Looking at one photograph at a time
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 give... 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 be... 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 was... Continue Reading →
___ The LandMark: Landscapes Reimagined photographic exhibition is now hanging at the OC Camera Gallery (Laguna Hills, California), and I am really excited to have my print as the featured announcement photograph for the exhibition (below). I had planned on the ‘Winter Thistles‘ print to be 24″ x 50″ wide, while Rudy Vega surprised me... Continue Reading →
I am honored to be curated into the LandMark: Landscapes Reimagined photographic exhibition at OC Camera Gallery (Laguna Hills, California), and really excited to have my print as the featured announcement photograph for the exhibition (below). The 'Winter Thistles' print is 24" x 50" wide. Should look pretty cool. The exhibition opens next week, August... Continue Reading →
With recent events I have not been updating my art-blog as frequently as I have in the past. sigh. Thus a little bit of catching up to do as it relates to my alternative photography that has been featured in The Hand magazine over the past year. I will start with the most recent The... Continue Reading →
Entanglement, number 1766-4, copyright 2024 Douglas Stockdale - Towards the end of last year, I was trading emails with another alt-photo artist about my Photolucida Critical Mass 2023 and 2024 Finalist recognition. She had mentioned that she had four Critical Mass Finalist awards, while nothing higher (e.g. Top 50) seemed to occur for her, thus... Continue Reading →
2025 Copyright Douglas Stockdale - I have always been fascinated by the form and shape of trees in the winter after they shed their leaves, leaving bear the underlying structure. For many years I have also thought that this might make a nice portfolio series, while my photographs might not be all that unique, as... Continue Reading →
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 →
Urban Ashes, multi-media monotypes, copyright 2024 Douglas Stockdale - Wow, for the second consecutive issue of The Hand magazine, I have a full page feature of my artwork submissions. Last issue #46 featured my cyanotypes I made from photographs from my assignment in China in 2008, while for issue #47 (above), a bit different subject... Continue Reading →
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