September Summary 2023

I was very active with both prints and AI Art again in September 2023:

PRINTS

TUCSON

The University of Arizona Art Museum had a Panel Discussion online on Zoom, on September 21st, 2023, about the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta exhibition.  

Zoom panel discussion

for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta

Olivia Miller, the director of the University of Arizona Art Museum, hosted a panel of Desert Triangle print artists -- Cristina Cardenas, Ramon Cardenas, Manuel Guerra and me.

• The reception for our print exhibition is on October 26, 2023, and the show will be up until December 21, 2023.

LAS VEGAS,

 New Mexico

I started the month, on September 1st for the First Friday Gallery Crawl, printing in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and got on the cover of the Las Vegas Optic newspaper the next week.

I was on the cover of the 

Las Vegas Optic newspaper

September 8, 2023

We printed at Fat Crow Press in Las Vegas, NM,

the letterpress studio of Julie Sola

ALBUQUERQUE

I helped out Henry Morales during his woodblock printmaking workshop at the Gutierrez-Hubbell House in the South Valley of Albuquerque on September 9, 2023:

Henry Morales directed

a woodblock printmaking workshop

in the South Valley of Albuquerque

One of our star printmakers -- Cody Kamrowski -- showed his work during the North Valley Studio Tour in Albuquerque, on September 16th and 17th, 2023:

Cody Kamrowski

in front of his self-portrait

Virgil Velasco built a print drying rack

with wood and marbles

AI ART

I continued using AI to make art, including AI animations like the YouTube compilation below:

Best KRRRL Drawings playlist 2023

Playlist of PIKA LABS videos

Midjourney

AI Comic Factory

Pika Labs

Deforum

Pika Labs Flicks by Krrrl

I continued to push my drawings through AI, using the beefy GPU computer at Quelab.  Adam installed a new version of the AI program -- Stability Matrix -- which would generate new versions of figures in my drawing style.  I would upload one of my drawings, and choose an AI model based on my drawing style, to generate infinite versions of fake drawings in my style:

Variations with Stability Matrix

on the Quelab computer

The AI generation

most like my drawing style

Stability Matrix

Pika Labs

Why not enhanced with AI animation?

24_Fresco secco and unrelated techniques

Pika Labs

AI animating

one of my older drawings

We are pushing the technology at Quelab, and Adam generated a great AI video on the beefy GPU on the Quelab computer using Deforum:

Adam generated a great AI video

using Deforum

So I used Deforum and the AI model based on my drawings, to make a short AI video of figures in my drawing style:

September 19, 2023

Deforum AI animation

of fake figures in my drawing style

I even made a hologram presentation from the AI animation:

AI video into hologram

DRAWINGS

I also drew, and cheated and used Ken Romig's ink makers to draw:

My drawing on September 7th,

using Ken Romig's art markers

Trevor Jones drew me, middle portrait,

during that night

• Sad News:  We learned that the North Fourth Art Center will be closing at the end of the year, the last drawing session will be on December 7th

EL PASO

I was in downtown El Paso on September 28, 2023, and saw many wonderful things.

The El Paso Museum of Art framed and hung all the big prints made during the PRINT PACHANGA  on July 27, 2023.  They will be up until January 7, 2024:

PRINT PACHANGA Prints

hung at the El Paso Museum of Art

Cimi had started a new mural in downtown El Paso:

Cimi standing in front of his

mural-in-process on 4th Ave

One block over, still on 4th Ave, a crew of young artists (whom I didn't know) were also painting a mural:

Mural by LxsDos

in downtown El Paso

I just noticed this sculpture of Pancho Villa and General Pershing in front of the newly remodeled hotel downtown, the Paso Del Norte:

Friends before enemies --

Pancho Villa shaking hands with General Pershing

It looks like they were friends before they were enemies:

Villa met Pershing on a friendly visit,

on August 26, 2014

SOFTWARE

• Microsoft Photos Legacy
• Looking Gloves video to hologram app

• AI comic book generator
• Ideogram -- is an AI program that mixes words with images
• bubble.io -- is an AI program that writes codeIdeogram
• Stable Warp Diffusion
• Lambda Demos -- Image Mixer

• AI we do not have access yet:
• PERFUSION -- Nvida AI training in 4 minutes, from a 100 KB program (YouTube)
• CONCEPT LAB -- generates NEW ART STYLESSimulon (for iOS)-- places 3D models in a specific location

September 29, 2023 -- Portrait

The portrait session on Friday nights is free, but the artists had to give their drawings to the sitter. This session was at Art Buddies in Albuquerque:

Midjourney

Pika Labs

EzGif

Great AI improvement,

just not of the model I drew

Gary Cohen's drawing

posted on Instagram

Zoom Panel Discussion for the DESERT TRIANGLE

Our Zoom Panel Discussion went really well on September 21, 2023.  This was in conjunction with the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta exhibition at the University of Arizona Art Museum:

The Zoom Panel Discussion

about the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta

Olivia Miller, director of the University of Arizona Art Museum, asked questions of the four Desert Triangle artists -- Manuel Guerra (El Paso), Ramon Cardenas (El Paso), Cristina Cardenas (Tucson) and Karl Whitaker (Albuquerque).

The talk went from 5:30 to 6:30 PM, Arizona Time (an hour behind El Paso and Albuquerque).

In a few weeks the panel talk will be posted online on the YouTube website of the University of Arizona Art Museum.

September 19, 2023

We drew at Sir Henry Morales' studio in Albuquerque:

Stability Matrix

The AI version of my linocut plate

PRINT

Different version of the above image

Different version of the above image

I uploaded the above scan of my linocut to Stable Diffusion and asked for "Linocut of a woman sitting on the floor"

Stability Matrix

prompt:" Linocut of a woman sitting on the floor"

Stability Matrix

prompt:" Linocut of a woman sitting on the floor"

OTHER

Henry Morales' drawing

Previous drawings

by Henry Morales

Cassandra's linocut

Abstract Experiments

I uploaded my abstract drawing below to some AI ART programs -- but how much influence did it really have on the output?

My abstract drawing

Midjourney generated four very different variations, from the abstract drawing above:

Midjourney

Midjourney prompt: "Solidworks"

I animated two of the variations in Pika Labs:

Midjourney

Pika Labs

EzGif

Midjourney prompt: "Solidworks"

Midjourney

Pika Labs

EzGif

Midjourney prompt: "Solidworks"

I then uploaded the same abstract drawing into the Stable Diffusion program -- with the prompt: "A woman designed in Solidworks in the style of Hans Bellmer" -- using the AI model trained on my drawings.  Later I had to use the prompt: "dancing" in Pika Labs to get the animation:

Stability Matrix

Pika Labs

EzGif

prompt: "A woman designed in Solidworks in the style of Hans Bellmer"

• Note also -- I generated the initial image remotely, using the beefy video card on the computer at Quelab.

OBSERVATION: AI seems to understand Hans Bellmer's style, but not my vector drawing style.

AI VIDEO

On September 20, Adam added the video maker Deforum to Stability Matrix and I generated a video (remotely), starting with the "Hans Bellmer" influenced image above, and using the AI model based on my drawings:

Stability Matrix (Deforum)

EzGif

HOLOGRAM

Also note that videos can now be converted into holograms, using this Looking Gloves app online.  The result (a "quilt") needs to be uploaded to the Looking Glass Portrait display to be seen as a hologram (more info here):

A hologram "quilt"

generated online with the Looking Gloves Video app

(download the larger file below)

The "quilt" from above,

as seen on the Looking Glass Portrait display

Download:

• Hologram "quilt" of the above video, to be viewed as a hologram in the Looking Glass Portrait display (8 columns 6 rows) -- Krrrl_drawing_clothed_quilt.jpg  (4.63 MB) 

• The original AI video -- Deforum_clothed_drawings.mp4  (6.23 MB)  

The figures in the AI video above were also generated from an AI model based on my drawings

 

Testing the Looking Glass Portrait

HOLOGRAM Display in 2011

Now, can we also "print" this hologram when Adric's LitHolo printer comes in?