August 15, 2023

We drew at Sir Henry Morales' studio in Albuquerque:

Automatic 1111

 Automatic 1111 prompt: 

drawing of a nude woman

lying down with her back to us

Automatic 1111

 Automatic 1111 prompt: 

drawing of a nude woman lying down in the style of Mucha

Automatic 1111

 Automatic 1111 prompt: 

drawing of a nude woman lying down in the style of Mucha

PRINT

LASER ENGRAVED

I laser engraved a drawing from August 7, 2023 at Quelab as I need an image to print for the Southwest Print Fiesta 2023 Print Exchange:

August 7, 2023

Laser engraving at Quelab

Using the regular settings -- 150 speed, 80 min and max power -- was enough to engrave the figure -- but also cut a rectangle out of the 6x6 inch linoleum.  I believe this might have happened because the laser raster cut at a 45 degree angle, instead of back and forth:

The laser engraved and cut image

We printed this laser engraved image after the drawing session.  While I liked some of the line quality, the figure looks lost on the 8x8 inch paper:

Henry cut the figure down to get a cleaner print, as there would be no dead space around the figure to ink (which prints as smudges):

We also inked the surrounding linoleum, that leftover after the laser engraving:

Both Henry and I liked this print better, because the surrounding black pushes the ephemeral figure forward.  But the result was still rather dry:

Ultimately this print needs more work.  We have a good start, and may be able to salvage the print with a second color.  However there is no time to experiment as the 45 edition of prints is due on September 1st in Silver City.

OTHER PRINTS

Cassandra added some brush ink lines to a failed print, made with Styrofoam at Henry Morales' print workshop at the library in Tijeras on June 3rd.  It actually came out very nicely:

Cassandra added brush inked lines 

to the texture of the Styrofoam print

from a failed print

ALSO

Henry framed the print that Virgil made at this studio the previous week:

A framed master print

Virgil pulled this print

the week before, on August 8th, 2023

Virgil's print hung

next to Henry's prints

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