August 3, 2023

Drawn live at North Fourth Art Center in Albuquerque:

PRINTS

We experimented during the drawing group by laser cutting EVA foam. The portable Laserpecker 2 cut the foam quickly, but not the adhesive backing.  The idea is to ink the cut foam and make prints.

Laser cutting drawings

in sticky back EVA foam

Laser cut foam print

hanging at the North Fourth Art Center

Ellie brought in a pasta maker to make prints, and our 5.5 x 8.5 inch EVA foam sheets fit perfectly in her pasta maker:

We did not ink any foam sheets

and try out the pasta maker for printing

Then we took a picture of one of Wesley Pulkka's drawings, hanging in the gallery, and laser cut that into foam.  The clean lines in Wesley's drawings worked wonderfully:

Wesley Pulkka's drawing

laser cut into EVA foam

The drawing hanging in the gallery

at the North Fourth Art Center

Wesley Pulkka

holding the laser cut foam

which we gave to him

FIRST FRIDAY

North Fourth Art Center

They had a big turnout for the First Friday ARTSCrawl at the North Fourth Art Center in Albuquerque, and some visitors ever admired our prints:

Visitors admire the prints

from the last BLOCK PARTY

Mitch Elson

from the drawing group in front of his paintings

Chuck Lockhart hung drawings

 from the Thursday night drawing sessions

Aveann Bousek hung drawings

 from the Thursday night drawing sessions

Tortuga Gallery

Barbara Endicott showed print paintings at the Tortuga Gallery in Albuquerque:

Barbara Endicott (black and white dress)

Barbara Endicott 

Barbara Endicott 

Marian Berg

Remarque Print Workshop

Two out-of-town artists exhibited at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque.  Ramon G Deanda moved from Moriarity to Alpine, Texas to teach at Sul Ross University.

Ramon G Deanda

Ramon G Deanda

Ramon G Deanda