June 22, 2023

Drawn live at North Fourth Art Center in Albuquerque:

PRINTING

We printed linocut discs on a REAL TORTILLA Press to proof them for BOTH the PRINTERS PLANET POP-UP market in Santa Fe on June 24th, and the PRINT OFF in Guadalajara on July 8th:

THE PRINTERS PLANET

print pop-up market in Santa Fe

in front of the CURRENTS NEW MEDIA exhibition

The same round 4 inch diameter linocuts will be going to Guadalajara:

Live Tortilla Printing

in Guadalajara on July 8th

I was more involved with printmaking than drawing that night:

Cody Kamrowski

inking and printing of of his round linocut discs

Hand carved linocut disc

by Cody Kamrowski

The REAL TORTILLA PRESS worked once we put a yoga mat (cut in a circle) under the linocut, and a folded piece of tracing paper to keep the yoga mat from getting ink on it:

Printing on a REAL TORTILLA PRESS

Cody Kamrowski's

second print

Ellie Weadock 

did most of the printing on the tortilla press

Ellie Weadock's print

from her hand carved linocut disc

We laser engraved an image from Guadalajara

by Alejandra Mares 

of 3 Gatos Press

Print by Alejandra Mares

of Guadalajara

Leonardo.AI

AI print by KRRRL,

laser engraved into a linocut disc

Leonardo.AI

AI print by KRRRL,

laser engraved into a linocut disc

Leonardo.AI

AI print by KRRRL,

laser engraved into a linocut disc

Leonardo.AI

AI print by KRRRL,

laser engraved into a linocut disc

Variations from the linocut disc

hand carved by Virgil Velasco

Leonardo.AI

More round linocut discs

4 inch diameter

laser engraved from images 

generated in AI in Krrrl's style

We also made nice prints with STAMPING FOAM, which Adric brought to Quelab. 

Midjourney

The STAMP FOAM

worked really well

from a linocut

We heated up the STAMP FOAM and pushed it into the linocut while it was still hot.  

After heating the stamp foam,

we clamped it to the linocut

to hold the pressure until it cooled

The linocut was first laser engraved with a lot of fine dot texture, which translated well to the STAMP FOAM. Moreover the STAMP FOAM probably printed better as it is soft, than the same image would have printed directly from the linocut.

One can buy these STAMP FOAM Pads from Amazon or Walmart.

• Also note COLOR BOX MAGIC STAMP (and YouTube)

NOTE:  The linocut image was laser engraved directly from an AI image generated in Midjourney.  This opens a whole new sophisticated way to print AI Art!!!

Also note that the STAMP FOAM can be reheated and used again, to print a different image.

Next we tried printing with a stamp pad, and the red ink did not work too well.  However I believe that an ink pad of a darker color would work:

A darker printing pad would probably work better

and eliminate getting your hands dirty

with real ink

AUGMENTED REALITY

We also laser engraved a linocut disc with a QR code:

The printed QR code worked, and takes people to a WebAR link -- https://staynalive.net/ar/210223.html -- which conjures up one of my 3D drawings in real space:

This printed QR code

takes one to a WebAR website

that brings up 

one of my 3D drawings

on their smart phone

It takes a while to work.  First the smart phone has to scan the space, so that it knows how to insert a 3D object.  

However then one can place the 3D object anywhere, and take pictures as if it were in the real space:

February 13, 2021

Photo with an AR object

while we were still printing

February 13, 2021

February 13, 2021

Showing off my tiny AI printed image

behind the big AR drawing,

while Henry Morales focuses on printing

February 13, 2021

• More about our WebAR experiements at this link