Sunday, 8 February 2026

February ABQ ArtWalk 2026

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


Truck sculpture by Mark Padilla


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):

Citlali Delgado had a painting
in the 2024 Border Biennial
at the El Paso Museum of Art

PRINT PACHANGA in El Paso
Citlali Delgado with her big print at the El Paso Museum of Art
during the Print Pachanga of 2023


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A mannequin selling art
during the ABQ Artwalk 


ROZ was showing paintings
at the OT CIRCUS






Becca Elbrecht and Alonso Indacochea
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:



Jeremy Montoya and Jonito
in front of Red Door Bar

VENDORS Center Stage -- PART 1 --
 THE PRINTERS PLANET SF
Jeremy Montoya and Jonito (Jon Sanchez)
at the PRINTERS PLANET in Santa Fe in 2025

Day of the Dead Albuquerque
Jeremy and Jonito selling at the Day of the Dead exhibition
at the South Broadway Cultural Center in 2017

"Prints by Southwest" Opening
Jeremy and Jonito in front of their prints
for our "Print by Southwest" exhibition in 2017
at the South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque

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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


(YouTube): Fine Art Piece "SHORTY" by Mark Padilla 1999
 on Display at Curious Toast in Downtown Albuquerque


REMARQUE OPENING

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

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Tuesday, 3 February 2026

February 3, 2026

We drew at Sir Henry Morales' studio in Albuquerque:


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

The two previous images mixed in KREA

KREA
3D Perspective Effect Photo Editor

KREA
ONLINE EDGE DETECTION
MOSH


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

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

Stable Diffusion
KREA
EzGIF



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

KREA
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:

Henry and Friends at the Juan Tabo Library --
 Albuquerque Exhibition
Henry and Ellie hanging a print
of the Sandia Mountains

Henry and Friends at the Juan Tabo Library --
 Albuquerque Exhibition
The print exhibition at the Juan Tabo Library



Call to mosaic artists


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):

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