Saturday, 29 March 2025

Steamroller EXQUISITE TESSELLATIONS

We are looking forward to the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA this October 10th - 13th in Silver City.



The ultimate would be to make big EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints with a STEAMROLLER.  We can order large 36 x 36 inch sheets of linoleum from Dick Blick.  

Then we can laser cut them down into -- 21 inch wide by 15 inch high "hat" shapes (the width/height dimensions I figured out with the "THE HAT" calculator).  Four of those would fit inside a 40 x 40 inch sheet of large paper.

Four big "hat" shapes would look like this when put together:

The design of four "hat" linoleum tiles
in a square shape

The basic idea would be to get a big "hat" linoleum carved in Tucson, one carved in El Paso, and another carved in Albuquerque to make a big steamroller print from the Southwest -- echoing the DESERT TRIANGLE PRINT CARPETA project that started 10 years earlier.



OTHER PRINT NEWS

Ellie Weadock is pulling spit-bite prints:




March 28 -- Portrait

The portrait session on Friday nights is free -- FRIDAY NIGHT FACES -- but the artists had to give their drawings to the sitter. This session was at Art Buddies in Albuquerque:








PREVIOUS PORTRAITS:

Friday, 28 March 2025

March 27, 2025

We drew at the Edith Bunker in Albuquerque, with Monty Singer and Brian Gonzales:

AI variations of my painting below
in the style of Diego Velázquez














AI VARIATIONS

Generated with Stable Diffusion:
  • model: xsmerge_v31InSafetensor.safetensors [6eb26bbaaf]

prompt: "woman posing on a couch
 in the style of Diego Velázquez"
prompt: "woman posing on a couch
 in the style of Alma-Tadema"

prompt: "woman posing on a couch
 in the style of Egon Schiele"

prompt: "woman posing on a couch
 in the style of Diego Rivera"

prompt: "woman posing on a couch
 in the style of Pontormo"

prompt: "woman posing on a couch
 in the style of hokusai"

prompt: "woman posing on a couch
 in the style of Beardsley"

prompt: "woman posing on a couch
 in the style of R Crumb"

prompt: "woman posing on a couch
in the style of black and white linocut prints"


In 2022 I asked AI to summon various artists previously in the following posts:


"AI Upscaled" in DEEP DREAM GENERATOR:


Wednesday, 26 March 2025

March 25, 2025

Drawn at Art Buddies in Albuquerque:



Switching the color channels
with XnView/Image/Swap

prompt: "woman sitting on the floor
 with one arm out in the style of Michelangelo"

prompt: "woman sitting on the floor
 with one arm out in the style of Michelangelo"

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Switching the color channels
with XnView/Image/Swap

prompt: "woman sitting on the floor
 with one arm out in the style of Michelangelo"

prompt: "woman sitting on the floor
 with one arm out in the style of Michelangelo"

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Switching the color channels
with XnView/Image/Swap

prompt: "woman sitting on the floor
 with one arm out in the style of Michelangelo"

prompt: "woman sitting on the floor
 with one arm out in the style of Michelangelo"



Tuesday, 25 March 2025

March 24, 2025

Drawn at Art Buddies in Albuquerque:


Animation of the colored Sharpie drawings


STABLE DIFFUSION
local installation

Animation of the Stable Diffusion generations
based on tonight's colored Sharpie drawings


At Quelab Adam installed STABLE DIFFUSION on a computer and gave me access to generate images remotely.  I uploaded all my colored Sharpie drawings below and generated new fake AI drawings -- with the prompt: "Colored line drawing of a woman sitting on the floor" -- by using an AI model based on my drawings with Control Net:

The STABLE DIFFUSION interface --
prompt: "Colored line drawing of a woman sitting on the floor"






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I also uploaded the following two drawings to Stable Diffusion with a prompt like "standing woman" and generated more AI art images:














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FURTHER VARIATIONS
of the first colored drawing

The red channel
from the first colored Sharpie drawing
on this blog post



The below are further variations of the first Stable Diffusion generation: