KRЯRL DЯAWINGS: 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: