Last October Marker Painting

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This is my latest marker painting, and it will be the last October painting. In October I managed to create four Marker paintings, and I am quite satisfied with the fact that I managed to keep up with doing traditional art in addition to creating digital AI art. I also managed to do color swatches with the new markers I bought. So I can easily select one of my selfmade color palettes and look for the markers which will go with this palette. As I wrote in one of my earlier posts, you can easily create your own color palette by uploading an image to coolors.com. 

Using a one word prompt

 

It's amazing what AI Generators come up with when you insert just one word as a prompt.

I used Microsoft Copilot and only the word "trick-or-treat". The result was the image on the left. It even had the words spelt correctly - which is something AI Generators had a problem with for quite some time. 

I must admit that I like being surprised - as much as I like getting AI doing exactly what I want them to do...

Latest Alcoholmarker painting

I finished this abstract painting yesterday. I had done a lot more planning with this one: In a first step I drew shapes on a piece of paper. I then selected the shapes I wanted to have on the painting, grabbed my light table and arranged the shapes on the paper. 

In a second step I went through my color swatches, went for a certain color combination and selected the markers which fit into the combo.

The rest was coloring and, at the very end, shading with inktense pencils. 
 

What to do with your AI Images?

I have been using my AI images for card design, for designs on my Zazzle store and I have been putting the images into frames and put them on the walls of my flat. Regarding the latter there is one problem: Here in Germany you do not find frames for square (1:1) images easily. But I have a lot of very nice AI images which are in the 1:1 format, and it would be a shame not to display them. 

Yesterday I suddenly rememberd that I have quite a few hard foamed panels. So I fetched one of them, grabbed one of my 1:1 images and mounted it on the panel. 

Fixing a thread on the back of the panel allows you to hang the panel on your wall. 

One tip: You have to avoid to apply too much pressure while cutting the board. Rather be patient and move the cutter to and fro as long as it needs to cut the board...

Edit old photos with Grok AI

I took this photo in 2010 when I was on vacation on the Darß together with my cousin. It shows a beach of the Baltic sea. The photo in itself is nothing spectacular. 

I have been using Grok AI for some time now. Grok allows not only the creation of images via inserting a prompt, but also the upload of images and the editing of them.

So I uploaded the above photo and wrote the following prompt:

beach at moonlight, rendered in the style of Daniel Merriam

You can see the result on the image on the right. 

By the way, Grok still allows to mention certain artists' names...