Thursday, 31 January 2019

Thursday, 24 January 2019

January 22, 2019

Drawn in the Argos Gallery of Santa Fe:

Evening:




Altered with Deep Dream Generator






























Ambos Lados International Print Exchange print

This is my print submission for the Ambos Lados International Print Exchange, organized between El Paso and Oaxaca.




This is a laser assisted intaglio print, using an image from my book (drawing 150).

Thursday, 17 January 2019

January 16, 2019

Drawn at 3rd Street Arts in Albuquerque:





Update (May 29):  I've been experimenting with online artificial intelligence programs, and colored and altered the above drawing in Google's DEEP DREAM GENERATOR (using a photo of this spaghetti monster accident, made on the 3D printer material at QueLab hackerspace in Albuquerque, as a style reference).  The result was too extreme however, so I blended the original jpg above, with the altered Deep Dream image, in Photoshop (with "opacity in the layers window) and came up with the more restrained, and pleasing, image below.


blended with the original image
as a transparent overlay in Photoshop
(On Instagram)


Then I enhanced the resolution with another online artificial intelligence program -- Let's Enhance -- to 2560 x 2048 pixels, in order to print the result larger.  That file can be downloaded:

This was the "style image"


This is the raw enhancement
before I blended it with the original drawing




John Tollett had a different idea on how to alter this drawing -- I applied the watercolor action script, then applied the built-in Photoshop filters “cutout" and “watercolor,” then “cutout” again, then “unsharp mask."

John Tollett's version


In a saloon somewhere,
behind the bar



It looks a lot better in the bar, than in a hackerspace somewhere: