SUMMARY 2021
2021 was a creative year in spite of the
Covid 19 pandemic lockdown
The best things I did during 2021 were:
- AI (artificial intelligence) -- Alter my drawings further with more AI software (culminating in AI HOLOGRAMS)
- 3D -- Draw in 3D on the laptop (Public Domain downloadable 3D files)
- Tortilla Press -- Made 8 x 8 inch prints with the Tortilla Press (pioneered by Tres Gatos Press of Guadalajara).
- Plus AR (augmented reality), online collaborations and other Odd Projects
YouTube Summaries
These YouTube playlists and videos below showcase most of what I did in 2021:
FIVE VIDEOS of my Best Figures of 2021
ALL 45 of my VIDEOS from 2021
Having bought a hacked Tortilla Press from Joseph Velasquez, we started printing on the streets of New Mexico in August. We appropriated the idea from TRES GATOS PRESS, after printing with them on the streets of Guadalajara in 2019.
TORTILLA PRESS PRINTING
This momentum morphed into the BUCKET EXHIBITIONS approach -- of showing framed 8 x 8 inch prints in hit-and-run pop-up exhibitions (at smaller venues than Ambos Lados):
Tuesday Night Drawing Group Movie
Perhaps the best thing about 2021 was that the Santa Fe drawing group met on Zoom every Tuesday night, right through the Covid 19 pandemic, continuing the group that Eli Levin founded in 1969. John Tollett made a YouTube movie from the work of all the artists this year (including mine):
Tuesday Night Drawing flyer
Tuesday Night Drawing -- The Movie
3D Gallery
ODD PROJECTS
I also pushed into other directions, which I listed on my ODD PROJECTS summary posting, including revisiting AR (Augmented Reality) and online collaborative drawing, as noted in the two images below:
2021 Summary Posts
- AI Art in 2021 (VQGAN+CLIP, Deep Dream Generator, ArtBreeder, text-to-image, etc...)
- Odd Projects (AR/augmented reality, online collaborative drawing, FIVER, DADA NYC, Monster Mash, Abraham AI, vacuum forming, etc...)
THE BEST
BEST DRAWINGS 2021
BEST AI FIGURES
BEST 3D FIGURES
CLOUD PEOPLE
BEST VQGAN ART
ENHANCED AND ENLARGED IMAGES
Ready for Printing
3D Files for Download
I posted several of my 3D figure drawings for download (mostly in GLB format) for anyone to do as they please with them. They are in the Public Domain.
IN DEPTH
Review Postings
Click on the images below to link to a more in depth post:
I continued to push my figures through any AI program that I found online. My favorite was the AI style transfer program Deep Dream Generator, at least until I found a bunch of VQGAN+CLIP programs since July 2021.
Computer Art by Other People
- George Redhawk
- Adam Martinakis
- Museum of Other Realities
- Great list of American painters
- Michael Murphy
- Gastaloops by Nicola Gastaldi -- nice red compilation of short animations
- Funny Loop Animations -- I especially like "Geometric Walk Cycle by Aslan Almukhambetov for Fireart Studio"
- Choi Xooang -- Korean sculptor
- Can Pekdemir -- Artist from Istanbul
- Gul Bruvel -- Australian/French/American artist
- SJ Paik -- Korean jewelry artist
- Rico Eastman -- who did the big sculpture at Lomas and 1st in Albuquerque -- Centric Shear
- Fletcher Benton -- sculptor from San Francisco
- Tony Craig -- English abstract sculptor
- Flandez Hernandez-- abstract sculptor from Florida
- Kevin Mack -- 3D printed abstract sculptures
- Bruce Beasley -- using AutoDesk 3D programs to make physical abstract sculpture (Wikipedia entry)
- VickyM72 -- abstract Blender art
- Niklas Lundberg -- Swedish digital artist
- Midge "Mantissa" Sinnaeve -- animation loops
- George Redhawk -- GIF animations
- This sculptural AI reminds me of the animations of Esteban Diacono and Extraweg
OTHER YEARS IN REVIEW
