Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

 I wish all my readers a merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

May your home be filled with golden light, To chase away the chill of night. 

May every gift and every word, Be the sweetest things you’ve ever heard!

Talking mushrooms

 

I did the design for this mug a loong time ago. I used Inkscape for it, an open source alternative to adobe illustrator. There are some designs in my Zazzle shop I am still proud of - and this is one of it. You can look at it and think of a story - an old and experienced mushroom telling a younger one about the important part mushrooms play in the forest, for example. 

So you can use this mug to drink your morning tea and meditate a bit about mushrooms or just create your own story in your head. 

Talking mushrooms Mug
by ullahennig

Image to prompt - another way to use your old photos

 

The image on the left is an old photo, taken many years ago during a vacation in the Provence in the South of France.

I decided to play with it and uploaded the photo to generateprompt.ai in order to get a prompt for it. I got the following prompt:

"A historic Gothic-style church with an ornate facade and tall, pointed windows, featuring a tall, spire-topped steeple with a weather vane at the top. The church is situated in a European city square, with surrounding old buildings and a clear blue sky overhead. In the foreground, there is a fountain with a rectangular basin, and a few children playing in the square, along with two women walking nearby. The scene is bright and sunny, highlighting the architectural details of the church and the lively atmosphere of the square."

I then went to piclumen.ai and insert it. Here is the result:

Of course, the prompt you get when you upload the image can be changed - you might prefer a painting in a certain style, or leave out the fountain, or change the history setting. 

I am a traditonal artist and I love AI Art!

For quite some time I have been creating traditional art (mostly art done with alcoholbased markers) and AI Art. There have been days when I focussed on AI Art, and days when I focussed on traditional art. Yes, traditional art takes longer, I usually need one week for preparing the image, selecting the colors, colorblocking and then shading with inktense pencils and adding the background with acrylic ink. 

The image on the left however is the result of directly combining a traditionally painted piece with using AI to edit it. 

First of all I was not so happy with the result. It was okay, but does not belong to the pieces I am particularly proud of. So I was curious whether AI would come up with something more interesting when I asked it to turn the style of the piece into Art Deco style. And here it is!