Tucson Sculpture Festival 2012

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:








DRAWINGS

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



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:





PRINTS

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


AUGUST 2

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


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:


AUGUST 10

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



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


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 ceased operating in August


The RIFFUSION AI Music generator changed their name to 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 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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