July 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.

I altered all the figure drawings below with Deep Dream Generator, and a couple with Petalica Paint as well:

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• John Tollett's drawing from the same session.
• Raye Leith's drawings from the same session

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I used a new "Text to Image" AI program -- VQGAN + CLIP -- to make videos based on my drawings:

Krrrl Drawings Playlist

Krrrl Drawings,

July 13, 2020

• The Collab notebook I used is called :  VQGAN+CLIP (z+quantize method with augmentations) 
• The instructions to use it are at this link
• I got the link from VICE:  AI-Generated Art Scene Explodes as Hackers Create Groundbreaking New Tools
• Article: We asked a new kind of AI art tool to make 'paintings' of Australia
• Glenn Marshall Neural Art examples

Final still from "Toads in the Rain,"

starting with image "G"

Final still from "Toads in the Rain," ,

starting with image "A"

Final still from "Javelinas at a Diner,"

starting with image "A"

I bought this print by

Jose LuisVasquez

 at Hecho a Mano gallery in Santa Fe

Jodie Herrera's new mural

on 5th at Central,

downtown Albuquerque

Someone claims that the Mitsubishi pencils don't break in the pencil sharpener.  I wonder if that is also true for the 6B pencils.  The Blackwing pencils don't seem to break in the pencil sharpener.

Mitsu-bishi pencil

State of my mind

My state of mind on AI

Going Forward

Going Forward looks better in AI

• Instagram:  Juan de Dios Mora interviews Manuel Guerra of Horned Toad Prints

• Instagram:  Manuel Guerra printing at the Rubin Center at UTEP in El Paso  "The Printmakers are the truck drivers of the world" (in that they get the art around everywhere)

• Art Dirt: What’s Going On With Hunter Biden’s Art?

• Martin Campos: Stanek Gallery, Disrupted Realism, Reimagining the Figure

• Deep Dream Generator tutorial