KRЯRL DЯAWINGS

Wednesday, 20 April 2022

April 19, 2022

The Tuesday Night drawing group of Santa Fe drew both in person and on Zoom at the new Argos Gallery/Studio location. They arranged a hybrid real/virtual drawing session because we are still coming out of Covid:

John Tollett drew this pose live,

while I drew it from Zoom on my laptop screen

Zoom kept closing on me, and then reopening...however things became stable towards the end of the session:

John Tollett drew this pose live,

while I drew it from Zoom on my laptop screen

John Tollett drew this pose live,

while I drew it from Zoom on my laptop screen

John Tollett drew this pose live,

while I drew it from Zoom on my laptop screen

John Tollett drew this pose live,

while I drew it from Zoom on my laptop screen

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This time I started carving the linoleum before the pose ended. After the first 16 minutes I stained the lino square red, and then drew and carved on it the next 16 minutes:

After the first 16 minutes of the last long pose

John Tollett drew this pose live,

while I drew it from Zoom on my laptop screen

Printed on May 9, 2022

I altered John Tollett's drawing

in Photoshop Elements 2021 (Filter>Sketch>Stamp...)

thinking it might make a nice relief print

On Monday, April 18th, the mask mandate on public transportation ended due to a judge's ruling.

Friday, 15 April 2022

April 14, 2022

Drawn live at North Fourth Arts Center in Albuquerque.

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Deep Dream Generator

Two drawings combined

and altered with AI

This was scanned, then edited in Photoshop Elements 2021

using "Enhance>Unsharp Mask"

and "Enhance>Haze Removal..."

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Deep Dream Generator

PNG with transparent background,

right click,"Open link in new tab" to see the image

(or download to see image)

Combo

made by overlaying the PNG of the first drawing

(second image in this blog posting)

on top of the above drawing

Deep Dream Generator

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I almost enjoy carving now. I discovered that the "V tool" can give me a variation of line thickness, which I was craving. I also tried to erase the dark pencil marks after I cut, trying to get a better sense of how the linoleum would print:

I carved this at Slow Burn Coffee

on April 23rd

Thoughts

Perhaps I should roll up the linoleum with water soluble black ink, and let that dry. That way I could see what else I wanted to cut before printing. I think this would be messy were I to do it with Akua.
Tandy Leather sells a "pull" tool, according to Dennis.
Rich says that Goop will clean the Akua ink off my hands
Julianna told me that there are two kinds of Cranfield Caligo safe wash inks -- Relief and Etching. I like the Cranfield tubes
Perhaps drawing with a water soluble graphite would be a good way to create an image on the linoleum square before cutting.