Snake Silk Screen with the Laser Cutter at QUELAB

Virgil Velasco sent me this image a while back, as I promised to laser cut it into silk screen. The image was too small, so I enlarged it with Deep Dream Generator.  Then I laser cut it into silk screen at Quelab before the drawing session at Henry Morales' studio, on April 7, 2026:

OP ART SALAD

The snake drawing by Virgil Velasco

Image inside of 4x4 inches

On the laser cutter at Quelab

In the Lighburn Software

Speed 150

Power 30

The deeper settings that worked

I first laser cut into a larger metal screen. Though I did not print with this, it seemed to come out worse, as the laser discolored everything within the inscribed 6x6 inch square.  I believe this was part of the settings in Lightburn (which I changed later):

6x6 inch image

I have done this a couple of times before:

• CULMINATION -- Drawing, AI, Printmaking
• Laser Cutting -- into Metal Silk Screen
• Laser Cutting an image into Silk Screen for printing
• Silk-screening with newspaper laser cutouts

• I also laser cut a 6x6 inch linoleum with this same image

QUELAB

First meeting of the new Board at Quelab, on Easter April 5, 2026:

Rebecca, Daryl

Adam, Sheri, Mitchell, Adric