KRЯRL DЯAWINGS

I drew at FUSION in Albuquerque -- I drew on a Samsung Galaxy S9+ tablet that I bought in 2023:

Art by Kevin Cochran

DIGITAL DRAWINGS

KREA

KREA Realtime prompt:

"Transparent sculpture"

KREA

KREA Realtime no prompt

KREA

KREA Realtime prompt:

"sculpture in the style of Moebius in paper"

KREA

KREA Realtime prompt:

"abstract sculpture in the style of Bernini"

EzGIF

KREA

The digital drawing on a tablet did not handicap the AI programs. I still managed to transform the digital drawings into my style in KREA with a model trained on my past pencil drawings.

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KREA

KREA Realtime no prompt

KREA

KREA Realtime no prompt

KREA (Hunyuan 3D-2)

Paint 3D

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GLB Compressor

Download "260401Fb.GLB" (316.14 KB)

KREA

KREA Realtime no prompt

KREA

KREA Realtime no prompt

KREA

PIKA

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KREA

KREA Realtime no prompt

KREA

KREA Realtime no prompt

KREA

KREA Realtime no prompt

KREA

KREA Realtime no prompt

Art by Kevin Cochran

New mural being painted near my house

at the ABQ Rail Yards

PHOTOMEMO

Adric brought this little portable PHOTOMEMO machine to Quelab -- which will import and print small stickers:

OP ART SALAD

We printed one of my AI images

Now if we print out QR codes, are they big enough to scan?

Adric also tried to laser-bomb

the Mattox Sculpture building next door,

however just the green laser dot showed up,

and not the grid around it

The laser grid shows up nicely

close up on the sidewalk

The idea would be to do 3D Video Mapping Projection

DOWNLOAD GEMMA 4 (for your personal computer):

Google Just Dropped Gemma 4: The Most Intelligent Open Model Ever!

March 2026 marks 16 years of this blog. Meanwhile I continue to exhibit in FAKE galleries after converting my figure drawings into FAKE sculptures with AI (like I also did in February):

March 16, 2026 -- GALLERY

FAKE Indoor Gallery

March 23, 2026 -- Sculpture Garden

FAKE Outdoor Sculpture Garden

March 16, 2026 -- GALLERY

FAKE Paper Sculpture Gallery --

Generated with AI from KRRRL Drawings

AUGMENTED REALITY -- Denver

AUGMENTED REALITY

My FAKE sculpture in front of the Denver Museum of Art

AUGMENTED REALITY -- Denver

AUGMENTED REALITY

My FAKE sculpture being installed a the Denver Museum of Art

March 23, 2026 -- Sculpture Garden

Street Mural painting

of my FAKE sculpture

THE PORTRAIT PROJECT had a big opening in Santa Fe on March 20, 2026. This was of portraits by the artists of the TUESDAY NIGHT DRAWING, a group which I still draw with occasionally:

THE PORTRAIT PROJECT -- Santa Fe

The TUESDAY NIGHT DRAWING group in Santa Fe

had a huge portrait exhibition opening

BEN HARRISON has been shaking up the Albuquerque Art Scene since Covid, and was featured in a new video by Mark Archuleta -- Meet the Artist | Episode 7: Ben Harrison -- which inspired me to collect all the photos I took of Ben and make a BIG REVIEW BLOG Post about him:

BEN

BEN HARRISON

is shaking up the Art Scene in Albuquerque

JUANA ESTRADA HERNANDEZ had another exhibition at HECHO A MANO Gallery in Santa Fe, so I went to her Donut Talk on March 7, 2026. Since I had been following her career since she was a graduate student at UNM, I made a BIG BLOG Post of all the photos I posted of her:

JUANA ESTRADA HERNANDEZ in Santa Fe

JUANA ESTRADA HERNANDEZ

at her Donut Talk on March 7, 2026

for her exhibition at HECHO A MANO gallery in Santa Fe

I also sent a stack of EXQUISITE TESSELLATION uncarved linocuts to Juana in Rhode Island later on

