Creating Color palettes with AI images

 I am an AI artist and a traditional artist who focuses on abstract art. Colors and shapes are an important part of abstract art, and so I am always looking for color palettes. There are hundreds of color palettes on the web, but most of them are not the kind of what I am looking for. 

So I was very glad when I found coolors.co, a great online tool to create palettes from your own images (you can do way more with this tool, by the way) 

Here's an example:

The landscape image was created with an AI Image Generator. I uploaded it, and then I could select certain parts of the image which display the colors I would like to have in the palette.

This can be done easily with a free account; with a pro account you can get the hex numbers of each color, in case you need them for digital painting. 

Doing Art inspite of the Heat

At the moment we are having a heat wave in Germany. It was so hot inside my flat that I could not imagine doing something with Acrylics. So I grabbed my alcoholbased markers and painted with them in the morning, or in te early evening. The good thing with markers is that I do not have to prepare my table in the living room, and I don't have to clean the brushes afterwards. And of course, there is no quick paint drying!

Robin "The Cat" Hood

 

As you might know you can use Grok to help you with prompts. So I asked:

I am an AI artist and I want to create an image depicting a cat disguised as robin hood. Can you provide me with a prompt, please?

Grok answered with:

A whimsical, highly detailed digital painting of an anthropomorphic cat dressed as Robin Hood, standing in a lush Sherwood Forest. The cat has sleek tabby fur, a mischievous grin, and wears a green feathered cap, a leather quiver with arrows slung over its shoulder, and a flowing emerald cloak. It holds a finely crafted bow in one paw, poised confidently atop a tree branch, with dappled sunlight filtering through the leaves. The background features a medieval forest setting with soft mist, scattered gold coins, and a hint of a distant castle.

So I used this prompt and asked Grok to create an image. You can see the result on top of the page on the left hand side. 

Not bad, but I was curious and wanted to find out what Bing would do with the prompt. Here's one of the four images Bing created:

As you can see, there are similarities and differences between the two images. 

Acrylics and Inktense pencils

I love to try out new things, even running the danger of damaging artwork I'd already done (at least, I got a scan of it!).

This is the scan of a painting I'd done with acrylics. I was quite satisfied with the composition and the choice of colors, but when I looked at it I had the feeling that it needed some shading. 

I remembered that I had gone over my marker paintings with inktense pencils and quite liked the effect. So why not try using inktense pencils over acrylics? I did a quick search on YouTube, and could not find anybody who'd tried it. So I had to experiment.

And this is the result:

Well, it seemed to work. It is definitely not as flat as the painting above. And I definitely want to keep on with the combination of acrylics and inktense pencils. 

Abstract Art piece, created with Acrylics

This was actually the last piece I managed to paint in May. It was done with Acrylics again - liquid acrylics and "normal" acrylics out of the tube.

Now we have the 1st June. The first half of the year has been quite creative, not only regarding the creation of AI images, but also regarding the painting of "traditional" art. I actually managed for the first time to get a nice balance between those two kinds of art creation. I hope to keep this balance as the year will go on.
 

Watercolor inks and Stabilo pens

I had bought them years ago - used them a bit and then kept them in a brown cardboard box. At the time I had bought them Stabilo pens only had a bullet tip (Stabilo 68 pen) or could be bought in the same colors as fineliners. They come in many colors, are dyebased and therefore not lightfast.

The Ecoline and Colorex watercolor inks which I am using are not lighfast eigher. They are very intensive when you use them without watering down. I wanted to find out how much I could thin them down by adding water and was surprised by the results: I used left over ink from the day before, added some drops of water and still got some color on the paper. I then let it dry, then placed ink from the stabilo pens on selected spots and used my waterbrush to dissolve the ink. Nice! 
 

Watercolor inks and colored pencils

This is my fourth painting of May. Actually I feel a bit proud because I have been able to paint regularly in March, April und up to now in May as well. I am still creating images with the use of AI, but I keep up a good balance between doing traditional and digital art.

With this painting I added colored pencils to my watercolor ink painting. I always like to try out new things - so I grabbed my colored pencils and finished up the painting with them.