November 11, 2024

Drawn at Art Buddies in Albuquerque (I left early):

ABSTRACT AI

I drew this abstract drawing, and then worked it through a lot of AI to get results...that had little to do with my original drawing:

My initial abstract drawing

before any AI treatments

Petalica Paint

Midjourney

Haiper

EzGif

The abstract drawing above

passed through multiple AI treatments

Midjourney has a new feature where they will let one "re-texture" an image that one uploads -- so I uploaded my abstract drawing and "re-textured" it with prompts referring to other artists:

prompt: "drawing by Giacometti"

prompt: "drawing by Ingres"

prompt: "drawing by R Crumb"

Midjourney "re-texture" interface

PRINTS

Joe Marshall sent me photos from Tucson of the new tessellation tile prints he carved:

Previous announcement from Joe Marshall at the Heart of The Sun Gallery in Tucson:

• I got an email from Xerocraft makerspace on November 12th.  It looks like I can send them a stack of linoleum, and they will laser cut it into "hat" tiles for me.  Then Joe Marshall can pick them up for our EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print project

• I also left a stack of linoleum at the UNM Printmaking Department, if they would like to laser cut some "hat" tiles

• And on November 13th I should be laser cutting some "hat" tiles with a private laser cutter in Albuquerque

• (Plus there is a stack of linoleum to laser cut at UTEP in El Paso)

ART TECH TALKS

• The August Muth talk at the UNM ARTS Lab starts at 5:30 on Thursday, November 14th...and will also be on Twitch.

• The Public Art and AI Workshop for Artists by Sarah Conley Odenkirk will be on Tuesday, November 16th, from 4 - 6 PM, at the Albuquerque Museum

• The Jared Tarbell talk has been rescheduled for Thursday, December 5, 2024 at the UNM ARTS Lab:

Side Busting -- on ABQ Dia De Los Muertos

Henry Morales side busted on Albuquerque's first downtown DIA DE LOS MUERTOS PARADE on November 9, 2024, 4 - 10 PM, to sell prints in the plaza at the Civic Center. So we side busted on Henry to make an EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print:

Henry Morales' print set-up

at the Dia De Los Muertos Parade

in downtown Albuquerque on November 9, 2024

This "inaugural" event was sponsored by Dia De Los Muertos USA and the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce, featuring almost exclusively corporate booths from businesses like Telemundo, Presbyterian Hospital, Blue Shield and Bank of America. However the more home grown MUERTOS Y MARIGOLDS PROCESSION AND CELEBRATION has been going on for over a decade in Albuquerque's South Valley.

We hand printed one EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print:

ARTISTS:

• Ellie Weadock
• Juan Wijngaard
• Gabriele Teich
• Ella York
• Virgil Velasquez
• Barbara Endicott

Albuquerque DIA DE LOS MUERTOS

Henry all set up at the beginning

about 4 PM

Henry inking to make an 

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print

Inked and ready-to-print

Hand printing

The Reveal!

Sundown

Someone in the background

holding the Henry print that they bought

The dancers were from 

Ballet Folklórico Santa Fe

Henry in the dark

The parade started at 7 PM

From the Albuquerque Consulado de Mexico

Everyone had packed up and left once the parade was over, before 8 PM, though the event was scheduled to go on until 10 PM.

MUERTOS Y MARIGOLDS

 PROCESSION AND CELEBRATION

The MUERTOS Y MARIGOLDS PROCESSION AND CELEBRATION went on the weekend before, November 3rd, 2024, which I blogged about.  This event has been going on in Albuquerque's South Valley for more than a decade:

Katie Morales, Henry Morales, and Ellie Weadock

selling prints during the MUERTOS Y MARIGOLDS celebration

on November 3rd, in Albuquerque's South Valley

The South Valley procession was larger than the parade

at the Albuquerque Civic Center 

a week later

Perhaps the most enduring gesture of the Muertos Y Marigolds celebration, was the vendor tent selling hot dogs and Cokes for only $1 apiece:

Hot dogs and Cokes

for only $1 apiece

ALL SOULS PROCESSION

Tucson

Previously I went to a lot of ALL SOULS PROCESSIONS in Tucson, Oaxaca, El Paso and elsewhere:

ALL SOULS PROCESSION

Tucson 2012

November 8, 2024

During the downtown ABQ Artwalk (November 8, 2024) we drew at the Safe House Distilling Co. again in Albuquerque -- Ben Harrison organized the event:

Ben Harrison organized the drawing session at the Safe House Distilling Co.:

Ben Harrison's drawings

ABQ ARTWALK

November 2024

The ABQ Artwalk was on the second Friday of November 2024, with openings and other art events in downtown Albuquerque:

Ken Romig had an opening 

at The Groove Artspace

Ken Romig's figure drawing

at The Groove Artspace

Juliana Chavez (aka Little Lady Wolf)

painted a mural on 6th at Central

Nani Chacon painted a new mural downtown