Kirsten's drawing
from this session
ECLIPSE
We had a partial eclipse about 12:30 PM in Albuquerque on April 8, 2024. The light dimmed a bit, but the most impressive thing was this big ring around the sun, in muted rainbow colors:
THRIVE
Tuesday, 9 April 2024
April 8, 2024
Drawn at Art Buddies in Albuquerque:
I checked out the Arts Thrive exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum on April 7, 2024, and noticed that I knew a lot of the artists:
Monday, 8 April 2024
PRINT UPDATE -- April 2024
There are a few print things boiling at the moment:
BIG INK
The biggest comes this Saturday and Sunday, April 13th and 14th, 2024, when BIG INK brings their BIG PRESS to FUSION in Albuquerque, 9 AM - 5 PM both days.
This is the progress on our collaborative BIG INK print so far -- by Virgil Velasco, Ellie Weadock and Henry Morales:
The progress so far
on the BIG INK collaborative print
Julianna Kirwin brought BIG INK to town, and also finished her big woodcut:
BIG INK woodblock
Here is a list of the SWEET 16 printers and printing teams, for the BIG INK printing sessions in Albuquerque on April 13th and 14th, 2024, 9 AM -5 PM:
April 13th
- HELEN SHAFER GARCIA: 27″ x 35″
- OLIVIA BRADSTREET: 30″ x 40″
- PETER M MARTIN: 40″ x 41″
- BUCKET EXHIBITIONS (Henry Morales, Virgil Velasco, Ellie Weadock): 28" x 48"
- LYNN LEAHY: 30″ x 40″
- STEPHANIE WEINER:36″ x 48″
- JULIE SOLA: 36″ x 48″, Two Additional Prints
- RACHAEL BROWN: 32″ x 48″
- JULIANNA KIRWIN: 24″ x 60″
April 14th
- OFFCENTER COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT (Ashley Kincaid, September Benson, and Alden Sobol): 36″ x 48″
- OFFCENTER COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT II (Mika Maloney, Zimmy Zimmer-Chu, Dre Rivera): 36″ x 48″
- THE CROOKED MAN PRESS TEAM (Christopher Bardey, Adrian Aguirre, and Francisco Delgado): 36″ x 72″
- JENNIFER JAMES
- JANET SHAGAM: 24″ x 40″
- CHRISTOPHER ROBERTS
Peter M Martin proofed his BIG INK woodblock with a rubbing stone:
JOHN TOLLETT
Meanwhile John Tollett continues to laser engrave linoleum at MAKE SANTA FE, and make relief prints:
John Tollett previously made a two-color linocut print, from a laser engraved linoleum based on my portrait drawing:
Albuquerque
The PRINTERS PLANET print market is coming to OFF CENTER in Albuquerque on May 25th, 2024. REGISTRATION due by May 1st, 2024:
NEXO ENTRE RAICES
Last month, on March 23, 2024, I went to the panel discussion for the NEXO ENTRE RAICES exhibition at the El Paso Museum of Art:
Later that night he printed with Joe Marshall at the Snakebite Creation Space in Tucson -- at 174 E Toole Ave, where I had a studio at Pleasure World, and which also housed the old YayBig gallery:
Sunday, 7 April 2024
STORIES
I made animated GIFs with EzGIF to suggest mini-stories (sorta like Rémi Lascault) -- by piecing together a bunch of AI images that I generated in Midjourney and Leonardo.AI:
STORY of the DESERT
Animated GIF
HIGHWAY STORY
Animated GIF
The STILLS
STORY of the DESERT
I made some hologram slideshows of the same images for the Looking Glass Portrait display -- by creating some "depth map diptychs" with RGB-Depthfiy:
Story_of_the_Desert_hologram.ZIP (3.1 MB)
HIGHWAY STORY
Not in the original story
I made some hologram slideshows of the same images for the Looking Glass Portrait display -- by creating some "depth map diptychs" with RGB-Depthfiy:
Highway_Story_hologram.ZIP (2.4 MB)
The AI ART on the
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Other AI
I recorded this coyote cry in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains in March 2021 -- and then used AI to convert it to music using Stable Audio:
Coyote cries into music
using AI
- (YouTube) There Was A TON of AI News This Week!
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