KRЯRL DЯAWINGS: JUNE SUMMARY -- 2025

I made a lot of AI ANIMATIONS after MIDJOURNEY added a video feature on June 18th; and I also kept steady busy printmaking and drawing in June:

KRRRL Midjourney Videos

KRRRL 2025 Playlist

My YouTube Playlists

MIDJOURNEY VIDEOS -- by KRRRL

AI ANIMATION: I breathed life into my drawings with the new Midjourney Video feature:

Odd AI Video Experiments from Midjourney

DRAWCODE

The style of a pen plotter image

transferred to my drawing,

and then animated

TRIPLE: I drew the live model -- altered the drawing with AI -- and laser engraved the image into linoleum to make the print below:

June 16, 2025

PRINTMAKING IN COLOR

My linocut print

from the AI version of my drawing

QUICK TURNAROUND: We have been making quick collaborative tessellation prints, by drawing/gouging into stiff foam with ball point pens:

ALTERNATIVE Tessellations

I gouged a stiff foam tessellation piece,

while drinking coffee at Iconik in Santa Fe

Then we put all the stiff foam plates together to make a big collaborative EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print at Quelab, for the ATOMIC 66 week:

ATOMIC 66 -- Open House at Quelab

The collaborative tessellation print

made at Quelab

We plan to do this quick-turnaround printmaking at the Southwest Print Fiesta 2025 this October in Silver City

MISSING: We temporarily misplaced our Quelab president:

June 25, 2025

Typical Day at Quelab

DRAWING

KRRRL 2025 Playlist

KRRRL Drawings 2025

My YouTube Playlists

Best KRRRL Drawings -- JUNE 2025

June 3, 2025

June 4, 2025

June 10, 2025

June 11, 2025

June 17, 2025

June 24, 2025

June 25, 2025

June 30, 2025

Ideally I want THE DRAWING TO FLOW, around the model as well and over and through the figure -- more than just the contour. That way the flow could integrate the figure and the space.

PRINTMAKING

We kept steady making prints and making printmaking progress:

REMARQUE PRINT WORKSHOP moved from their Central Avenue location closer to downtown Albuquerque (near the South Broadway Cultural Center) this month. Takach moved their presses on June 23rd:

REMARQUE Moving their PRESSES

My Portable Press

in front of a Takach Press

LIVE PRINTMAKING, in both Albuquerque and Santa Fe:

ATOMIC 66 -- Printmaking at QUELAB

ALBUQUERQUE

We made a quick collaborative tessellation print

by gouging stiff foam with ballpoint pens

We used an Alternative Tessellation tile that was generated with an ONLINE PROGRAM:

ALTERNATIVE Tessellations

An alternative aperiodic monotile tessellation shape

to the "hat"

MADA SUMMER CELEBRATION -- Printmaking in Santa Fe

SANTA FE

We printed at the Santa Fe Art Institute on June 14th,

during their MADA Summer Celebration

MADA SUMMER CELEBRATION -- Printmaking in Santa Fe

One BUCKET-o-PRINTS

fits in a DISH RACK

COLOR: Then we reprinted some of the linocuts made for Santa Fe, in color, at Henry Morales' studio on June 19th:

PRINTMAKING IN COLOR

We printed with the Cranfield Caligo Safe Wash colors

in the tubes

PRINTMAKING IN COLOR

Virgil Velasco's Year-of-the-Snake print

came out beautifully in two colors

June 10, 2025

Ellie is already registering to print in multiple colors

FABRIC -- We also used fabric ink to print the Styrofoam plates on an apron -- the same plates that we made for Henry Morales' kids printmaking workshop at the Juan Tablo Library:

June 3, 2025

The Styrofoam plates printed well

on an apron

CUBA meets EL PASO: Francisco Delgado and the Cuban printmakers had opening on the same day in Santa Fe, June 6th. The next day they met each other:

CUBAN PRINTMAKERS

Francisco Delgado met the Cuban printmakers,

Abel Barroso (right) and Marcel Molina (not shown)

TUCSON meets ALBUQUERQUE: JOE MARSHALL and his family passed through Albuquerque and made a quick tessellation print at Quelab on June 28th, on their way back to Tucson:

TUCSON visits ALBUQUERQUE

Joe Marshall printing with a Tortilla Press

at Quelab on June 28th

Joe Marshall has already carved his big

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION linocut

for the big steamroller print this October

during the Southwest Print Fiesta 2025

DISTRIBUTION: We have also been passing out tessellation plates.

We sent a large stack of linoleum tessellation "hats" to Taller Grafica Libre in Zaachila, Oaxaca
I sent two linoleum "hats" to Alice Xinyi Lin in New York City
I sent a stack of stiff foam "hats" to Jackie MaMahon in Missoula, Montana

This freshly laser cut stack of linoleums

went to Oaxaca

AI ART

The BIG AI Innovations -- KREA introduced their own new image making model, and MIDJOURNEY introduced their AI VIDEO feature in June 2025:

KREA

The KREA1 model is more detailed, but generally I prefer what the less detailed older FLUX model on KREA does to my drawings.

KREA 1 -- new AI Model

My original drawing,

the KREA1 version without my AI model,

the old FLUX version with my AI model,

the new KREA1 version with my AI model

KREA 1 -- new AI Model

My drawing altered by Deep Dream Generator,

the KREA FLUX alteration,

the KREA1 alteration

June 10, 2025

I prefer what the less detailed FLUX AI model on KREA

does to my drawings

KREA 1 -- new AI Model

The more detailed KREA1 version,

is too dense, and sucks some of the space and flow from my figures

However I did like the "Modernist Sculpture" AI style model I made for the old KREA FLUX model (based on the previous Leonardo.AI generations, that were in turn based on my drawings and Bernini's sculpture):

KREA AI Model -- MODERNIST SCULPTURE

Made with an AI style model

based on my drawings

and the sculptures of Bernini

June 11, 2025

My drawing blended with Bernini

MIDJOURNEY

MIDJOURNEY came out with an AI VIDEO Generator on June 18, 2025.

MIDJOURNEY Short Animations - by KRRRL

AI Animation in KRRRL Style

Animation in my drawing style

The YouTube video below says essentially, that Midjourney is very good at animating drawings and cartoon styles:

(YouTube): BIG AI News : OpenAI Exposed, Veo3 Beaten, AI Unplugs Itself, AGI Revealed, And More.

May 7, 2010

Odd AI Video Experiments from Midjourney

My old mushroom ink drawing

animated by the new Midjourney video feature

DEEP DREAM GENERATOR

I am still using "AI UPSCALE" in Deep Dream Generator, with good results:

June 4, 2025

My colored Sharpie drawing

"AI UPSCALED" in Deep Dream Generator

On June 12, 2025, Deep Dream Generator released IMGSEARCH, free AI images for downloading

MindAR

CURRENTS NEW MEDIA -- The most interesting exhibit I saw at the CURRENTS exhibition was the Augmented Reality experience by CORRINA ESPINOSA:

CURRENTS NEW MEDIA Exhibition in Santa Fe

Augmented Reality at CURRENTS,

WITHOUT having to download an app

Corrina Espinosa delivered an Augmented Reality experience that DID NOT require the viewer to download an app. Instead she used MindAR and A-Frame, and I am trying her MindAR Tutortial -- and blogged about it.

MORE AI PROGRESS: