on how I implement my Photo (Artistic) Creativity and probably the one that I have mentioned most often in my past articles; allowing myself to 'Experiment/Play'. Aka, it's okay to mess around and have some fun. Others may not... Continue Reading →
During this pandemic I started a series that is pretty much based on creating abstract images. Which is actually not that new for me. When I made a transition from photography to painting in the mid-1980's and to gain some understanding of the various mediums, my artwork was pretty representational. When you looked at my... Continue Reading →
My experimentation/play series of organic abstraction during the COVID-19 pandemic has also included some printing evaluations using dye sublimation printing process on clear base aluminum. I have been working with three west-coast California print labs on this printing project and they all have a slight variation on what to call this process and medium such as HD Metal,... Continue Reading →
A quick shout-out about my discovery of purple fringe and what to do about controlling it, which is not to be confused with the song Purple Rain. Although humming Purple Rain while working on this digital manifestation I find does seem to help reduce stress. As a black and white film photographer who has incorporated digital color... Continue Reading →
