Thursday, 31 October 2024

OCTOBER SUMMARY -- 2024

The October Blitz kept me busy all month.

October 31, 2024

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















SHAUNA CORINNE MURRAY had an opening at La Cumbre Brewing Company on Girard in Albuquerque on Halloween, October 31st, 2024:







Shauna previously had an art opening at Side Track Brewery on July 5th, 2024:


Julianna Kirwin wheat-pasted PAVEL ACEVEDO'S prints on her wall in Albuquerque for Halloween:



October 30, 2024

We drew at Fusion in Albuquerque:






























Ellie brought these clip on Vovofo book lights so that we can see the paper when we are at the FUSION drawing sessions:


She also bought an antique glass doorknob online, to use as a printmaking baren:


Antique glass door knob
should work as a printmaking baren


Wednesday, 30 October 2024

October 29, 2024

We drew at Sir Henry Morales' studio in Albuquerque:














Barbara Endicott will be part of the R3SIST! exhibition at the Old Walls Gallery in Albuquerque, opening on November 1st, 2024:


AUGUST MUTH is speaking at UNM on November 14th, 2024:




Tuesday, 29 October 2024

October 28, 2024

Drawn at Art Buddies in Albuquerque:
















When I went home that night I spotted a raccoon in my backyard:

The raccoon in my back yard


My back yard
(with the raccoon in the middle)


Maybe it's an omen.  PAVEL ACEVEDO came to town, and his power animal is the raccoon, because he takes things and brings them back to the community:

DENVER

I remixed the murals in the RiNo District of Denver with Midjourney AI:



Fake Mural
(A + B)

REAL MURAL
A

REAL MURAL
B

Fake Mural
(B + C)

Fake Mural
(B + C)

REAL MURAL
C

Fake Mural
(D + E)

REAL MURAL
D

REAL MURAL
E


Then I continued to remix and remix using an AI version of a portrait I drew on September 27th, and got the AI portrait murals below:

September 27, 2024 -- Portrait
I mixed an AI version of one of of my portrait drawings
with variations of Real Mural D
to get the AI portrait murals below








MORE PHOTOS

We enjoyed walking around and drinking beers in the hipster RiNo District of Denver:

RiNo Cowboy on his bike


Tanya stepping into Improper City


The bathrooms at Improper City 
confused me


I thought this was a clever mural outside of CREMA COFFEE:

Clever Mural

And maybe my favorite art in the whole RiNo District was this photo at CREMA in the bathroom of a urinal in at the Hole in the Wall bar in Austin ,Texas.  I love the nested self-referential concept:


Detailed labeling data
of the art in the bathroom,
of the Austin photo from the Hole in the Wall


I wonder however,
if this posted sign is necessary at CREMA

Unlike in Albuquerque, dogs aren't allowed in the coffee houses in Denver:



I stayed at the Days Inn hotel
just down the street from the Colorado Capital building,


Down the street was a Voodoo Donuts




MEOW WOLF
DENVER

My favorite room in Meow Wolf Denver was filled with bad portrait drawings:



Tanya in the Bacon Faces room


I could draw a better portrait than this...
maybe


Axoaxoniclab in the Santa Fe art district of Denver.  This is an augmented reality furniture by Nicholas Figel.  He uses the augmented reality app JigSpace, to target his augmented furniture objects to a specific place in the real world:


We saw a few of these sidewalk light projection ads, in front of businesses in Denver (are they affordable?):



Ms Piggy and I
at a Halloween party