Sunday, 8 February 2026

February ABQ ArtWalk 2026

February 6th was a very pleasant (not cold) night for the February 2026 downtown Albuquerque Artwalk:




CHRISTIN APODACA came up from El Paso to paint a mural at the SECRET GALLERY for the La Malinche Exhibition:









CITLALI DELGADO, also of El Paso, had a beautiful painting hanging the SECRET GALLERY for the La Malinche show:


I have also been following Citlali Delgado, and also her father Francisco Delgado (for over a decade):




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A mannequin selling art
during the ABQ Artwalk 








in front of their creation "Tower of Cower II"






Seen on the street during the ABQ Artwalk


I've been following JEREMEY MONTOYA and JONITO (Jon Sanchez) for over a decade:



in front of Red Door Bar




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Mark Williams in front of his blue print
at THE GROOVE Art Space

BEN HARRISON is a 2025 Local Treasure


Looking into the studios downstairs
inside the Curious Toast building




REMARQUE OPENING

On the following night -- February 7, 2026 -- they had the first opening of the year at REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP in Albuquerque:

Tuesday, 3 February 2026

February 3, 2026

We drew at Sir Henry Morales' studio in Albuquerque:


KREA Realtime prompt:
"statue of a thin standing man in the style of Bernini"

The two previous images mixed in KREA




We set up Stable Diffusion on a server at Quelab with 28 Gigs of VRAM on February 1, 2026. I uploaded my drawing and used the AI model "-v1-5-inpainting.ckpt [c6bbc15e32]" to generate the image below:

Stable Diffusion prompt: 
"Reclining female figure in art nouveau style"

The double AI version of the first drawing in this blog post




KREA Realtime prompt:
"a clothed reclining woman in the style of art nouveau and Bernini"

The two previous images mixed in KREA


PRINTMAKING


Henry carved scraps of linoleum, and put them together to make a great print:

The print from carved linoleum scraps

The carved scraps on the press

We hung Henry's print exhibition at the Juan Tabo Library on January 31, 2026, and I put the final touches on the show on February 4th:







AI


Clawdbot, Moltbot, OpenClaw, whatever it's called now -- the AI Agent that came out in the last week and does everything for you (and maybe broke the Internet):