When I got out of bed in 2022, it turned out to be a big year:
I made many blog summaries below -- highlighted in red -- focused on the different areas I made progress in, such as Drawing, AI Art, Printmaking etc...
I dropped in on the figure drawing sessions wherever I went, and posted those drawings on this blog:
- 2022 Best ABSTRACT Figure Drawings
- 2022 Best Drawings -- Part 1
- 2022 Best Drawings -- Part 2
- 2022 Best INK Drawings -- Part 1
- 2022 Best INK Drawings -- Part 2
My anchor drawing group is the Thursday night drawing session at North Fourth Art Center in Albuquerque. I have also continued drawing on online with the Tuesday Night Life Drawing group of Santa Fe, since March 24, 2020, when the Covid lockdowns started.
AI Art (artificial intelligence art) really blew up in 2022.
AI is now generating FAKE Krrrl figure drawings:
The AI Art programs became available to the general public in the second half of 2022 -- I got access to DALL-E 2 on August 18th -- and signed up for Midjourney later that month. I had always been using Deep Dream Generator, but they added a Stable Diffusion "text-to-image" feature on September 29th. Photo Booth by Open Art was launched on November 22, and in December it was generating fake figure drawings in my style. Before the year was over, POINT E came out in December -- a "text-to-3D" program. I could barely keep up:
AI image into a hologram:
AI image into AR (Augmented Reality):
I created a 3D figure in Monster Mash,
and ported it into <model viewer>
to make an AR tapir,
floating about at Quelab
I made some, but slower progress in 2022 with Holograms -- on the Looking Glass Portrait display -- and AR (Augmented Reality):
Printmaking started off with our Ambos Lados exhibition at the Outpost Performance Space in Albuquerque, and the momentum continued on through the end of the year with the BUCKET EXHIBITIONS shows and pop-ups. I handed out a lot of 6x6 inch linoleum squares to other artists, and printed them hit-and-run style on the Tortilla Press whenever anyone handed them back:
- PRINTMAKING 2022
- Printmaking Paranda (making prints in 2022)
We had a big AMBOS LADOS exhibition, and a lot of BUCKET PRINTS exhibitions in 2022:
My YouTube Playlists:
PREVIOUS MONTHLY SUMMARIES:
- Summary -- 3rd quarter 2022
- October Summary -- focus on AI Art
- November 2022 Summary -- Overwhelmed by AI Art
SUMMARIES on other BLOGS
Also note the 2022 summaries I made on the following blogs:
- I discovered that my Maestria thesis was posted online
HIGHLIGHTS 2022
CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
- BORDER ART: Under the bridge linking El Paso to Ciudad Juarez, Jorge "Yorch" Perez painted a mural on the south bank of the Rio Grande:
(was based on a print edition he made for me in 2017)
- MANCHESTER JAZZ FESTIVAL: Mark Hanslip employed a 2020 model trained on the drawings in my book to create a jazz video for the Manchester Jazz Festival 2022 in the UK:
- MENTAL MENUDO: I attempt to explain something of my attitude towards figure drawing, how I eschew contour lines, with the blog post --The Art of Ambiguous Lines:
- We discussed "Precognitive Dreams" during the Santa Fe drawing group on February 15, 2022
- SEMINAL EXHIBITION: The Albuquerque Museum put an exhibition around the printmakers of Tamarind and New Mexico -- Printer's Proof: Artists and Printer Collaborations -- curated by Josie Lopez, and assisted by Lacey Chrisco:
- LIVE ONCE AGAIN: The Tuesday Night Life Drawing started again in person on February 22, 2022, at the new Argos Studio/Gallery space in Santa Fe. The Zoom sessions continued online, making it a hybrid drawing session for the rest of the year:
- CELBRITY SIGHTINGS: During the Marco Sanchez opening at Casa Ortiz in Socorro, Texas, I spotted the Dos Federicos together -- Don Federico and El Federico:
- LIVE PRINTMAKING: Rich and I printed live on the Tortilla Press during the Grand Opening of Hecho Gallery in Santa Fe on April 1st, 2022:
- JOHN PAUL GUTIERREZ (Instagram -- Art on the Rio) had a exhibition at OT Circus during the First Friday ABQ Art Walk in downtown Albuquerque on April 7, 2022:
- John Paul Gutierrez also participated in the December online UK Illustrated Championships on Twitch (44 seconds).
- Full session (starting at 25 minutes, 29 seconds)
- On April 18th, 2022 the Covid mask mandate ended.
- MY COLLABORATION PRINT with Henry Morales -- for the Miradas sobre la Ninez portfolio -- was exhibited in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico at MAPECO from April 30 - June 15, 2022:
- BUCKET EXHIBITION: Tim gave us a great boost when he asked us to exhibit the framed 8x8 inch prints that we had been making during the Thursday night drawing group at the North Fourth Art Center in Albuquerque:
- NFT: I minted my first NFT (and later sold it to Holly Grimm):
- SKATEBOARD PRESS: Robert Atkinson made a Skateboard Press for me at Quelab, and Ethan made the first print with it at the Quelab table in the ABQ Rail Yards Market on May 15th, 2022. I had laser engraved into the linoleum plate with the Laserpecket 2:
- SUE TILLEY: We drew one of Lucien Freud's models online as she was posing for portrait in London on May 21st, 2022:
- 8x8 SHOW: I brought some framed 8x8 inch prints down to El Paso for the 8x8 show that Manuel Guerra organized at the "Alameda Art and Salvage" gallery, on May 28, 29, 30, 2022:
- DESERT TADPOLES: I am always amazed at how tadpoles sprout up in the standing water after a monsoon storm, in what usually is the desert -- such as these that thrived behind Quelab in Albuquerque in June, 2022, until the pond dried up (before they became New Mexico Spadefoot Toads):
- DRY RIVER: The Rio Grande dried up by my house in Albuquerque. I made a video on July 24th, 2022:
- LIBRARY EXHIBITION: We hung 18 prints at the Los Griegos Branch Library in Albuquerque, done by Albuquerque artists, most of whom attended the North Fourth Art Center drawing group on Thursdays. The show ran August 16th until the end of September, 2022. Thanks to Tim and Nicholas Newlin:
- AI ART: My life ended when I got DALL-E 2 on August 18, 2022, as the AI Art programs kept getting better and better right until the end of the year:
- AI GALLERY: My piece was altered by AI so much that it isn't recognizable as my drawing, in a gallery created by AI:
- MAYA STYLE: I applied a Maya style to my drawings using the old style transfer feature of Deep Dream Generator:
- SCULPTURE GARDEN: I want to put my 3D drawings in the Sculpture Garden in front of the Albuquerque Museum, even if I have to fake it using AR (Augmented Reality) and AI (Artificial Intelligence):
- FAKE PRINTS: We created images in AI, engraved then into linoleum with a laser cutter, printed, and finally exhibited the fake prints (Holly Grimm created the image below using DALL-E 2):
- HAVE I BEEN TRAINED: I discovered that only one of my drawings is in the AI database. I would have hated to have been left out:
- QUICK PRINT TURNAROUND: Henry Morales carved a portrait and printed it -- and gave it to the model before he left the drawing session (Henry also did this on December 1, 2022):
- Less obtrusive AI -- but I did not draw those legs:
- MIDJOURNEY and DALL-E 2: I blended two AI Art programs to pump up the images (further developed in Midjourney --Version 4):
- EXQUISTE AI CORPSE: The Exquiste Corpse below was based on one of my drawings-- but after it had been altered three times in AI to ape the styles of three other famous artists: Egon Schiele, Dali, and Robert Williams (I submitted this to the DAHJ gallery call-to-artists):
- EXPOSED: I got exposed at the Southwest Print Fiesta 2022, in front of the tiny Open Print Exchange #1 (I entered the Open Print Exchange #2):
- ELI LEVIN: I visited the legend Eli Levin at his home on November 5, 2022, during the Dixon Studio Tour up near Taos, New Mexico:
It gets WEIRDER:
- PANADERIA REZIZTE: Run by Jorge "Yorch" Perez in Ciudad Juarez, it surfaces in an exhibition in Albuquerque about the border, in the "Seccion Amarilla... de la Migracion," basically the Yellow Pages for immigrants:
- REVERSE PROMPT: I uploaded one of my drawings to img2prompt to generate a description of my drawing; and then I uploaded that description to Midjourney to create new figure drawings:
- AI ORIGAMI ANIMALS: I used Midjourney to create animals in origami style, and further edited them for download:
60s ALBUQUERQUE: Albuquerque's AI past in the golden 60s is almost real:
- AI HEAT TRANSFER DESIGNS based on my drawing:
- STYROFOAM PRINTS: Those at Quelab hack night on December 14, 2022 drew on Styrofoam plates, and we inked and hand printed those plates on typing paper. They actually came out very nicely -- not to mention the DRAW and PRINT QUICK TURNAROUND:
- TEXT-to-3D: Before the year ended the public got to try POINT E text-to-3D programs, which produced an OBJ file. While the 3D results are pretty ugly, this just foreshadows what will be available in the future. I was floored that we had access to any AI 3D programs this soon:
* EPILOGUE *
- Tucson anticipated the BUCKET EXHIBITIONS idea just at the same time we started the print shows:
OTHER YEAR END SUMMARIES
- Finish My Figure Drawings (book 2017)
- Margaret Blonder's blog
- "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" has a scene filmed at my house in December 2021, and it was released in September 2022 (though not to the wider public)
- Dr Ricardo Romo lecturing at Mexic-Arte: The Origins and Evolution of Chicano Art: Perspectives on Texas and California
- When 1,900 3D artists collaborate on one When 1,900 3D artists collaborate on one project | Dynamic Machines [ ALL RENDERS ]
- Adric's YouTube