My state of mind
- Note: The Art LinkLetter would not send on November 30th, 2025, regardless of what Gary did
DRAWINGS
Collaboration with Daniel Allen
PRINTMAKING
JACOB GUTIERREZ had an opening for his risograph prints on November 21, 2025 at Risolana in the South Valley of Albuquerque:
Printmaking Professors Aaron Bass and Manuel Guerra
at UNM, organizing the student print exchange
ODD PRINTMAKING TECHNIQUES
I'm talking big SMACK about DETONOGRAPHY -- using explosives to "etch" an image into a plate. Chris Cherry brought in a brass plate that had "etched" a leaf into a brass plaque by explosives, and Holland made an intaglio print out of it at Remarque. The inventor of this technique -- EVELYN ROSENBERG -- apparently lives in Albuquerque. I would be fun to create another print with detonography and show it at the next Southwest Print Fiesta 2026:
The $200 leather cutting press on the left
might work with my tessellation die from the Ukraine
to punch out tessellation tiles in linoleum and foam
Henry Morales used a battery operated
Customizer Engraving Pen to draw the model into wood
to later pull a relief print
- Joe Marshall burns into wood with a tool to make his relief prints.
- I still want to try to "etch" into linoleum with Drano
AI ART
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GPT 5.1 launched on November 12, 2025. It successfully described my abstract figure drawing, and then refined it:
Moreover a lot of new programs came out on the 18th, 19th and 20th of November 2025:
Google's Gemini 3 came out on November 18th, 2025, and everyone says that it is powerful (because it has a memory and can generate things more logically).
Nano Banana Pro came out on November 19th, 2025, but I had trouble trying it out for free at first. Apparently if I choose "image" and then "Thinking/Thinking with 3 Pro" in the Gemini app, the Pro Version of Nano Banana comes up. I was slow to figure out how to fully take advantage of this:
MIDJOURNEY came out with the PROFILES feature on November 19, 2025 (but you have to have a subscription to see it). So I selected my best AI generations to create a profile of myself -- krrrl:
FLUX 2 came out about November 20, 2025...however I was unable to log into the recommended sites to try it for free. I managed to try Flux 2 Pro on KREA when my paid credits renewed on the last day of November:
My drawing altered by Flux 2 Pro
prompt: "figure drawing of a woman sitting on her thighs"
the second generation was censored
The 3D scene I generated with Marble WorldLabs
3D
- META will do something similar in their demo, but will not let you download it
My DRAWINGS on AI
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November 2025 SORA 2 videos:
- dancing (man with many arms)
- Cats in New Mexico
- dancing (in front of art nouveau building)
- "somewhere out there, every line on this page becomes a horizon"
- a herd of javelinas running with a herd of buffaloes
- Driving down Central Ave in Albuquerque in the 60s
- parts of this machine moving at different speeds
- parts of this structure melting elastically
- Deep Dream Generator now lets users generate music for free (as of Q3)-- using Google's Deep Mind Lyria. My piece was not great.
- However the AI tune -- "Walk my Walk" by Breaking Rust -- hit number one on the country download charts this month
I notice that the reverse image search in Google Lens now gives one more options -- specifically five categories that I never noticed before this month:
Google Lens now breaks down the reverse search results
by five categories
ARTISTS
DAVID BROWER was featured in a PBS show -- On the Road - New Mexico! -- which included a small segment of him drawing with us at the FUSION life drawing group on March 16, 2025:
Screen grab of David Brower at the FUSION drawing session,
from the PBS feature: On the Road - New Mexico!
SHERI CRIDER is renovating the GIZMO building in downtown Albuquerque as an arts center. She gave a talk at the UNM ARTS LAB on November 5, 2025 -- and a tour of the GIZMO building the next day, on November 6, 2025:
features our dinosaur
JESSE LITTLEBIRD -- I caught Jesse in the Kukani Gallery on November 6, 2025 -- the day before the downtown ABQ ARTWALK:
JULIANNA KIRWIN was very busy with printmaking in November -- by getting on YouTube, hosting bandana printmaking workshops, and finishing the Herstory printmaking project, by wheat pasting prints all over the city of Albuquerque -- Albuquerque's Favorite Women. She also had a solo show of her prints at FUSION in Albuquerque, opening on November 7, 2025:
JERRY WELLMAN of Axle Contemporary came down from Santa Fe to Albuquerque to show his monoprints at ACE Barbershop downtown:
AMY VENSEL came up from Las Cruces to show her work at Scarab Design House during the ABQ ARTWALK:
BARBARA ENDICOTT at her studio in the South Valley Studio Tour on Sunday, November 9, 2025:
JERRY WELLMAN of Axle Contemporary came down from Santa Fe to Albuquerque to show his monoprints at ACE Barbershop downtown:
LAURENCE WELLBORN was also showing his art bus studio during the South Valley Studio Tour:
JACOB GUTIERREZ was showing his woodcuts and risograph prints at Risolana in Albuquerque's South Valley, opening on November 21, 2025:
