Thursday, 2 July 2026

July 1, 2026

I drew at FUSION in Albuquerque:

Kevin Cochran



























*****

Not from this drawing session,
a gesture completed from my imagination

The abstract drawing below is from out of my imagination, completely original, and in my own personal style:



However when I uploaded it to animate, Midjourney claimed that it was "THIRD PARTY CONTENT." Their filters think that someone else did it. Who?

Our filters detected potential third party content,
so we are keeping this generation private to you.


Midjourney generated an animation anyhow

A wider screen grab
of the "censoring"

Download: "260701N.GLB" (262.75 KB)




Adric AI'ed himself and sent me this:

with a little help from AI Steroids!

So I had to animate:





Mexican art residencies:
  • Adam gave me remote access to the VRAM computer at Quelab on July 2nd, 2026 so I can use TripoSplat to generate 3D objects from 2D images

Tuesday, 30 June 2026

JUNE SUMMARY -- 2026

In June I drew at both the morning and evening figure sessions in Santa Fe; blogged about the PRINTERS PLANET in Taos and started a ALEBRIJE print project; went to the CURRENTS NEW MEDIA exhibition in Santa Fe and installed 2D-to-3D programs on the powerful computer at Quelab.








Gary working on the weekly
Art LinkLetter





DRAWINGS







PRINTMAKING




PRINTERS PLANET TAOS

I caught a ride up to Taos on June 20, 2026 for the PRINTERS PLANET print market, and BLOGGED about it:


Dana Zed, current president of the California Society of Printmakers,
was one of the residents at Remarque

Virgil Velasco made a print drying rack



PRINT EXCHANGES

Ellie finished her print edition for the IPE 2026 -- the International Print Exchange in the UK:


Ellie Weadock  also finished her print for the Southwest Print Fiesta Print Exchange 2026 (not due until September):





AI ART

  • I signed up for a year's subscription on MESHY on June 22, 2026









Download: "twowomen.GLB" (775.20 KB)


I'm all FAKE these days




ANTHROPIC DRAMA

Claude 



EXHIBITIONS

NOE BARNETT at his opening

NOE BARNETT was also featured in the Albuquerque Museum in the exhibition -- The Woods Before Sunrise: Environment and Place in New Mexico's Black Contemporary:

NOE BARNETT was also featured at the 
Albuquerque Museum 

Karsten Creightney also has a lot of work


at the Mothership Alumni,
featuring this great piece about the Barelas barrio


Mark Archuelta showed his latest film 
at the Guild Cinema on June 7, 2026







This Cooper's Hawk attacked me
on the UNM campus next to the printmaking department