What are you working on?

[pcj]

This is a portrait of my mother. I still have a lot of of work to do on it. I've
roughly painted everything without any details . I'll work on the details next. They
will probably take me a long time because this is my mother and I want to get it right.
Winsor and Newton Griffin Oil Alkyds on stretched canvas.
Cheers
Patricia

 

[rcleary171]

Your work at this stage is very beautiful. Proportions look perfect. I'm curious as to the formal event she was attending.

 

[Jade]

Nice job Patricia. Your mum looks very graceful.

 

[john]

I was listening to a podcast about Buddhism and they were mentioning certain imagery, and one was of the "monkey mind". How our mind like a monkey jumps here and there. So certain imagery popped into my head. Made me think about painting. I've heard about the new AI tools for creating images so I used Gemini. I entered this prompt....

"create an image of a monkey in a tree by a stream with a small leaf floating on the stream that flows to a lake with mountains on the horizon and a small bird that is flying above "

I also instructed it to make it look like an impressionist oil painting, which it did not do. So I then ran the image through Photosketcher and tried to make it look like an oil painting.
So somehow this is Buddhism matched with AI .

So is this my painting? Presumably I could paint this and then would it be more my painting? It was essentially what I was thinking about. It was my idea. But interestingly, I didn't originally ask for the monkey to look at the bird. The AI had the monkey look at the bird, which is .....like.....wow this AI thing is ...........huge. Put on your seatbelts folks.

 

[Enyaw]

Hello John
It is your idea but not your painting until you use it as a reference and paint it. Then it's yours. That's what I understand. AI is only a tool. I might add, one with a lot of information. Different versions produce vastly different results. If you want it will even give you the paint mixtures you need to make the coloring in a round about way of formulas. I have not tried that but I do find it useful to create reference images from your mind without having to draw them. As with any program, garbage in is garbage out, so you may have to try different ways of versing what you want.