February 7, 2023

Drawn at Henry Morales' studio in Albuquerque:

Since Henry Morales is a printmaker, I drew and made prints:

Eagle Polyester Lithography Plate

I first coated an expanded PVC foam plate, 6x6 inches, with black acrylic paint.  Then I scratched into it with a diamond point scribe:

The diamond point scribe 

peeled away the black acrylic paint,

but it wasn't that smooth

The print

with Speedball Supergraphic Black relief ink

For the second print

Henry drew into it

by scraping away some of the ink

Henry improved the print (left)

vs the first print with no drawings

I also drew the model into a Styrofoam plate with a pen:

Henry printed with the 

rockin' board

GRETA'S PRINTS

We also printed Greta Young's three 6x6 inch linocuts on 8x8 inch paper.  I should have done this six months ago

Henry used a letterpress

to print Greta's linocuts

Henry Morales carved this woodcut

during the model session

The next night (February 8) we transferred some heat transfer designs (HTV) onto a t-shirt with a hand held iron made for snowboards:

Heat transfer designs

on a t-shirt

Further Experiment

The next day at Quelab (February 8), I drew from the first drawing in this blog post, on a simple LCD Writing Tablet, and used Midjourney and Deep Dream Generator AI programs to arrive at the image below:

Glowing woman

1)  I drew from the first drawing in this blog post, on the LCD Writing Tablet:

I drew the first drawing in this blog post

on the LCD Writing Tablet

2)  I uploaded that drawing into Midjourney with the prompt: "sitting woman"

Midjourney

I uploaded the tablet drawing on the left

to Midjourney with the simple prompt: "sitting woman"

3)  I also uploaded the same drawing to Deep Dream Generator, and used their "Text 2 Dream" feature, with the Artistic AI model, with the same prompt: "sitting woman," to generate a realistic female portrait:

"Text 2 Dream" Deep Dream Generator

I uploaded the tablet drawing on the left

to "Text 2 Dream" in Deep Dream Generator

 with the simple prompt: "sitting woman"

using the Artistic model

4)  I then uploaded both of those images to Midjourney and blended them to make the glowing lady:

Midjourney

I blended the two images above in Midjourney

to get the nice image result below

The final image looked like it was half drawn with light, like what Picasso did for Life Magazine.

While the final result looked nothing like my original drawing, it probably could not be created any other way.  I don't believe that glowing outline would have been generated using only text prompts.