One thing I started doing more to recent blog posts, is to add links to more related past blog posts, to shore up the current focus and weave them into the past

DRAWINGS

KRRRL 2026

Best KRRRL Drawings of March 2026

March 4, 2026

March 9, 2026

March 10, 2026

March 13, 2026 -- PORTRAIT

March 16, 2026 -- GALLERY

March 18, 2026

March 21, 2026

March 23, 2026 -- Sculpture Garden

March 25, 2026

March 31, 2026

March 9, 2026

Kirsten, Rupert, and I had a "ménage à draw"

as we were all drawing the figure

on the same paper at the same time

March 17, 2026

Me, Charlie (from the painting), Kirsten, model, cat, and Rupert

drawn that night by Kirsten

AI ART

HOW MUCH INFLUENCE DO MY ORIGINAL DRAWINGS HAVE ON THE FINAL AI GENERATED IMAGE?

March 23, 2026 -- Sculpture Garden

My drawing into a paper sculpture

using AI in KREA

March 23, 2026 -- Sculpture Garden

My drawing into a 3D paper sculpture

using AI in KREA Realtime and Tripo,

and broken into 3D parts with SegvinGen

March 10, 2026

March 18, 2026

My gesture drawing

into thin relief sculptures

March 25, 2026

My gesture drawing into transparent see-thru plastic sculpture

March 21, 2026

March 3, 2026

My figure drawing into sculpture

in the style of Bernini

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March 31, 2026

DITHER

From an online dithering program

OP ART SALAD

TURING PATTERNS

combined with AI

Random Midjourney AI

March 4, 2026

Slow animation mural

of my drawing into AI

SURREAL AI Slop

Midjourney Style

De-evolution of leluQ

leluQ 3.0 keeps evolving backwards

Animated Origami

AI Origami comes to life

I discovered FLOW this month, the new video generation program/interface from Google which I can use for free at the moment. I got an email from Google on March 5th, that they are consolidating their image generation programs into FLOW by April 30, 2026.

So I used FLOW and Midjourney to make the AI animation video below. Then I collaborated on YouTube with Adric with this YouTube video, though I don't understand how that "collaboration" was related (though his got over 500 views, verses like 50 for my original video):

Animated Origami

Origami Animals in the Desert

OpenAI introduced MAI-image-2 for image generation on March 19, 2026 -- though I did not use it yet. Apparently it is only a prompt-to-image service, and does not allow me to upload a photo and alter it with AI. Also it was an ordeal to sign into.

OpenAI terminated SORA on March 24, 2026 -- my SORA videos

Midjourney refused my payment once again on March 26, 2026. However KREA didn't have any problem renewing my subscription for another year on March 31, 2026 with the same method of payment (though this is a legacy subscription that they don't offer to new subscribers)

Midjourney put out an alpha version of their new model V8 on March 17, 2026. However they would not let me try it without making a "personalization profile." Moreover Midjourney censors my figure drawings too heavily; and when they don't censor, Midjourney does not do a good job with organic shapes, at least not in my style. I always feel like they are shoehorning all their generations into the same Tim Burton style, or into something similar that dominates all their generations for everyone that uses them, becoming more stale even as the models get more powerful. It makes more sense to subscribe to FLOW at this point rather than spending more money on Midjourney. However Midjourney has been really good about resolving their billing problems in the past, which is one reason I have continued with them...

Adam programed a toy robot that Adric bought, to draw one of my figures:

ARTIE 3000 drawing robot

The ARTIE 3000 was reprogrammed

to draw one of my figure sketches

PRINTS

I went up to Denver to visit Tanya and her sister and we then visited the Denver Botanical Gardens to go to the Mo'PRINT OPEN PORTFOLIO on March 28, 2026 -- with over 100 printmakers listed: