April 13, 2021

The Tuesday Night drawing group of Santa Fe drew together online using Zoom, because of the Covid 19 quarantine.  The model was from the Washington DC area, and someone drew from Philadelphia.

Paint 3D

Blender

EzGif

Animated group of four figures

Group pose

Paint 3D

EzGif

All the drawings I made on April 13th

Playlist of Paint 3D drawings

Blender animations 2021 until March

I encourage people to download and alter all the 3D files below -- 210413__GLB_Decimated (3.56 MB).  They were all decimated into the smallest file size that I could make in 3D Builder (comes free with Windows 10), in a height of about 25 mm (~ inch).

Each image below is of the same figure in three angles, from a 3D file created in Paint 3D.

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

• John Tollett's drawings from the same session
• Holly Grimm's drawing from the same session on Dada NYC

3D PRINTING

 Immediately afterwards I 3D-printed the last drawing of the night at Quelab hackerspace in Albuquerque -- in PLA on an Orion Delta printer (by SeeMeCNC), using Slic3r software:

I printed the last image that I made in the drawing session

(drawing "P")

The print is covered by "support material"

The print was very small,

but it's my first 3D print in Albuquerque

Printed on an Orion delta 3D printer

3D printing room at Quelab

 AUGMENTED REALITY Fantasy

What if one scanned the Bill Barrett sculpture head on, the one in the sculpture garden in front of the Albuquerque Museum.  Would that sculpture work as a "target image," and place some of my fake sculptures around the physical sculpture in Augmented Reality?  Can we do this with the Halo AR or Adobe Aero Mobile apps?

Mock up in front of the Albuquerque Museum --

of my augmented reality drawings/sculptures ("G" and "F")

next to the physical sculpture by Bill Barrett

NOTES:

• The Augmented Reality "sculptures" probably would not throw shadows, and look strange next to the physical sculpture
• The Halo AR app, and it seems all the other Augmented Reality apps, require at least an Android 8 operating system

As an experiment, below is a single 3D figure ("G") in Augmented Reality using the Adobe Aero Mobile app.  The augmented reality file -- 210413_Krrrl_drawing_G.real -- is only 324 KB.  It was created to be 20 cm tall (7.9 inches).

AR Code for the Adobe Aero app,

for seeing the "G" figure

in Augmented Reality

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• Blog: My Fairytale Life by Steven Boone, who drew with us in Santa Fe

Figure drawings references online:

• Line of Action
• Daily Sketch Reference

• I like the animated GIFs made by Esteban Diácono
• I like this animated head created by Simon Romain
• I downloaded Houdini Apprentice 

• Fluid Painter by David Li
• Verve Painter

• Jazza, the YouTube artist, reviews a lot of strange art tools that I'm investigating
• YouTube tutorial:  3D Scanning for Free -- using Meshroom and MeshLab

Desert Triangle and other prints of the Juan Sandoval Jr collection showing at Mexic-Arte

Many of our Desert Triangle Print Carpeta prints are currently showing at Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, as part of the virtual exhibition -- Life and Experiences in the Borderlands.

Jellyfish Colectivo

(on the cover our our catalog)

This is a video of the physical exhibition:  Mexico, the Border and Beyond: Selections from the Juan Antonio Sandoval Jr Collection (December 19, 2020 -- August 22, 2021)

Los Dos

Federico Villalba and Yorch (Jorge Perez)

(lower left and lower middle)

"Cimi" Alvarado

Zeke Peña

(Francisco Delgado lithograph middle bottom)

Ruben Urrea Moreno

Cristina Cardenas

Manuel Guerra 

(lower right-- not his Desert Triangle print)

Two Francisco Delgado lithographs

(right, not from the Desert Triangle)

Francisco Delgado painting

"Cimi" Alvarado and Zeke Peña

(small prints lower left, not Desert Triangle)

I went to the online lecture

 by collector Dr Gilberto Cardenas,

still posted on Facebook

Dr Juan Antonio Sandoval Jr passed away on January 3, 2021, after the exhibition opened.  He donated his print collection to Mexic-Arte, which is the basis for this exhibition. Thank you Juan Sandoval and Mexic-Arte!

I commissioned the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta.

• New York Times article about the murals in El Paso -- Opinion | The Larger Than Life Art Murals of El Paso (April 4, 2021)
• KROD -- New York Times Does a Feature on El Paso Muralists (April 9, 2021)

New Mexico Printmaking Invitational 2021

One of my prints is showing at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque as part of the NEW MEXICO PRINTMAKING INVITATIONAL exhibition, April 9th - May 29th, 2021:

New Mexico Printmaking  Invitational

From the online Zoom opening,

5 - 5:30 PM, April 9th

I submitted the print I did for the Southwest Print Fiesta 2020, which I printed at Remarque Print Workshop.  I used Deep Dream Generator (a free online artificial intelligence program) to create the image, by blending my drawing with the style of Pavel Acevedo's prints, and then cut the result into an acrylic plate on a laser cutter at Quelab.

The print is 8 x 8 inches, which makes it easy to send in the mail, even to Mexico.  The 40 prints from the Southwest Print Fiesta 2020 were sent to participants from Oaxaca and Guadalajara, and they arrived safely.  This size is perfect for passing prints back and forth across the border, and having pop-up print exhibitions in both the US and Mexico.  8 x 8 inches also fits, and looks great, and transports well in inexpensive Walmart frames.

On Instagram

GALLERY

New Mexico Printmaking Invitational

Entering the main gallery 

Pam Wesolek

has a solo show in the adjacent gallery

(she is also in the NM Invitational)

Remarque Print Workshop has posted some of their Printmaker Talks on YouTube.