April 23, 2024

We drew at Sir Henry Morales' studio in Albuquerque:

This drawing is made in the exact proportion

of the linoleum for the Exquisite Print project --

12" x 6"

EXQUISITE PRINTS

We are going to use the drawings of this session to make EXQUISITE PRINTS!

After the success of the BIG INK collaboration, the artists in Henry Morales' studio decided to engage in another print collaboration -- the EXQUISITE PRINTS.

The idea is taken from the Surrealist game "Exquisite Corpse."

We are all going to carve a 6" x 12" piece of linoleum, with an image from the same long model session, and then cut it up in three pieces.  Later we will reassemble the three pieces -- but from linoleums of different artists.

The 6" x 12" linoleum

Virgil had cut down

 a 12" x 18" piece of linoleum from Takach Press

into three pieces, and handed it out

The participants are Henry Morales, Ellie Weadock, Virgil Velasco, Casandra Encinias and Karl Whitaker:

ELLIE WEADOCK

Ellie's drawing from the live model session

The next day Ellie transferred her drawing 

to linoleum

HENRY MORALES

VIRGIL VELASCO

CASANDRA ENCINIAS

KRRRL

UPDATE (April 29th):

UPDATE (May 3, 2024):  Virgil's progress:

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Julianna Kirwin also drew with us,

but is not participating in the Exquisite Print projects

• Ellie posted a YouTube video on how to carve a linoleum -- Linocut printing demo - without a press

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We had done small collaborative prints last year, after cutting 6"x6" linoleum squares into two puzzle pieces, and distributing them to Henry Morales, Virgil Velasco, Cody Kamrowski of Albuquerque, and Manuel Guerra of El Paso:

March 14, 2023

Inking the puzzle collaboration,

with pieces by Henry Morales and Virgil Velasco

I also made an Exquisite Corpse image during the pandemic lockdown in 2022, with three AI variations based on one of my drawings.  I used "style transfer" in Deep Dream Generator to transform one of my drawings into variations by Egon Schiele, Salvador Dali, and Robert Williams.  Then I used Photoshop Elements to cut those AI variations into three pieces, and then recombine them into a single figure:

Variations on a figure

AI Exquisite Corpse

based on one of my drawings

I could use the laser cutter to engrave linoleum to make an Exquisite Print.  I did  not do that (yet) with my AI Exquisite Print, but I could:

PhotoMosh

A start 

for making an AI Exquisite Print

We could also make Exquisite Corpse drawings, and then massage them digitally to laser engrave on Linoleum.

BIG INK PRINTS

Delivery

Ellie cut down all four pressings of the BIG INK print and put them in 24" x 36" tubes, and then delivered them to all the BIG INK collaborators:

Our BIG INK print unrolled