January 29, 2024

Drawn at Art Buddies in Albuquerque:

PRINTS

On January 30th we met at Henry Morales's studio again to make more print progress:

Virgil's new rabbit print

BIG INK

"The Team" put their blocks together for their BIG INK collaboration print:

Ellie Weadock, Virgil Velasco and Henry Morales

working on their BIG INK print collaboration

The print collaboration panels so far

Virgil was transferring his drawing with carbon paper, and noted that the transferred lines did not smear:

The black transfer paper at the top

worked great for translating the drawing onto the wood panel

Virgil's drawing transferred to wood

Leonardo.AI

PIKA LABS

An AI ART version

of what Virgil's mammoth might look like

at White Sands, New Mexico

Henry's drawing directly onto the wood

Everyone made a cut (though Ellie had made her first cut last week):

The FIRST Cuts!!!

Ellie even made a test print from her first cut:

The test print

Leonardo.AI

PIKA LABS

An AI ART version

of what Ellie's Coelophysis might look like

at White Sands, New Mexico

VIRGIL VELASCO

PRINT

Virgil also carved a small 6x6 inch linocut, and they printed it in three colors:

The rainbow roller

shows a bit of Virgil's print

Henry's Horse

Henry Morales had made an etching decades ago, and Ellie printed it at the CNM printmaking studio on the west side of Albuquerque: