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Sunday, 31 March 2024

MARCH SUMMARY -- 2024

March 2024 was a big month with 27 blog posts -- as I made more progress with life drawings, prints and AI Art.  Plus I posted a lot of WebAR (Augmented Reality) links, and had ChatGPT write a few simple art programs.

LIFE DRAWINGS

Of course my main goal is to improve my figure drawings:



My favorite drawings this month were sparse and sketchier:



March 6, 2024


March 11, 2024


March 13, 2024


March 18, 2024


I also started to draw with Conte Crayon in order to get darker:

March 30, 2024
I gave my darker Conte Crayon drawing
to Andy


PRINTMAKING

Printmaking thawed out in March 2024. I laser engraved a lot of linocuts to make AI relief prints.  We printed those during Henry Morales' opening at the Sanitary Tortilla Factory on March 8th, 2024 in Albuquerque.  Virgil Velasco, Ellie Weadock and Henry Morales made a lot of progress on their BIG INK print collaboration.  And I went to the Panel Discussion at the El Paso Museum of Art for the NEXOS ENTRE RAICES exhibition:


I used PhotoMosh to convert and massage my AI images into black-and-white images ready for the laser engraver:

Ready for Linocut

Then we printed and framed five laser engraved linocuts to hang at Quelab:


Sanitary Tortilla Factory -- Live Printmaking
We did live printmaking at the Sanitary Tortilla Factory
for Henry Morales' opening on March 8, 2024


We also made great progress on the BIG INK collaborative print:

March 19, 2024
We proofed Virgil Velasco's section
of the collaborative BIG INK woodcut
on March 19th

March 19, 2024
The status of the collaborative BIG INK woodcut
on March 19th, 2024

March 19, 2024
Virgil's section of the BIG INK woodcut


Ellie's BIG INK section
ready to proof

March 19, 2024
Henry's Horse


On March 23rd I saw the NEXOS ENTRE RAICES exhibition and panel talk at the El Paso Museum of Art:

El Paso -- March 2024
I went to the NEXOS ENTRE RAICES exhibition
and Panel Talk
at the El Paso Museum of Art


John Tollett laser engraved one of my drawings into linoleum at Make Santa Fe, and printed it in two colors:

February 23, 2024 -- Portrait
John Tollett made a print
from one of my AI altered portraits



COMPUTER ART

ChatGPT3 Programs

Bob at Quelab helped me write SIMPLE ART PROGRAMS with ChatGPT 3.5, which can be used online:

GPT3 Art
Online art program
that adds colored lines over an image


The Online PROGRAMS (refresh browser for new image):
WebAR

I crafted some Augmented Reality figures that one can experience with their smartphone -- WITHOUT downloading any apps -- using WebAR:

WebAR
WebAR
place my 3D Rope Figure in real space


I uploaded some of my 3D AI figures to Southwest Cyberport with WinSCP, to host my AR experiences:
I got back into Midjourney on March 1, 2024:



"--cref" followed by the URL of the source image

AI Catch Up
I generated this image
with the new "consistent character" function of Midjourney


At first I was having a hard time getting anything I liked out of Midjourney -- but then I generated a lot of desert scenes in the style of Moebius:

Desert Paradiso
Desert Paradiso


However I was most pleased with the ROPE IMAGES that Midjourney generated. Moreover unlike what Adam Savage asserts, I think my AI ROPE generations "smell of a strong point-of-view!"

SPECIFICALY I "blended" this particular rope image below with other drawings and images, to get the best results:

This particular rope image
gives me the best results
when "blended" in Midjourney

Mayan ROPE
I like the movement
and warm texture of this AI generated image



ROPE Figures
ROPE -- by KRRRL


More ROPE
More ROPE Figures -- by KRRRL


I converted 25  ROPE images -- into diptychs with depth maps (using RGB-Depthify) -- so that they can be seen as hologram after uploading them to the Looking Glass Portrait Display:

More ROPE
RGB-Depthify
DOWNLOAD:  240315__Rope_holograms.ZIP (6.5 MB)
25 images to be seen as Holograms


Drawings into ROPE
Rope KRRRL Drawings


Mayan ROPE
MAYAN ROPE -- by KRRRL




LEONARDO.AI continues to add new features (and I can't keep up):

HAIPER

HAIPER is a new AI program that allows me to generate two seconds of video for free:

AI Catch Up
Haiper
My ROPE Lady
animated with Haiper


Adric writes:  scaniverse now supports gaussian splatting:
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Saturday, 30 March 2024

March 30, 2024

We drew at the Edith Bunker in Albuquerque, with Monty Singer, Brian Gonzales, and Cody Kamrowski:




Andy collected my print













Cody Kamrowski moved into the Edith Bunker studio, and built a French Cleat wall for painting. He hangs his panels on the wall with Velcro:




Cody Kamrowski is exhibiting in England this summer at the Hampstead Art Society.

Cody gave me some music links:

I love the dad rock that they play during the drawing session, but it is nice to get to hear something a little more contemporary.




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EL Paso -- March 2024

I was in El Paso from March 21st to March 29th, 2024:

NEXO ENTRE RAICES
Print Exhibition

The NEXO ENTRE RAICES exhibition was exhibiting on the first floor of the El Paso Museum of Art, from March 22 to July 21, 2024:

The NEXO ENTRE RAICES
print exhibition at the El Paso Museum of Art

March 19, 2024

NEXO ENTRE RAICES
Exhibition and Panel Talk
at the El Paso Museum of Art




The PANELISTS

There was a panel discussion for the NEXOS ENTRE RAICES exhibition Saturday, March 23rd, 2023:

The Panel Discussion


Juan de Dios Mora -- Spanish interview


I had gone to San Antonio in 2016
to buy a print from Juan de Dios Mora


 Nabil Gonzalez


Gabriela Morac -- Spanish interview


We met Gabriela Morac in Oaxaca
in 2019


Gabriel Avalos -- Spanish interview


I met Gabriel Grafica (Gabriel Avalos)
in Mexico City in 2017


Francisco Delgado -- Spanish interview


Francisco Delgado
making prints in Oaxaca in 2015


Marco Sánchez -- English interview, Spanish interview


Marco Sanchez put together the NEXOS ENTRE RAICES print show, which was a HUGE effort.  Thank you, Marco:

Marco Sanchez holds down the "C", left
on the Zocalo in Mexico City 2019


Marco Sanchez also put on the PRINT PACHANGA
in the El Paso Museum of Art
in July 2023




There was also a NEXOS panel discussion previously
when the exhibition came to Albuquerque


GALLERY

The crowd in the gallery
before the Panel Discussion










The Artists


Queretaro
I met some of the print artists
in Queretaro in 2019


The Studios




The Desert Triangle Print Carpeta
also showed in the same gallery in 2016
at the El Paso Museum of Art



The NEXOS ENTRE RAICES print exhibition had previously shown at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, from April 21st to September 10th, 2023:


NEXOS ENTRE RACIES
came to Albuquerque previously


Below is a YouTube video of the previous NEXO ENTRE RAICES exhibition at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque in 2023:

NEXO ENTRE RAICES -- Print Exhibition
 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center

    • Meanwhile Joe Marshall and Pavel Acevedo were making prints in Tucson on the same day at the Panel Discussion at the El Paso Museum of Art (March 23, 2024)

2024 Border Biennial

The El Paso Museum of Art was featuring the 2024 BORDER BIENNIAL in the main gallery, and written up in Texas Monthly:

The 2024 Border Biennial
was the 5th Border Biennial


The Artists




I'm standing between
two paintings by George Strasburger of Tucson


Tino Ortega of El Paso
 and Alejandro Macias of Tucson


Adrian Aguirre of Las Cruces


Citlali Delgado


Gil Rocha of Laredo


MURALS

I spotted some new murals in downtown El Paso:

An old mural
by Christin Apodaca


By Cimi






"SOPA" punctuating this mural
at the far right


"SOPA" means the El Paso Art District
"South of Paisano"


Meanwhile there was an AR Alien Javelina invasion in Hueco Tanks:

AR Alien Javelina invasion 

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