- I uploaded my drawing to SAME ENERGY and got a lot of interesting somewhat similar images
Wednesday, 2 September 2026
September 1, 2026
We drew at Sir Henry Morales' studio in Albuquerque:
Sunday, 30 August 2026
AUGUST SUMMARY -- 2026
After THE PRINTERS PLANET in Santa Fe on August 2nd, the stress was over. I resumed working in AI -- tackling Gaussian Splats and by reinterpreting famous art works in my drawing style. I drew two models in Santa Fe, but could not stay long enough for the 20 minutes poses.
(at least it's not cold as hell)
The reception to my drawings --
that I never get
DRAWINGS
REAL drawing vs AI drawing
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PRINTMAKING
The biggest PRINTMAKING effort was THE PRINTERS PLANET in Santa Fe on August 2nd. Ellie pulled ALBU-BRIJE prints and gave them out to the public for free:
I then punched out a stack of "hat" tessellation tiles, and delivered them to the New Mexico School for the Arts, a high school in Santa Fe. This is because I met the Chair of the Visual Arts department at THE PRINTERS PLANET:
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I punched out a whole 4'x8' sheet of Expanded PVC Foam
into "hat" tessellation tiles
I packed these tiles up in a plastic box
to deliver them to the New Mexico School for the Arts
on August 25, 2026
At Quelab we 3D printed some of the ALBU-BRIJES derived from linocut prints:
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Ellie Weadock made a multi-color ALBU-BRIJE reduction print, and posted a video of how she registered and printed it:
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AI ART
3D GAUSSIAN SPLATS
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(13 MB upload)
- ALBU-BRIJES (28 MB loading)
- August2026__02 (17 MB loading)
AUGMENTED REALITY
- <model-viewer> (to place in the environment)
- MINDAR (to place in a specific spot next to the "target")
And we pulled prints of those AUGMENTED REALITY ALBU-BRIJES and gave them out to the public for free at THE PRINTERS PLANET:
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AI ART HIGHLIGHTS
The "Paper Sculpture" prompt in KREA Realtime
usually converts my drawings nicely into 3D
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Is AI ART Original?
Yes and No
*YES*
The sculpture below looks nothing like Laocoön and His Sons -- after I altered it with Artificial Intelligence in KREA, using a model trained on my drawings.
Moreover when I do a "reverse search" on the result -- using "Google Lens" -- I get nothing that looks like my AI image:
Reverse search with "Google Lens"
Thus it seems like I arrived at something original after using AI. Again, I altered this ancient masterpiece with an AI based on my original personal drawing style.
I actually used a second AI model based on both Bernini and my-personal-drawing-style. I then expected to generate clones of Berninis, but the results are still very different from Bernini's sculptures.
For instance, note the difference between the original Bernini sculpture and the AI version (on the right below). Again, I altered the original sculpture with two AI models -- one trained on my drawings, and another based on Bernini-and-my-drawings:
REAL Bernini vs AI Variation
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The AI result is definitely different from the REAL Bernini -- but is it original?
*NO*
Conversely the results in MIDJOURNEY seem to be just clones of other Midjourney images. Note the aesthetic in the Midjourney promotional trailer released in March 2026:
These promotional YouTube images above feel very similar to the ones I generated in Midjourney with my own aesthetic preferences:
These images that I generated in Midjourney
look like images everyone else generated in Midjourney
Even though the subject matter is very different, all the Midjourney-generated images look the same. I did that on purpose with the images I generated. However it seems that everyone's images are also just cloned in Midjourney, as they look/feel too much alike. I do not think that the Midjourney-generated images are original.
*YES and NO*
- Ultimately I still maintain that the key to original AI ART is to train your own AI models (as I did above in KREA).
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- Deep Dream Generator let me use the new WAN 3.0 video model for free for a couple of days
- Midjourney came out with an update:
OTHER
Eric J Garcia's mural
at the Albuquerque Museum
Jeanette Cook at her opening
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I ran into Anthony Ryder on August 4, 2026,
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The Rio Grande dried up entirely again. I took this photo on August 12, 2026:
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