Sunday, 31 August 2025

AUGUST SUMMARY -- 2025

I was completely consumed by PRINTMAKING in August. Meanwhile, I missed the last Argos Santa Fe drawing session on August 26th.  On AI Art front -- Chat GPT5 debuted, and Google answered with NANO BANANA, while Petalica Paint ceased operations in August:

We showed 163 EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints at the TUNEL GRAFICO exhibition in Juarez, Mexico:

SUMMARY -- TUNEL GRAFICO in Juarez
Visitors made their own prints
during the opening of the TUNEL GRAFICO exhibition
at the University of Juarez, in Mexico

YouTube video slide show of the TUNEL GRAFICO opening:

TUNEL GRAFICO -- Print Exhibition in Juarez, Mexico

AI Distortions -- Part 2
KRRRL Midjourney Videos
Jaguar AI Slop

The Santa Fe Tuesday Night Drawing group
will resume drawing at the new MADA location



DRAWINGS

These are the best KRRRL figure drawings -- mixed with the AI versions -- of August 2025:


August 27, 2025
Deborah's drawing

The last TUESDAY NIGHT DRAWING session at Argos was on August 26th. However they found a new venue at MADA via Vital Spaces, and will start drawing there on September 2, 2025:


Tuesday Night Drawing
found a new location in Santa Fe


PRINTS

August 2025 was a Printmaking Rollercoaster, as I could barely keep up with all the PRINTMAKING EVENTS:

All the frames and packaging did not fit in my car
when they arrived for the Juarez exhibition

AUGUST 1

We took a tour of the UNM Printmaking Collection:

UNM Museum Print Collection
Angel Jiang showing us the prints
at the UNM print collection

AUGUST 2

REMARQUE PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP had a remarkable re-opening at their new location in Albuquerque, and I printed live during the event:

Remarque Re-Opening
Visitors designed their own prints at the Remarque Re-opening,
and I printed them on a Tortilla Press

AUGUST 7

The MONSOON A.R.T.  (Artists Resisting Tyranny) Collective showed their prints at the Mothership Alumni Gallery in Albuquerque, opening on August 7, 2025:

MONSOON and Other August Exhibitions
Ellie Weadock stands in front of a
collaborative print from the MONSOON ART collective

AUGUST 10

We made fresh prints and temporary tattoos in the Santa Fe Railyard for THE PRINTERS PLANET, on August 10th, 2025:

SUMMARY -- THE PRINTERS PLANET Santa Fe 2025
Ellie Weadock and Daniel Allen
in a rare moment of relaxation
during THE PRINTERS PLANET in Santa Fe


AUGUST 22

We showed 163 EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints for the TUNEL GRAFICO exhibition at the University of Juarez in Mexico, and had a great opening on August 22, 2025:




AI ART

I was too distracted with printmaking to keep up entirely with AI ART developments.  CHAT GPT 5 came out, as well as Google's NANO BANANA.  Meanwhile PETALICA PAINT ceased to exist, and the music AI generator RIFUSSION become PRODUCER:

Animation made from 
layers and layers of AI ART programs


The everchanging AI landscape -- Google introduced NANO BANANA, and CHAT GPT5 came out on August 5th:

Pushing it with NANO BANANA

Chat GPT5
Users need to sign in to Chat GPT5
in order to generate images (for free)

I used PETALICA PAINT to color my drawings -- however they terminated their service in August 2025.  Originally it was named PAINTSCHAINER and I had discovered it in November 1017:

 Petalica Paint
Petalica Paint ceased operating in August

July 27, 2021
Colored by Petalica Paint in 2021

The RIFFUSION AI Music generator changed their name to PRODUCER:

PRODUCER
RIFFUSION changed their name to PRODUCER



OTHER

Page 135
of the August 2025 issue of Albuquerque Magazine

BARBARA ENDICOTT included my mug in a portrait about the Albuquerque artists who go to the life drawing groups, now showing at the South Broadway Cultural Center in the OBSTICAL ILLUSION exhibition, running from August 14 to October 17, 2025:

Barbara Endicott included me
in her 5 feet wide painting of the Albuquerque artists


Barbara Endicott had hung this portrait of Junius 
at FUSION in Albuquerque in April 2024




Noé Barnett is painting a beautiful mural on the UNM ARTS LAB building at Central and University in Albuquerque:
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Saturday, 30 August 2025

AI Distortions -- Part 2

I even pushed the weirder/edgier past blog images through the new AI programs:

Jaguar AI Slop

The above AI video was made with:
With images from these blog posts:

KREA
Gemini Nano Banana

AI Origami Animals
Compositions
ArtBreeder Collage
KREA
Gemini Nano Banana
Midjourney
EzGif
Midjourney Animation --
from the ArtBreeder Collage version
to the Gemini Nano Banana version



Chat GPT5 came out earlier (August 5th), however I only had time to test it once at the end of the month:


GPT5 prompt:  "a picture of a javelina dancing in the rain in the desert"


GPT5 generated this javelina

RIFFUSION changed their name to PRODUCER:

PRODUCER
"Jaguar Instinct"


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