KRЯRL DЯAWINGS

I drew at FUSION in Albuquerque:

Kevin Cochran

KREA

*****

Not from this drawing session,

a gesture completed from my imagination

Midjourney

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KREA

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AM I NOT ORIGINAL?

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

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Midjourney generated an animation anyhow

A wider screen grab

of the "censoring"

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Adric AI'ed himself and sent me this:

Adric on Fire,

with a little help from AI Steroids!

So I had to animate:

Midjourney

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Adam printed this out

on the large printer at Quelab

Print Pachanga events

at the Falstaff in El Paso

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

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.

June 1, 2026

I like how this animation feels transparent

¡ALBUЯ-BRIJES!

The 8 huge Oaxaca Alebrije sculptures

are in Albuquerque until July 17, 2026

¡ALBUЯ-BRIJES!

We started an Alebrije Print Project --

where AI colors and turns the prints into 3D,

and we use that 3D object in Augmented Reality

2D to 3D -- Gaussian Splats and GLBs

TRIPO put out an easy to use/install program

to make 3D Gaussian Splats from 2D images

TAOS -- PRINTERS PLANET 2026

This space cat can't resist

licking it's fishbowl helmet

THE PRINTERS PLANET -- TAOS 2026

Tanya riding her scorpion print

June 1, 2026

On a rooftop in downtown fantasy Albuquerque

June 9, 2026

ChatGPT

Gary working on the weekly

Art LinkLetter

SONNY ROLLINS, saxophone colossus, passed on May 25, 2026 -- he was the last living jazz musician featured in the 1958 photo "A Great Day in Harlem," and played on a Rolling Stones song
ENRIQUE FLORES, printmaker of Oaxaca, passed on June 2, 2026
DAVID HOCKNEY, English painter, passed on June 11, 2026

DRAWINGS

KRRRL 2026

Best KRRRL Drawings of June 2026

June 2, 2026

June 9, 2026

June 10, 2026

June 16, 2026

June 17, 2026

June 24, 2026

June 26, 2026

June 30, 2026

Long 3 hour drawing

June 29, 2026

I really like how AI

translates my drawings into dots

June 9, 2026

We had three live models during Kirsten's summer party --

this drawing is by Barbara Endicott

Kirsten is like the Albuquerque version of Mabel Dodge Luhan for all the artists and models she brings together

PRINTMAKING

My inner circle of printmakers is joining me in an Alebrije Print Project. I asked them to make a small 8x8 inch print of an Alebrijes, like the 8 big ones in downtown Albuquerque from June 1st to July 17, 2026. Then I planed to scan them, color and turn them into 3D with AI, and use that 3D result for Augmented Reality:

ALBUЯ-BRIJES!

Virgil Velasco made the first print

for the Alebrije Print Project --

enhanced with Augmented Reality

Virgil's print enhanced with AI and put into

AUGMENTED REALITY

PRINTERS PLANET TAOS

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

TAOS -- PRINTERS PLANET 2026

The UNM Printmaking Department tent

TAOS -- PRINTERS PLANET 2026

The market closed

when the wind blew over the main tent

REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP had their Print Residents from June 1st-7th, 2026:

JUNE 5, 2026 -- ARTWALK

Dana Zed, current president of the California Society of Printmakers,

was one of the residents at Remarque

THE PRINTERS PLANET -- TAOS 2026

Virgil Velasco made a print drying rack

that uses marbles to hold the prints

THE PRINTERS PLANET -- TAOS 2026

Francisco Delgado was featured

in a Glasstire article about Texas Printmakers

PRINT EXCHANGES

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

June 17, 2026

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

I signed up for the Southwest Print Fiesta Print Exchange 2026 on June 30, 2026

AI ART

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

I installed TripoSplat in ComfyUI on Adam's AI com with 16 Gigs of VRAM on June 25, 2026. It was easy to install, works fast, and generates great 3D Gaussian Splats in the SPZ format. It also generates GLB objects from the Gaussian Splats, but those tend to have pinholes in them and worse. This feature however, is labeled as "Experimental."

2D to 3D -- Gaussian Splats and GLBs

3D from 2D --

Gaussian Splat

Adam also gave me remote access to the program on July 2, 2026, so that I can generate 3D Gaussian Splats from the coffee house.

MIDJOURNEY finally gave me access to their new v 8.1 model when they made it the default model on June 11, 2026 (it has been out since April 14th). However it has a Kate Moss heroin chic feel, more "cinematic" I guess, which I don't like. So after comparing all the Midjourney models -- I am using the previous v 7 model now for AI generations:

MIDJOURNEY Version Variations

I compared the new v 8.1 model with the older models

in Midjourney

I enjoyed going to the CURRENTS NEW MEDIA exhibition in Santa Fe on June 13, 2026. I always learn something new, like MINDAR from last year's exhibition:

CURRENTS NEW MEDIA 2026 -- FAKE and REAL

I trolled the CURRENTS NEW MEDIA exhibition

with my Augmented Reality figures

June 17, 2026

My fake sculpture exhibition with CROCODILES

in a Cenote in the Yucatan

June 9, 2026

I generated this scene of statues protecting an adobe hotel,

from the poses at Kirsten's annual summer party

June 16, 2026

My fake AI sculptures

look like a 60s ad for the Santa Fe Art Institute

June 10, 2026

Vance Engraving Effect

I like how AI transformed my doodle

into an engraving

FREESTYLING in AI all the way to 3D:

June 9, 2026

Freestyling with AI

gave me these sculptural figures

KREA

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The sculptural women into 3D

I'm really pushing The FAKE these days with AI:

THE PRINTERS PLANET -- TAOS 2026

I'm all FAKE these days

Art is getting really weird these days. It seems that the computer is taking over, and the progressive art creation tools lean more towards coding than say drawing (like in a Photoshop environment):

KREA